The Fall's Quiet Reckoning

Hating Knox Aldrich should have been simple.

He was cold, cruel, and calculating, holding me in his gaze like I belonged to him even as he built a life with someone else.

I used that hurt to start over at a new school, with new plans and a future without him, and for a stretch it seemed to work.

Knox keeps what he believes is his, though, and he tracked me into the life I was trying to make, watching and following as if he had a right to stay.

I want to despise him for it, but he is more than a threat to my heart; he is carrying dark secrets capable of shaking everything I thought I understood.

We kept looking, and the truth we found still cannot rival the forbidden, toxic force of us, because starting over was never the ending—only Knox, the secrets, and the fire waiting underneath.