All The Years I Looked Away

'This was never a love story. Until it was.'

They grew up in the same town, sharing classrooms, hallways, and city lights. But never quite the same world. He was everything loud: the golden boy, star athlete, too brilliant for his own good. She was everything quiet: the girl with ink-stained hands, eyes full of stories, and a habit of fading into the background.

They barely spoke until she dated his rival, and then silence turned into barbed banter. Neither of them expected the tension to feel like gravity.

But on a reckless New Year's Eve during their final year, she kissed him-just once-and it nearly unraveled them both. By morning, they pretended it never happened.

Two years later, she's engaged. He's a rising sports legend. And when fate throws them together again-ten days, one assignment, a thousand unsaid things-they'll finally have to face what's been simmering between them since the first time they looked away.

― What happens when the one you could never have suddenly becomes the only one you can't let go?