Always you

What if your soulmate had been standing beside you your entire life... and you never noticed?

She called him her best friend.
He called her the love of his life.
For eighteen years, that difference changed everything.

Aria Laurent has spent her whole life chasing the impossible.

A ballerina and violinist with dreams bigger than her, she earns a scholarship to one of the world's most prestigious universities and leaves behind everything she knows-including Noah Hayes.
The boy who has been by her side since childhood.
To Aria, Noah is family.
Her safest place.
Her best friend.
The boy who always waits for her after practice, carries her violin case, remembers every important date, and somehow knows what she needs before she says a word.
The boy she never once considered loving.
Not that way.

But Noah has carried a secret for almost his entire life.
From the moment a six-year-old girl offered her hand to a lonely four-year-old boy, his heart was never truly his own again.
He watched her dream.
He watched her grow.
He watched her leave.

And he loved her through every version of herself.
Silently.
Patiently.
Completely.

When Noah finally follows Aria abroad two years later, he imagines a thousand reunions.
None of them include another man holding her hand.

Now forced to watch the girl he loves build a future with someone else, Noah makes a choice:

"If he cannot be the man she loves...
he will remain the friend she needs."

But hearts are stubborn things.

As years of memories collide with new emotions, old certainties begin to crack.
Because sometimes the person who feels like home isn't just a friend.
Sometimes they're the love story you've been living all along.

And when the truth finally comes to light, Aria must answer one question:

«Can she risk losing her best friend... to discover he's the love of her life?»