More Than I Could

Fourteen years. Fourteen anniversaries. One chance to rewrite the ending.

Seven years ago, I gave up the life I knew—and the man I loved—to do what was right. Duty was supposed to be enough. It wasn't. Now, teaching at Bisch School of Art in the same town where I left my heart, I've built a life that looks perfect from the outside. It isn't. I'm tired of pretending otherwise.

When Graham Loring walks back into my world, all sharp suit and sharper smile, the years between us dissolve like they never existed. He's changed. I've changed. The spark hasn't.

But I didn't come back to this town to fall in love, and he didn't come back for me. We both have secrets—his about the life he's built, mine about why I really came home.

When the truth surfaces, the future we want most might cost us everything we've worked for. This time, I can't run. Can't hide. Can't sacrifice myself for the sake of everyone else.

This time, I have to take more than I could.