Hidden in Plain Sight [LESTAPPEN]

Hidden in Plain Sight

LESTAPPEN | friends to lovers | dark romance | hurt/comfort | explicit

Everyone always said Charles and Max were too close to be "just best friends."
They laughed it off. Years of shared rides home, inside jokes, drunken crashes on each other's couches; of course they were close. That was normal. That was safe.

Until the night Charles's world falls apart.

One cheated-on Valentine's Day, one too many drinks, and one quiet bedroom later, the line they never dared cross finally snaps.
Grief tastes like beer and salt. Comfort tastes like teeth on skin.
And the boy who was always supposed to just "be there" for Charles suddenly isn't gentle anymore; he's possessive, overwhelming, ravenous, whispering I've got you like a threat and a vow at the same time.

Because some feelings don't hide.
They wait.

A raw, messy, bite-marked story about the moment two best friends stop pretending they were ever just friends; and how love can look a lot like ruin before it looks like healing.