My fiancé is sleeping with my stepsister.
I find out at one in the morning, reading the messages on his phone while he sleeps three feet away. I don’t wake him.
If I do, he’ll make the conversation about why I touched his phone, and the messages will be gone before I can prove what I saw. Then Lucy will cry, my family will close around her, and I’ll be the one expected to explain myself.
So I smile. I go dress shopping. I let them book a venue for April.
And I collect every piece of proof they won’t be able to argue with.
There’s only one person I tell.
Jack Thibodaux has been my best friend since we were five. He’s a lawyer now, with a dog, a house in Mid-City, and a porch light he always leaves on for me. He knows when I’m lying about being fine. He has never once asked me for more than I could give.
I didn’t know what that was costing him.
Jack has been in love with me since we were sixteen. He never said it. He just stayed.
The hardest thing I’ve ever done isn’t putting the truth on a dinner table in front of the witnesses I invited on purpose.
It’s letting myself be loved by a man who was never going to leave.
A best-friends-to-lovers romance set in New Orleans. Dual POV, low angst between the leads, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
✓ Best Friends-to-Lovers
✓ He Fell First, He Fell Harder
✓ Thirteen Years of Unrequited Love
✓ Slow Burn
✓ Cheating Fiancé—Never the Hero
✓ Receipts and Reckoning
✓ Quiet, Steady, Protective Hero
✓ Golden Child vs. Scapegoat
✓ Found Family
Genre: Romance
I find out at one in the morning, reading the messages on his phone while he sleeps three feet away. I don’t wake him.
If I do, he’ll make the conversation about why I touched his phone, and the messages will be gone before I can prove what I saw. Then Lucy will cry, my family will close around her, and I’ll be the one expected to explain myself.
So I smile. I go dress shopping. I let them book a venue for April.
And I collect every piece of proof they won’t be able to argue with.
There’s only one person I tell.
Jack Thibodaux has been my best friend since we were five. He’s a lawyer now, with a dog, a house in Mid-City, and a porch light he always leaves on for me. He knows when I’m lying about being fine. He has never once asked me for more than I could give.
I didn’t know what that was costing him.
Jack has been in love with me since we were sixteen. He never said it. He just stayed.
The hardest thing I’ve ever done isn’t putting the truth on a dinner table in front of the witnesses I invited on purpose.
It’s letting myself be loved by a man who was never going to leave.
A best-friends-to-lovers romance set in New Orleans. Dual POV, low angst between the leads, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
✓ Best Friends-to-Lovers
✓ He Fell First, He Fell Harder
✓ Thirteen Years of Unrequited Love
✓ Slow Burn
✓ Cheating Fiancé—Never the Hero
✓ Receipts and Reckoning
✓ Quiet, Steady, Protective Hero
✓ Golden Child vs. Scapegoat
✓ Found Family
Genre: Romance
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