Fourteen weeks. Ten years of friendship. One thing he never told her
For ten years, Jordi has kept Serena in a category all of her own: best friend, person he would do anything for, person he absolutely cannot ruin by wanting.
It mostly works.
He dates other women. Serena builds a life of her own. And neither of them looks too closely at the feelings that don’t fit neatly inside a friendship.
Then a role comes up that Serena was born to play, and Jordi puts her name forward without telling her.
For Serena, Jordi has always been the safest person in the room; the one who stays, who knows her, who feels like home.
Now she’s cast in Company, Jordi is conducting from the piano eight feet away, and a staging note asks her to touch him like furniture.
She does. Every night.
And suddenly the friendship they’ve spent ten years protecting is becoming something neither of them can keep contained.
If he tells Serena what he did, he might lose her. If he doesn’t he might lose her anyway.
Tropes:
- Friends to lovers
- Slow burn
- Dual POV
- Found family
- Open door
- Theatre romance
- Terapy-positive
- Emotionally avoidant adults trying to do better
