storms_to_rainbows
Liam and Lexi fall in love before they ever meet.
When they see each other, the bond between them doesn't hesitate. It snaps into place-unmistakable, permanent, and consuming. A mating bond neither of them can deny. Their connection solidifies in pieces-voices in the dark, shared confessions, laughter that feels intimate.
Liam chooses Lexi openly. He builds a life beside her, shares a bed, a home, a future that feels real in his hands. He loves her with devotion, with tenderness, with the certainty of someone who knows she is his.
And still-Knox is always there.
Knox is Liam's best friend, his brother in everything but blood, the one he has protected since childhood. For a long time, Knox's pain is loud and needy, and even as he begins to heal, Liam doesn't know how to stop making room for him. So he keeps inviting him in. Into their home. Into their routines. Into the quiet spaces where Lexi thought it would finally be just the two of them.
Liam never sees it as choosing Knox over Lexi.
To him, it's loyalty. Habit. Love that existed first.
To Lexi, it feels like being mated-yet never fully alone with her mate.
This is a story about a bond that is unbreakable-and a boundary that keeps being crossed.
About loving someone who means well, but doesn't realize that presence can be a kind of betrayal.
About learning that choosing your mate isn't a single decision-it's something you have to do every day, especially when the past keeps knocking at the door.