If Home Was a Person

Aurora never learned how to ask for more.
So she steals warmth instead-borrowed hoodies, quiet dinners, a place at a table that isn't hers. A house where love doesn't hurt and a boy who has always been her safe place.
Asher is cold to everyone but her.
He's the boy who notices everything, protects without asking, and loves in ways he never says out loud.
They've grown up side by side-too close to be just friends, too scared to be anything else. Because admitting the truth might ruin the only place Aurora has ever felt at home.
A slow-burn, childhood best friends to lovers story about found family, unspoken love, and discovering that sometimes...
home isn't a place.
It's a person.