Call You Mine

For Shakespeare Macoy, love had always been a quiet ache, unspoken and unwavering. Jaden Evans was the source of it-their bond so deeply etched into his soul that it defied the years, the distance, and even his resolve to move on. He'd long since made peace with Jaden's absence after a bitter falling-out, laying the dreams he'd once harbored for them both. After all, Jaden was straight, wasn't he? But when the man in questions unexpectedly reappears in his life after a year of silence with a smile that could even disarm the King's guards, Shakespeare's pulled back into a dangerous dance of longing and restraint.

For Jaden, life had always been an endless performance. He'd spent years molding himself into what others expect him to be by bowing to the weight of societal expectations and burying the parts of himself that felt too risky to reveal. Being back in the orbit of Shake's unwavering steadiness reminds him of the safety he's always craved, yet Jaden is terrified he might reopen wounds that haven't fully healed by revealing the one secret he'd borne in silence for over a decade.

As Shake struggles to protect the fragile renewal of their friendship, and Jaden grapples with the suffocating weight of living for everyone but himself, they find themselves drawn into dangerous waters whilst the tension grows between them, threatening to expose truths they've both avoided for years.