Everything I Wanted, Never Mine

When Amanda’s world shatters, she turns to Eric, her oldest friend, and moves in with him for what is meant to be only a temporary stay.

His quiet, brooding steadiness should be simple shelter, but the pull of living so close begins to feel dangerously like something more.

Eric has loved her from afar for longer than he will admit, and her presence under his roof is both a gift he never dared hope for and a punishment he believes he has earned.

She is not sure she can fall again, and he does not believe he deserves the chance, even as friendship, love, and guilt blur and old wounds resurface around a past betrayal of physical cheating and an unexpected pregnancy.

Whatever they have been to each other, it is no longer only friendship, and the cost of wanting more may be higher than either of them is prepared to pay.