Like, Lust, Love by Maya Rose

Ever hear that one where the girl is in love with her best friend, but he falls for someone else?
Turns out the boy who said I belonged to him, wasn’t mine to keep anymore.
So what’s a girl to do but take her bleeding heart and hide?
That could have been the end of us, but this is not that story.
When things fall apart and he needs a friend, I’m there to pick up the pieces.
Never mind that the man I adored is still effortlessly hot. Fierce. Persuasive.
Still treats me like a queen.
But undressing me with his eyes? That’s new.
Ending our fights with his tongue inside my…mouth? Very recent development.
Whispering filthy things in my ear and then doing them to me? Never have we ever…
Our connection is soul-deep and unshakable.
Our chemistry, pure magic.
His confession that he needs me, but can’t ever love me? Our painful truth.
They say to love is to burn. But what is yours, will return.
We’re River and Aiden, and this is where we begin.