Purity: A Friends-to-Lovers College Romance

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She’ll set her hand on my shoulder, which will send electricity down my arm. She’ll close her eyes and mouth words to herself—careful not to say them aloud because she probably doesn’t want to scare me with the strange jargon. And I’ll just watch her, relishing her closeness and warmth, absorbing all of her compassion and kindness by proximity. Because I’m living an incredibly passive life, and that has to stop, because it’s not really living.” Part of the Purity series, which are interconnected standalones. I have not read any of the previous books in the series (although I now want too) and I didn't feel that anything was missing and this can absolutely be read as a true standalone. How did it go?” Mari asks on the drive home. Out of the corner of my eye, I see her wide grin. She must be able to sense my excitement. She’s so damned vulnerable. She shouldn’t be getting drunk and making out with strange guys, because she never learned how to protect herself.

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.I shouldn’t pity myself. In a way, I ought to be thankful for my cheating, piece-of-shit dad. If I hadn’t walked in on him all those years ago, I never would have felt that strange, itching need for escape. That uncomfortable feeling that made me convince my mom to let me transfer to a public school to see if a change of scenery would make it go away. When I became a pastor, I made a solemn vow to God: I wouldn’t touch another woman until I met my destined wife. The only problem? He knows me as Stella, my fun, carefree alter ego—so drastically different from Destelle, the girl who is trapped in the life her parents rule.

As I unfold the paper, his expression grows even more bewildered, but I press on. “These are all the things I plan to do by the end of the summer. I even set a deadline—September seventeenth. It’s the day before I start my senior year.”

Purity Summary

The sight of her slightly disheveled hair and big trusting brown eyes makes me want to burst out of my skin. Why does she have to be so tempting? Is she wasted?” Cole asks. “Why would she tell Travis you want to have a drunken make-out session?”

I’ve been in love with Cole Walker since the first day he walked into class and sat beside me. How could I not? Six foot five, gorgeous, and a sweetheart to boot. He’s charming enough to get any girl he wants. I’ll want to kill any boyfriend she introduces me to, if that’s what she’s going to do tonight—mostly out of jealousy—but I’ll have to keep any animosity under the surface. She can never know.

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Her mouth tightens. “I mean, I guess so, but why are you doing these things? You’ve never had any interest in partying. Why do you think doing it now is going to make you happy?” A half-truth. Unfortunately, the part of me that’s happy to do it might also compel me to give her an impulsive, “Yes, I’ll have sex with you,” at the sight of those big, beautiful, and probably soft— What is this strange aura settling over my body and making my teeth chatter? It’s faraway because I’m drunk, but I think it’s panic.