Bury Me (Willow Heights Prep Academy: The Elite Book 3)

by Selena

  I nod, remembering how hard it was to see him feel unworthy when he couldn’t give me the things he wanted to. “I said you earned it.”

  “Well, Preston’s dad may not have killed that construction worker, but believe me, he earned whatever he gets.”

  I nod, feeling slightly better. I reach for the rocky road, my heart filled with bittersweet memories. “I just miss them, you know?”

  “I know, Sugar,” he says, handing me a spoon.

  I know, too. I know this is worth it. The past six months have been the happiest, most freeing, contented months of my life. Devlin is rich on his own, but we decided it was safer not to live that way. We don’t have a big fancy house, a designer wardrobe, or an expensive car. But we don’t need it. We have each other.

  Despite the things we did to each other in the past, or maybe because of them, I know nothing will ever come between us. Maybe it’s fucked up, but I’m glad we did those things to each other. If I can love and forgive him after what he did to me, he knows it’s real. And if he can love me and trust me after what I did, I know it’s real. We’re two fucked up people, and we know we have something that was worth every minute we fought for it. If it came easy, we wouldn’t know it was worth fighting for.

  I may look back more than Devlin does, but I’d never risk what we fought so hard to win. I know that once the baby comes, I’ll only look forward to her beautiful future. We’re making our own family now. Our own rules. In our family, no one will have to be anything they don’t want to be. Their futures will be theirs to decide. Our kids will be loved for who they are, just as Devlin and I love each other.

  Fiercely. Unconditionally. Until death.

  author’s note

  I hope you enjoyed reading Crystal and Devlin’s story! This is their happy ending. There are no more books planned in this series. However, a few familiar faces will star in upcoming series of their own.

  Royal’s will be the start of another series of bully romances featuring him and his girl.

  King’s will be the start of a mafia series where each book features a new couple. Read the blurbs below for more details, and a note on pre-order dates below that.

  Mafia Princess (blurb)

  It’s my duty to the family…

  King

  When I go to work for the Valenti’s, I don’t expect my first assignment to be my biggest challenge—marry the daughter of a rival boss.

  Wild and smart-mouthed as she is beautiful, Eliza Pomponio’s nothing but a bratty princess who’s always gotten her way. Taming her won’t be easy.

  But everyone is counting on us to keep peace between the New York families, so that’s exactly what I’ll do.

  I may answer to mob bosses during the day, but at night, I’ll give the orders.

  Eliza

  In one moment, my freedom is snatched away when my father tells me I have to marry a man I’ve never met.

  I expect an eighty-year-old retired boss who craves my virgin flesh in payment for his service. Bright side—in a few years, he’ll be gone, and I’ll be free again.

  I’m not prepared for the dangerously gorgeous soldier my father presents. Like anything that looks too good to be true, so is my new husband. He’s cold, cruel, and worst of all, young.

  Suddenly, marriage is a life sentence.

  That is, if I don’t show him from day one that no one controls Eliza Pomponio.

  Pre-order King’s story here.

  Bad Apple (blurb)

  My name is Harper Apple, and people say I’m rotten to the core.

  “Girls like you get one shot.”

  When my shot comes in the form of a scholarship to Willow Heights Prep, you can bet your ass I take it. If getting out of this hellhole town means spending my last two years of high school at an elite academy full of rich, entitled pricks, then bring it on.

  “Girls like you don’t belong.”

  The arrogant and infuriatingly gorgeous Dolce brothers reign supreme in the hallowed halls of Willow Heights, and they don’t welcome my kind. Especially when I get in their way, don’t play by the rules in their twisted games, and refuse to bow to the cruel tyrants who run the place.

  “Girls like you are bad news.”

  Royal, Baron, and Duke Dolce set their sights on me. They think a poor girl will be an easy target, that they can break me and bring me to my knees like the girls who came before me. But the Dolce boys underestimate me. In this town, even girls from the trailer park hide deadly secrets. Secrets that could destroy them.

  After all, it’s those from the wicked world of wealth and privilege with the most to lose.

  Pre-order Royal’s story here.

  A note on pre-order dates

  Why do I set the pre-order dates for my books so far out? I get that question nearly every day. I’m probably stupid to take that risk after the amount of outrage and vitriol I received for making that decision the first time (even though I assured people it would be out sooner).

  I debated not putting books up for preorder at all, but I decided not to let my fear of other people’s ugliness cancel my plans. As I said before, a long preorder doesn’t mean the book will be out in a year. It means I don’t know the date yet, so I’m leaving it open. I do want you to know the book is coming, though. So a pre-order gives you that promise set in stone (Or Amazon, is the same thing, right? ;)

  Here’s why. Because I’m a reader, too, and I do understand the frustration of incomplete series. I understand it so hard. Just the other day I read a book that came out in 2017 and ended on a brutal cliffhanger. I went to get the next book, and it wasn’t out yet. Nor was there a date when I could expect it. That’s frustrating as hell. I get it! I don’t want to do that to you.

  But I also want to listen to my muse, to my characters. I want to enjoy writing, and not just churn out books like I’m a factory worker stamping words on a page as they pass by. I love writing, but to continue loving it, I need to give myself a little freedom, a little breathing room.

  I hope you can understand that and be patient. If you can’t—I get it, not everyone has that in them—I’m probably not the author for you. And that’s okay! There are TONS of authors who don’t have full-time jobs outside writing, who don’t have kids, who have partners or families that support them so they can spend all day writing and bring you a book (or more) every single month. And that’s fantastic for you and for them!

  I am not that author.

  I’m a single mom. I work a full-time day job in addition to writing under 2 pen names to support myself and my kid. So please, please take into consideration that authors are people, too, before you send nasty emails or leave reviews that have nothing to do with the book and everything to do with your annoyance at a tentative pre-order date for the next book. Because yes, sometimes I will have to prioritize my other obligations, or even other series that are putting more food on the table than this one. But I will always deliver. That’s the promise of a pre-order. You know the book will come. Maybe in 3 months like this one, maybe not. But never more than a year!

  Thanks for understanding.

  --Selena

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