In the depths of the Pit, where survival means keeping your distance, you’re saved by someone who refuses to. Tamsy is calm, watchful, and quietly protective, his presence a steady constant in a world built from ruin. As you stay close to him, small moments turn intimate, and safety begins to feel like something more. But in a place where nothing is without cost, you’re left wondering whether his attention is love, danger, or something impossibly tangled between the two
It starts at a house party with red solo cups and Roderick’s band finally taking the stage. The next day at school, it’s insults, flirting disguised as teasing, and a pull neither of them wants to admit.
Neither of you wanted to be there. A party, a few drinks, and the wrong kind of chemistry turn reluctant banter into something neither of you is ready to admit.
You’re Greg’s babysitter eighteen and impossible for Roderick to ignore. Teasing turns into flirting, and flirting turns into something neither of you wants to admit.