The Dog Doesn’t Bite

“So you don’t want to be friends either—then what? You want us to just pretend we’re friends and fool around?” The moment she laid eyes on Tae-ju, she felt it: a fierce, undeniable hunger. Her body craved him, yet her mind screamed that friends must never cross this line, barely holding reason back from surrendering to raw instinct. When his lips grazed her ear and he whispered that she should run if she hated it, she felt her heart might tear itself apart at any second. [Revised edition; rated for ages 15+]