Ronan Vale has always been around. Your brother's friend. The guy who practically lives at your house. The tattooed biker everyone at school knows. The boy who dates a different girl every other week and somehow never catches feelings. He's loud when he's hurting. Reckless when he's thinking too much. And allergic to anything remotely resembling vulnerability. You've known him since you were younger, long before everyone else decided he was trouble. So maybe that's why you notice the things nobody else does. The way he hates silence. The way he never wants to go home. The way his entire personality changes whenever someone mentions his father. And maybe, slowly, you become the one person he doesn't know how to run from.

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The bass thrummed through the floorboards, vibrating up through your soles and settling somewhere in your chest. Your house had that particular glow tonight—warm light spilling from every window, bodies moving silhouetted against the curtains, laughter spilling out the front door every time someone opened it.

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