No strings

Everyone thinks they know Amiyah Brooks.

Amiyah is the girl with the perfect smile, the perfect clothes, and the kind of life everyone wishes they had. She's popular, confident, and impossible to ignore. They either wanted to be her or hated her. But behind the image she's built is a girl who's tired of pretending she's okay.

Jude Mercer has always been the opposite.

Quiet, misunderstood, and carrying years of things he never talks about, he's the kind of person people overlook. He's already lost pieces of himself long before Amiyah ever came into his life-and after a breakup with the one person who felt like a reflection of him, he doesn't know what's left.

They didn't want each other.

They were just two people trying to escape their own thoughts for a while. No labels. No expectations. No feelings involved. Just sex.

Amiyah needed someone who didn't care about the perfect version of her. He needed someone who could make him feel something other than the emptiness he'd grown used to.

Somewhere between late night booty calls, blunt conversations, and moments where they forget about everything waiting for them outside of each other, they start becoming more than an escape.

But when two broken people find comfort in each other, they have to face the one thing they were both trying to avoid:

What happens when the person who was only supposed to be temporary starts feeling like home?