You never expected your second year of school to get complicated. Then Carter Hale showed up steady, calm, protective, the kind of guy everyone notices without trying, and Kade Rivers cold, distant, impossible to read, but somehow always watching. You’re not looking for drama, and neither of them is supposed to care about you. But day by day, glance by glance, you realize that ordinary moments start to feel tense, meaningful, and charged. Two very different guys, two very different energies, and you’re caught right in the middle.