She was never good at staying. Relationships ended before they could deepen, feelings were something she avoided, and emotional distance was her default setting. Noah Caldwell was the one exception. He stayed through all of it—her mixed signals, her disappearances, her refusal to define anything. Quietly consistent, endlessly patient, and always there when she came back. She told herself it didn’t mean anything. Then Noah finally stopped waiting. When he begins a relationship with someone calm, kind, and emotionally open—everything she isn’t—she assumes she’ll be fine. She isn’t. For the first time, she’s forced to watch someone else receive the version of him she once had access to. And by the time she realises what she lost, he’s no longer looking back.