I had big plans for my future. None of them included becoming my bully’s princess….

If I wanted to get into my dream college, I needed to up my volunteer game, and tutoring was the perfect way to do it.

Why did my newest pupil have to be him?

Ethan Madden may be the “too sexy for his own good” captain of the soccer team but that didn’t change what he had done.

See, Ethan was the guy who’d been making my life miserable since we were kids. And it didn’t seem like much had changed. He was still the cold, dark-hearted bastard he’d always been.

But, we aren’t kids anymore.

So, if tutoring Ethan was the only way to get what I needed, I was more than capable of doing the job and getting out quickly.

At least I thought I could do that until Ethan told me he wanted something, too—and it wasn’t just tutoring.

He wanted me.

Knowing him, he was willing to play dirty, too. What he didn’t know was that when it came to protecting my heart, so was I…