Luca My life has always boiled down to two words: be good. Be good because your grandparents didn’t have to take you in when your dad abandoned you. Be good so you can get a scholarship for college.
Be good… and don’t tell anyone what happened freshman year. But when Maddox Levine tells me I’m good, all the stress, all the worry… it fades away.
Being good for him makes me feel like I’m floating… but wanting to be good for my professor… That might be the thing that makes me fall.
Maddox I’ve spent twenty years ignoring my past, never allowing my frozen heart to thaw for anyone. I’ve kept most people at arm’s length, my attitude ensuring no one gets too close.
Then I meet Luca and he cracks something inside me that’s been locked up for decades. He’s soft… innocent… sweet. More than I deserve. But that doesn’t stop me from wanting.
Or showing him a whole new world.
