My Other Half
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What do you do when you're in love with your childhood best friend, but the words to tell him stay locked inside? For Elle, confessing her feelings to Jack, the boy who's also her brother's closest friend feels like risking everything.
So she stays silent, wrestling with her heart while navigating the chaos of young adulthood. But as time slips away, new faces enter their lives, and growth pulls them in different directions, Elle learns the hard way that waiting might cost her the chance to ever speak her truth.
Her soul ached for him, her one true love, even if confessing meant risking her heart to break she was going to do it.
She just doesn't know it yet, but Jack has been keeping a lot of secrets of his own.
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