“He was my best friend…” I say more to myself than her.“Yeah, so was I but you seem to have forgotten that part of your life.”The bet was simple.You draw a name from the hat.That’s the girl you have to seduce.The girl you have to make fall head over heels in love with you.It wasn’t hard for me to do, in fact, it was something I did all the time. I was known for breaking hearts. Sex was just that, sex. And it didn’t take me very long to get a woman on her back.And then I drew her name: Jules Peterson.My former best friend. My first kiss. My first love. She shattered my heart into a million pieces three years ago. She left me right when I needed her most.And as fate who have it, she had entered my life once again, at almost the perfect time.She was a transfer, fresh meat, and she had just put a target on her back. It was my turn to make her pay. It was my turn to break her heart.Holding onto that hate, that anger, that f*cking heartbreak. It does something to you. It breaks you, and it broke me, it tainted me, just like I would do to Jules.She used to be my everything, but now she was nothing but The Bet.**The Bet is book one in the North Woods University series. It is a full length, standalone, novel. It contains adult themes, and content not suitable for all readers. It is NOT a young adult novel.***** Authors' Warning: This book may not be a good read forreaderswith sensitivity to dubious content, sexual themes, and verbal abuse.While the book is entirely fiction--sexual, physical, and verbal abuse is a very real thing in our world, but it is not okay totreat someone that waynor are any of those abusive behaviors condoned. Just like the makers of gory horror movies don't actually want people to be brutally murdered, we do not want anyone to be bullied or abused in any way. ***