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She fell for him when she was a teenager. He was her best friend's older brother. Distant, serious, completely unattainable. She told herself it was just a crush. Something she'd outgrow.
She was wrong.
Years later, he's a billionaire who built an empire by keeping everyone out. Cold. Controlled. Untouchable. And she's no longer the shy teenager who blushed every time he walked into the room.
But the moment their paths cross again, everything she buried comes rushing back.
Ethan Cole remembers her. More than he should. More than he'll ever admit. She was always off-limits. Too young, too close to his family, too dangerous to even think about. He convinced himself he felt nothing.
Now she's standing in front of him, all grown up, and every lie he told himself is falling apart.
She knows this is a terrible idea. He's still her best friend's brother. Still older. Still the one man who could cost her everything.
But the way he looks at her when no one else is watching? That's not nothing.
One night of stress baking in his kitchen changes everything. Flour dusted across the counter. Her laughter echoing through rooms that haven't felt warm in years. A single moment where his walls finally crack.
She should walk away.
He should let her go.
Too bad neither of them has ever been good at should.
