A Steele Heart for Scarlett Thorne

Autumn Pollard Romance

Dean Steele was the kind of man people warned you about.Cold blue eyes. Tattooed hands. A violent temper hidden beneath expensive clothes and sharp smirks. The type of man who walked through life looking bored, dangerous, and completely untouchable.Most people at Blackthorne University feared him.Every girl wanted him.None of them truly knew him.But Scarlett Thorne did. At least… she thought she did. Growing up next door to the Steele brothers, Scarlett spent years convincing herself Dean barely tolerated her existence. He teased her relentlessly, acted irritated whenever she came around to see his younger brother, her best friend Erik, and treated her like she was just another annoying girl following him around. Meanwhile Scarlett secretly spent years fantasizing about him. About the way his rough voice dropped when they were alone. The way his icy eyes darkened whenever another guy touched her. The way his large rough hands looked wrapped around a beer bottle… imagining how they'd feel wrapped around her throat.
Dean Steele made her feel things she was too embarrassed to admit out loud. Dirty things. Dangerous things.
Which was exactly why Scarlett forced herself to move on with someone safer. William Carter was everything Dean wasn’t. Charming. Popular. Sweet when nobody else was looking. Scarlett met him during tutoring sessions after discovering the star football player was failing math. Somewhere between late nights studying and quiet smiles across textbooks, Will made Scarlett feel chosen for the first time in her life.
So she ignored the tension with Dean.
Ignored the filthy fantasies she had about the older boy next door. Ignored the way Dean watched her like he wanted to rip out anyone's eyes who dare to look her way every time she walked into a room. But the longer Scarlett dates Will, the more cracks begin to show.
Jealousy.
Control.
Humiliation disguised as love.
And Dean notices every single one.
Because while Scarlett spent years believing Dean Steele hated her… the truth is far worse.
Dean has been obsessed with her for years.
Obsessed with the shy girl who curled up on his family’s couch in tiny shorts and oversized sweaters while reading romance novels completely unaware he was imagining filthy things about her from across the room.
Obsessed with the girl who threw sarcasm at his cruel jokes instead of fearing him like everyone else.
Obsessed with the only person capable of making him feel weak.
Every touch between them feels wrong.
Every glance lasts too long.
Every argument burns with tension neither of them can control anymore.
And when Will abandons Scarlett during one reckless night that turns dangerous fast, Dean is the one who comes for her.
Dean is the one who makes grown men back away with a single look.
The one who pulls Scarlett tight against his chest with rough hands and promises nobody will touch her again.
The one who finally stops pretending he doesn’t want her.
Now Scarlett is trapped between the life she thought she wanted and the man she’s craved for years.
Because Dean Steele doesn’t love softly.
He loves like obsession.
Like possession.
Like something violent enough to consume them both.
And once Dean finally gets Scarlett Thorne underneath him, he has no intention of ever letting her go.
A Steele Heart For Scarlett Thorne is a dark, addictive college romance filled with spicy s****l obsession, Dominant/submissive touches, jealousy, possessive tension, filthy chemistry, emotional damage, and a man willing to destroy anyone who touches the girl he’s been secretly fantasizing about for years.

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