Everything He Wasn't

Three Months. That's how long it took for Bea Carter to realize she was falling for a lie. She had spent every moment of her first relationship trying to be the girl Derik wanted-only to find him in a crowded kitchen, proving he never deserved her in the first place.

One public confrontation and a discarded blonde wig later, Bea is done. She storms out of the party and into the freezing October night, ready to leave Derik and his world behind for good.

But she doesn't even make it past the porch before she falls. And the person who catches her isn't the one she wants, but the one she's always avoided: Milo.

As Derik's best friend, Milo was always the silent, brooding shadow in the background. He was the one who never smiled, the one who stayed sober while the rest of the team partied, and the one Bea was sure hated her.

But as he helps her into his car and drives her away from the wreckage of her night, the silence between them starts to change. Milo isn't the selfish boy she thought he was. In fact, he's observant, steady, and dangerously protective.

Behind the cold exterior is a man who has been paying attention to every detail Derik ignored. Now, Bea is forced to navigate the messy fallout of a breakup that everyone is talking about-all while realizing that the "enemy" in her corner is everything her ex never was.

She's spent three months with a boy who only saw what he wanted to see. Now, she's stuck with the one man who is everything he wasn't.