The Step Between Us by Rae C Sellers

I’ve loved Finn since I was thirteen.
Before I even knew what love really was.
He was my first crush. My first kiss. My almost everything.
Then our parents said “I do.”

We were supposed to become family.
Instead, we became strangers who lived across the hall.
Years passed in silence—until this summer.

Now we’re back under the same roof.
And he’s no longer the boy I used to dream about—he’s the man I can’t stop thinking about.

Not with the way he looks at me when he thinks I’m not watching.
Not when I’m done pretending I don’t still want him.
Not when every second near him feels like falling—again.

He’s still off-limits. Still the worst idea.
But I’ve never been great at walking away.

Loving him might break everything…
But I’ve never been good at playing it safe.