Forbidden Flare

Cassian Cordero has spent years wanting Vivienne Wilson in silence, because she is his best friend's sister and the one person he cannot claim.

With her engagement already set to a man who can offer a title and a respectable future, Cassian—the estate manager's son temporarily running Belgrave Park while his father recovers—holds himself back and still tries to give her whatever she asks.

A marriage on the estate is supposed to be Vivienne's perfect ending, the match her family has always envisioned, yet her brother's closest friend fills the stables, the library, and every dinner, his gaze lingering as if she slipped away long ago.

He was her first crush and remains the only man she has ever loved, but he refuses to step over the line or speak the words she waits for.

She agreed to marry someone she does not love, certain that Cassian would have reached for her already if he ever meant to make her his.