When We Chose Each Other

She left for London to build a future.

He stayed behind to build an empire.

Neither of them expected to find each other again.

Cressida was supposed to be temporary-the girl from Portland who changed everything without meaning to. Micah King was never supposed to be the man who followed her in silence, even when life told him not to.

But distance doesn't erase what was never resolved.
And time doesn't soften what was never said.

When Cressida returns to Portland, everything they buried rises again-love, regret, ambition, and the truth neither of them were ready for.
Micah is engaged.

Cressida refuses to be a secret.

And somewhere between loyalty and desire, they both must decide what it means to choose a life... and the person who changes it.

Because love was never the problem.

It was the consequences that came with finally admitting it existed.