Lilian fabro
HE KISSED ME IN THE DARK AND FORGOT ME BY MORNING
Rebecca Hale has loved Christian Ashworth since she was fifteen years old, standing in the rain in his borrowed jacket, convinced for one perfect night that a boy like him could see a girl like her.
He forgot. Or he pretended to.
Six years later, they're partnered for a class project neither of them wanted, and Christian remembers everything: her name, her laugh, the rainy staircase she buried to survive without him. In the dark, he's everything she imagined. He notices what she doesn't say. He kisses her like she's the only girl at the party. He makes promises with his hands on her face and his voice low enough that only she can hear them.
In the light, she doesn't exist.
He denies her to his friends. He looks through her in the quad. He lets the girl everyone expects him to marry humiliate her in public and says nothing, does nothing, while Rebecca stands there and swallows it whole.
Every stolen night makes her hope he'll finally choose her when someone's watching. Every public silence proves exactly what those promises are worth.
She tells herself private love is better than no love at all.
She's wrong. And somebody already knows their secret, sending warnings from a blocked number, threatening to drag every hidden thing they've built into the light. Before Christian can decide if she's worth the fall, Rebecca has to decide something harder:
How long can a girl keep loving a boy who only has the courage to love her when nobody's watching?
A dark, addictive New Adult romance about secrets, shame, and the terrifying cost of being chosen only in the dark.
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