Written with Regret (Regret #1)

by Aly Martinez

Lying as still as possible, I closed my eyes and prayed for the first time in my entire life.

Or, as it turned out, she’d send someone who could.

“When I say go, I need you to crawl with me,” he whispered.

My lids flew open and I found a teenage boy, maybe fifteen or sixteen, with dark hair and the bluest eyes I’d ever seen staring back at me. He too was on his stomach, facing me with his cheek resting on the cold tile and a red baseball cap turned sideways to hid...

After the shooting, I’d reached out to him no less than twenty-five times. Asking around Watersedge, I’d found his address and mailed him letters, begging him for help. I didn’t know what I’d thought a fifteen-year-old boy could do. I was just so lost in my own emotions, and he’d saved me once. I believed he could do it again. He never answered.

And then it happened. On a day dictated by a pendulum of emotions, Hadley proved she had one more up her sleeve. She grinned, sweet and stunning. And that grin showed from the curve of her crescent lips all the way to the twinkle in her red-rimmed eyes. I stared, confused by the way her happiness didn’t piss me off. It actually made me feel… Shit. Happy too.