I was fifteen when Nicholas Hayes walked into my life. I was seventeen and he hated me. I was nineteen when I fell for him. Hopelessly. …and then we broke each other to pieces. Six years later, I’m back on the east coast, doing my sister a favor. He’s not supposed to be here, so running into him is an unwelcome surprise. What’s worse, somehow, we end up working together, so instead of avoiding him, I now have to see him every day. His infuriating smirk. The knowing looks. His laugh and dumb jokes and the way that stupid nickname he gave me sounds on his lips. Before I know it, all those feelings I thought I’d buried long ago are back with a vengeance. But I’m not that same lovesick teenager anymore. I know exactly how this story ends. And I refuse to live through it twice.

I was fifteen when Nicholas Hayes walked into my life. I was seventeen and he hated me. I was nineteen when I fell for him. Hopelessly. …and then we broke each other to pieces. Six years later, I’m back on the east coast, doing my sister a favor. He’s not supposed to be here, so running into him is an unwelcome surprise. What’s worse, somehow, we end up working together, so instead of avoiding him, I now have to see him every day. His infuriating smirk. The knowing looks. His laugh and dumb jokes and the way that stupid nickname he gave me sounds on his lips. Before I know it, all those feelings I thought I’d buried long ago are back with a vengeance. But I’m not that same lovesick teenager anymore. I know exactly how this story ends. And I refuse to live through it twice.

My heart is in his hands, and he doesn’t even know it.Adrian Elias Olsen crashed into my world like a wrecking ball—adventurous, carefree, and impossible to resist. He gave me a home, a family, and a place to belong.Somewhere along the way, I gave him my heart... And now it’s too late to take it back.I crave, and I yearn, and I ache, and I want.Always.All the time.And he doesn’t have a clue.I promised myself I’d get over him. The trip we take together is supposed to be the end—the last time he’s mine before I finally let him go.But when paradise unexpectedly turns into purgatory, we’re forced to only rely on each other.Suddenly, every glance lingers. Every touch burns. And the pull between us only grows stronger—dangerously so.Because no matter how much I want him, I can’t have him.In the real world, Adrian’s heart isn’t mine to keep.In the real world, it already belongs to someone else.