For six years, Elias Hart has been the easiest person in your life to love and the only one you can’t have. He’s older. Your boss. The owner of the bookstore that became your second home. You know how he takes his coffee. He knows when you’re lying about being okay. Somewhere between rainy evenings, shared silences, and a thousand moments that never should have mattered this much, the line between friendship and something else disappeared. The problem is that Elias refuses to cross it. No matter how much he wants to. No matter how much it hurts. No matter how much you both already belong to each other.