Salutis Meae: A College Romance

He is the last person she should want — and the only one she can't stop thinking about.

When two rivals share more than just academic ambition, the line between hatred and desire becomes dangerously thin. She has spent years building walls, perfecting the art of keeping people exactly where she needs them: at a distance. He has spent just as long refusing to be kept anywhere.

They don't get along. They never have. Every shared class is a battlefield, every accidental hallway collision a small war neither one admits to losing. But something shifts when the competition stops feeling like the point — when the sharp looks linger a beat too long and arguments start sounding less like fighting and more like *wanting*.

College was supposed to be about futures. About becoming someone worth knowing. Neither of them planned on needing the other to figure out who that person is.

*Salutis Meae* is a slow-burn college romance about two people who refuse to need anyone — until they need each other more than they can stand. Jocelyne Soto writes with the kind of raw, aching honesty that makes you forget you're reading fiction. The tension builds until it breaks, and when it finally does, you'll feel every single moment of it.

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