The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games, #2)

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.

I stared at the wall and wondered what lay beyond it. “Are you sure about this?” I asked Xander. He took a deep breath. “As sure as anyone holding a sledgehammer has ever been.”

“No,” Max corrected. “You and I are friends. Grayson is the physical manifestation of your avoidant attachment style. He won’t let himself want you. You don’t want to want to be wanted. Everybody stays at arm’s length. Nobody gets hurt, and nobody gets any.”