Description：
Fifteen years. That's how long Joey Hale loved Ethan Wynn — the boy next door who fed her late-night wontons when her own mother locked her out, who fought her bullies, who quietly paid for the things her family never would. And who turned her down, gently, every single time.
The last message he ever sent her said: I'm getting married. Stop chasing me.
Then, clearing out her childhood home, Joey finds his old phone — and an unsent message that breaks everything open: I like you too. As the truth of who Ethan really was, and what his silence cost him, finally surfaces, Joey must reckon with a love that protected her from the shadows all along.
A heartbreaking slow-burn about devotion, sacrifice, and the words we leave unsaid.
Content note: themes of loss, grief, family abuse. For mature readers.
