Last Chance Academy (Immortals of Talonswood, #1)

by Alex Lidell

distrust doesn’t need to be earned; trust does.

I’ve learned to look for the hook in men’s proposals the way obsessed helicopter parents dig for razor blades in Halloween candy.

But Ellis was right. He’d known the cost of insulting Quinn and had done it anyway. Because Ellis was just self-destructive enough for that. Fucking hell. They were all broken toys. Deadly. Honed. And broken.