Classmates

"Did you ever love me?" I asked him once.

He said nothing. Just looked at me with those cold gray eyes, controlling my every breath.

"I love you," he mouthed three years later—drowning, bleeding, smiling—as he shoved me toward the rescue boat and sank like a stone.


For two years, Summer Hayes believed her billionaire husband married her as revenge. Cold touches. Suffocating control. Si...

I gave my best friend my kidney and he fell in love with someone else.
He is not my boyfriend.
Even though I've seen his lips on mine, even though he gets jealous, even though he acts like he owns my heart—he has never asked me out.
I've loved him for as long as I can remember.
I know everything about him. I take care of him. I never forget his birthday, his habits, or the way he smiles when he th...