Some stories don’t begin with a kiss.
They begin with a journal in a bookstore box.
A storm. A name she thought she’d buried.Rowan Lennon thought she was done grieving the boy who broke her—until his journal lands in her hands, packed with unspoken confessions and sticky notes full of truths he never had the courage to say. Cass Hayes is back, and so is the past she tried to box away.
Now the boy she thought was a closed chapter is leaving a trail of notes, old lyrics, and unfinished apologies—asking her to read between the lines and decide if there's a future hidden in the wreckage.
Their reunion is messy, magnetic, and full of memory. But what happens when the truth finally spills out… too late?
Before You Read This is a standalone in Unspoken Things—a series of emotionally rich, romantic stories about what we never said, and the one person who stayed anyway.
Slow-burn. Soft heartbreak. Deep healing.
Genre: Romance
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