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Felix

I should be on top of the world. I'm renovating my first real home, creating a safe place to bring Josette, my best friend and the woman I've been pledged to marry since we were infants. I'm about to have it all—a wife, then kids, and a settled life. So why is my stomach in knots, and why am I having very inappropriate thoughts about her older brother?

Jacob

My sister Josette is marrying her childhood sweetheart, and I'm busy renovating their new house. I should be thrilled for my sister. And I am. Truly. But there's always been something special about Felix, and lately, when I catch him looking at me, I can’t help wondering what it would be like if this wasourdream coming true.

This 25k novella is a best friend’s brother gay romance with a shy elementary school teacher, a brawny contractor, and a wrong dream turned right.

The novella first appeared inLove is All Volume 7.

Dedication

Xio – for your continued faith in me

Contents

1.Chapter One

2.Chapter Two

3.Chapter Three

4.Chapter Four

5.Chapter Five

6.Chapter Six

7.Chapter Seven

8.Chapter Eight

9.Chapter Nine

10.Chapter Ten

11.Chapter Eleven

12.Chapter Twelve

13.Epilogue

Chapter One

Felix

Icouldpinpointtheexactday I realized I didn’t love the woman I was intended to marry.

Josette Fogal was objectively one of the most beautiful women I’d ever met. Long blonde hair, sky-blue eyes, willowy figure, and a broad, serene smile.

From our early childhood, strangers remarked on how beautiful she was.

At age four, a scouting agent spotted her on a trip to Vancouver, and soon she was modelling and acting.

She hated all of it.

But I was the only one she told—and she swore me to secrecy.

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