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Prologue

Cameron

I closed o to class, but there he was, like a brick wall in front ofso much older, so erous, an asshole and a troublemaker, yet he made my skin flush every time he came near me He’d pushed up the sleeves of his unifor his shirtsleeves over the loose, and he hadn’t bothered to button his shirt all the way I had to look away from the exposed slice of tanned skin and clear et by”

“Hold up, genius,” he said, placing a hand on h to i kind—and most weren’t—they would refer to ht I was a genius That was how I’d gotten to St Margaret’s Natural intelligence plus some hard work

“I don’t want to be late” For soelo told the rest of the school bullies to back off He said if I needed to be put in my place, he would do it He’d occasionally teaseme “Genius” or “Nerd Boy” One time he threw an apple core into my locker as he walked by, but h I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, for him to say I owed him

Angelo huffed “Why the fuck do you care? You got As in everything, and all the teachers love you You could tell the, and they’d believe you”

Unlike Angelo as on pretty much every teacher’s shit list If it wasn’t for all the ave to the school, he’d have been kicked out months before

“Sit next to me in math,” he demanded

“Devil always sits next to you”

He grinned “Nice to see you noticed”

If this were an alternate universe, I would think he was flirting with ht, and no ay, I wasn’t stupid enough to be open about it Besides, if a guy like Angelo was actually flirting with

I knehere everyone sat in every class I knew s easily I always had But Angelo didn’t need me to explain that to him