Chapter One - Only One Way to Know

Leo Carter is rich, charming, and allergic to sincerity. Lila Park is quiet, calculating, and completely immune to boys like him. At least, that's what she tells herself.

At Durham, their lives collide-quietly at first, then with the kind of force you don't walk away from unmarked. He's taken. She's unavailable. But somehow, they keep choosing each other in all the small, dangerous ways.

A messy, slow-burn story about feelings you can't name, people you can't quite let go of, and the emotional fallout of trying to keep things casual when your heart wants something else.