Only Safe With Me: a Possessive, Protective Boyfriend Slow Burn High School Romance

She was supposed to graduate quietly, keep her head down, and get out.Then someone decided she was his.Clearhills has rules no one writes down. Hallways part for Asher Mercer. People stop talking when he looks at them. After one moment in an empty classroom, everyone treats Ellie like she already belongs to him—off-limits, spoken for, protected.Protected is the nice word.Because Asher doesn’t ask. He controls the space around her, the people who talk to her, the boy who dares sit too close. He’ll stand between her and anyone who might hurt her—and also anyone who might touch her. Or take her. Or make her think she could live without him.Everyone says she’s safer that way.No one asks if she wants to be kept safe.When a new guy acts like Ellie gets to choose who she talks to, the balance cracks. Suddenly it’s not just hallway jealousy and silent threats. It’s the question she’s never let herself say out loud: am I staying because I feel safe with him—or because I’m not allowed to leave?ONLY SAFE WITH ME is an angsty, possessive, high-school slow-burn about a quiet girl and the boy everyone’s afraid of… except her.Read if you want:obsessive, jealous, overprotective love that watches the room and dares anyone to touch you“you’re only safe with me” energyhallway tension, locker standoffs, forced closeness, territorial staresa heroine who finds her voice instead of staying silenta boy who would do anything to keep her close—even if it means never letting go