The Hawthorne Legacy

I’ll always protect you
, he’d sworn.
But this… us… It can’t happen, Avery.

“He doesn’t want me,” I told Max. “Not really. He wants the mystery. He wants to keep me close until he can use me. I’m a part of the puzzle to him.”
“But…,” Max prompted, “would you like to be used by him?”

It would be a very risky gamble

“And some people are both.”

Some people are smart.
Some people are good

“Upside, downside, inside, outside, left side, right side

He left her, and she loved him anyway

At least this time, it was me
and
the Hawthornes against the world.

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea

“But some things happen for a reason.”