Purity: A Friends-to-Lovers College Romance

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I lift my hand and run it through her long dark hair. “I’ll tell you every detail when I get home.” Because I’m living an incredibly passive life, and that has to stop, because it’s not really living.” If I wasn’t so riled up, I would laugh. What would she think if she knew the depravity of my thoughts? From the moment she first told me about her bizarre purity pledge, I’ve fantasized about breaking it. He nods slowly, his eyes growing absent as he glances around the lawn. “What does this mean? Are you really going to…get drunk and make out with someone?” Well, it was too long for me.” He sets his hand on my shoulder before turning to the two girls. “Do you guys remember my best friend, Livvy? She was a year behind us at San Marcos.”

His gaze snaps to my face, and his eyes grow wide. Even in the dusk, I can make out the brush of pink over his cheekbones. This story is beautifully written, clear and well paced plot progression, characters you can't help but fall in love with. Lots of dirty talk, sexual tension and steamy scenes and an overall sense that these two love each other and just need to be 100% honest with everyone but especially themselves.

You’re being snotty.” I take a step in her direction. “I was going to invite you to hang out with us in my room so I could give you guys all the details about my conversation with Cole, but I’m not going to if this is how you’re going to act. Is that what you want? Do you want me to keep things between me and Mari from now on?”

Brandon was shown God’s path by Hector, Mari’s father. And Hector and Brandon are best friends. He’s 12 years her senior and feels a lot of shame about his desires for her from grivences with his father. He’s struggling to meet the ideal of who he thinks he should be. A strong, assertive woman would tell him how she feels, but I’m not there yet. “I’ll think about,” I say, “but I think this is good for now.” I lift up the list. But sometimes the deepest bonds are forged through pain, and for Theo and Lily, holding on to the threads of their connection might do more than ease their broken hearts. It may finally make them whole.Because I’m worried it might change things between us,” I burst out. “I’m worried that I’ll scare you, and you’ll never be able to see me the same way again.” It’s not that I’ve never been interest in partying. I was just afraid. I thought it was all sinful.” I’ll tell you everything when we get to my house. If my sister is still up, I want to be able to tell her too.” And I hate every second of it. At the rate my life is playing out, under the strict rule of my parents, politicians and housewives will be my future. I glance into my living room where two of my friends are passed out. They won’t notice if I leave now. It’s only midnight. I have plenty of time to find someone at a bar, especially if I work fast.

I’m at 60% and the whole book has just been so repetitive. He wants her. He touches her. He’s sorry. It was a mistake. It won’t happen again. He wants her. He goes a little further this time. He’s sorry. It was a mistake. It won’t happen again. Rinse and repeat. Oh my God, Livvy. Hot does not do him justice. I want to corrupt him. Fantasizing about it is the only thing that gets me through the sermon.”

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I shake my head sharply. “He needs me emotionally, but he doesn’t want me sexually. That’s not the kind of love I want. I want someone who can’t keep his hands off me.”