He didn’t break down my walls. He followed me through them.
Sloane
I don’t hide.
I disappear.
New name. New hair. New life every time someone gets too close.
It’s strategy.
Because when people know you, they can use you.
And I’ve learned the hard way what happens when you stay in one place too long.
Northern Tennessee was supposed to be temporary—
a stopover, a shadow, a place to vanish when the semester ends.
Then he found me.
Jax Calder.
Track star. Campus golden boy.
The boy who runs like he’s being chased—and looks at me like I''m the one he’s hunting.
He shouldn’t know my routines.
My tells.
My real name.
But he does.
And every time I slip away, he’s already there.
Waiting. Watching.
Smiling like he’s been tracking me for years.
I should run.
It’s what I’m good at.
But he’s faster.
And for the first time, I’m not sure I want to escape.
Jax
Most people think I’m the nice one.
The fast one.
The one who smiles for the cameras and signs jerseys for kids.
They don’t know what I am underneath.
What I’ve always been.
A hunter.
And Sloane Hayes?
She’s the first girl who ever made me hungry.
She thinks she can change her hair, her clothes, her whole damn life and I won’t notice.
But I saw her the moment she stepped on campus—
the way she scanned exits, the way she never let anyone walk behind her, the way she lied with her smile.
She’s not scared.
She’s hunted.
And she doesn’t realize she wandered straight into my territory.
I don''t want her love.
I want her truth.
Her secrets.
Her breath in my hands when she finally stops running.
Because Sloane wasn’t made for the world.
She was made for me.
The chase.
The capture.
The surrender.
And I’ll track her through every lie she’s ever lived
until she learns the one thing she can’t escape.
Me.
Genre: Romance
Sloane
I don’t hide.
I disappear.
New name. New hair. New life every time someone gets too close.
It’s strategy.
Because when people know you, they can use you.
And I’ve learned the hard way what happens when you stay in one place too long.
Northern Tennessee was supposed to be temporary—
a stopover, a shadow, a place to vanish when the semester ends.
Then he found me.
Jax Calder.
Track star. Campus golden boy.
The boy who runs like he’s being chased—and looks at me like I''m the one he’s hunting.
He shouldn’t know my routines.
My tells.
My real name.
But he does.
And every time I slip away, he’s already there.
Waiting. Watching.
Smiling like he’s been tracking me for years.
I should run.
It’s what I’m good at.
But he’s faster.
And for the first time, I’m not sure I want to escape.
Jax
Most people think I’m the nice one.
The fast one.
The one who smiles for the cameras and signs jerseys for kids.
They don’t know what I am underneath.
What I’ve always been.
A hunter.
And Sloane Hayes?
She’s the first girl who ever made me hungry.
She thinks she can change her hair, her clothes, her whole damn life and I won’t notice.
But I saw her the moment she stepped on campus—
the way she scanned exits, the way she never let anyone walk behind her, the way she lied with her smile.
She’s not scared.
She’s hunted.
And she doesn’t realize she wandered straight into my territory.
I don''t want her love.
I want her truth.
Her secrets.
Her breath in my hands when she finally stops running.
Because Sloane wasn’t made for the world.
She was made for me.
The chase.
The capture.
The surrender.
And I’ll track her through every lie she’s ever lived
until she learns the one thing she can’t escape.
Me.
Genre: Romance
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