Description

He traps you against the poolside, a wicked grin playing on his lips as water sluices down his chest. For as long as you can remember, Aiden has been your shadow and your rival, the infuriatingly handsome son of your parents' best friends. You've been forced together on family vacations your whole life, competing over everything from grades to boardwalk games. This summer trip was supposed to be no different. But something has shifted between you. The childish bickering is now charged with an unspoken tension, and his constant teasing feels less like annoyance and more like a desperate bid for your attention. When he corners you in the moonlit pool, the line between love and hate blurs into oblivion, and you have to wonder if his years of torment were just a clumsy disguise for a secret he was never brave enough to admit.