Also by Molly E. Lee

the Grad Night series

Love in the Friend Zone

Love Between Enemies

Love Beyond Opposites

Independent Titles

Edge of Chaos

Edge of Recovery

Edge of Bliss

East of Redemption

Depths of Salvation

Edge of Brotherhood

Edge of Regret

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

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Edited by Stacy Abrams

Cover design by Molly E. Lee and Heather Howland

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Interior images by Molly E. Lee and iStock/art-sonik

Interior design by Heather Howland

Print ISBN 978-1-64063-658-3

Ebook ISBN 978-1-64063-659-0

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition May 2019

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Prologue

Prologue

Amber

NightLocker: Please talk to me

NightLocker: Let me explain

NightLocker: Pixie...I’m sorry

NightLocker: There are things you don’t understand

I tucked my fingers under my arms, ignoring the tingle to respond immediately.

Damn straight I don’t understand.

Betrayal stung like a paper cut while opening a package of lemonade mix.

My heart hurt. Like, I’d been burned before…but this? This physically turned my stomach and seared my chest.

This…

This was true heartbreak.

This was can’t sleep, can’t eat unless it’s chocolate, can’t breathe without sharp spikes rattling my lungs, relentless heartbreak.

NightLocker: Give me a chance

NightLocker: I can make this right

NightLocker: I want to...

NightLocker: I need you...DC remember? Doesn’t that mean anything to you anymore?

Tears stung my eyes as I read his pleas. His use of our secret word, a code that had become something so much more than a warning. Something as vital as breathing and as true as the ache in my heart.

Some deep part of me, the one he’d branded his name on, wanted to forgive him. Needed to.

Because who was I to judge…after what I’d done?

I should forgive him. I should tell him the truth about what I knew.