DARE-TO-LOVE-TRUTH-AND-DARE-DUET-COLLECTION-by-Lylah-James-pdfarchive

To myself? I was just the boy trapped in the closet.
Hate was cold fire; there was no warmth from it.
My eyes fluttered close. Before I became lost in the
space between sleep and consciousness, a mouthy girl with
pretty brown eyes and black hair came to haunt me.
I slowly smiled.
Fuck, she was something else.
Lila
THE NEXT DAY, I walked through the halls of Berkshire as if I
was on display. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought
I forgot to wear clothes this morning, but no, I was
definitely dressed. Their eyes burned into the back of my
head, and the whispers followed me. They made no attempt
to hide their curiosity; some of them – Maddox’s fangirls --
even looked at me with open distaste.
Shit. Now what?
Riley popped next to me out of nowhere and gripped my
arm. “You owe me an explanation,” she hissed in my ear.
Confused, I looked down at her. “Why? What did I do?”
“The rumor,” she started, but then trailed off as her gaze
skirted over my head. Riley scowled hard, and I turned
around to see Maddox and Colton walking through the
entrance.
I stayed rooted on the spot as he sauntered toward me.
My brain told me to run. The look on his face was anything
but nice. Mischief glimmered in his blue eyes, and a smirk
twisted his full lips. Uh-oh.
The hallway became quiet, as if awaiting a long, overdue
dramatic scene. I could feel everyone holding their breaths,