We grew up in the same house. We were never supposed to love each other like that.
But I did—quietly, carefully, with a guilt I never learned to outrun.
I was placed with the Holmes family at ten years old. Hayden and I were the same age, sharing a house, a friendship, a family, and a line we weren’t supposed to cross.
He left Coral Bay and built a life somewhere else. We stayed in touch. We stayed family. And I told myself that was enough, burying the feelings I wasn’t supposed to carry.
Now he’s back—divorced, a single dad, and we’re sharing space and responsibility again. The house feels smaller. The past feels closer. And the feelings I locked away are breaking free.
Every touch is a confession. Every line we cross can’t be uncrossed. And Hayden and I both know it—and still risk it.
But wanting this has a cost.
It can fracture the only family I’ve ever known—and force us to choose between the love we can no longer deny and everything we stand to lose.
Where We Left Us featuring Evangeline Miller & Hayden Holmes is a dual-pov, achingly heartfelt, slow burn, open door, small town romance.
