Ruin Me Twice

He told me I was his before I ever agreed to it. I let him believe it anyway.

Colt McAllister found me in the wrong seat, in a lecture hall the size of an airport terminal, and decided within four seconds that he wasn't leaving.

I should have known then.

A boy who chases that hard doesn't know how to stop-even when stopping is the only thing that could save you both.

He didn't just want me.

He wanted to keep me.

And when his family's darkest secret detonated both our lives, he shut me out instead of letting me in, disappearing the same way his father once disappeared on everyone who loved him.

So I left.

Three states away. New school. New life.

Then I met Noah Brooks.

He was insufferable before he was anything else-sharp-tongued, infuriatingly composed, and determined to challenge me at every turn. He taught me something Colt never could:

That love can ask instead of assume.

That wanting someone isn't the same thing as owning them.

That patience can be its own kind of heartbreak.

Then Colt came back.

Now I'm caught between the boy who taught me how dangerous love can be when it's confused with possession and the boy who's teaching me what it looks like when trust is earned instead.

And beneath it all, a story I can't stop chasing-a housing scandal, a cover-up, and a betrayal that will shatter everything I thought I'd rebuilt.

Because sometimes the hardest choice isn't who you love.

It's who you become.

Ruin Me Twice is a dark, emotional college romance about first love, second chances, devastating betrayals, and the difference between being wanted and being chosen.

Some people teach you how to fall in love. Others teach you how to choose yourself.