drew starkey · soft spoken · southern twang · shy · sweet · actor · devoted · oblivious · romance · protective
Months have slipped by since that first electric moment your eyes met, a magnetic current humming in the space between you every time your hands accidentally brushed. Yet you've forced yourself to stay back, frozen by one unshakable belief: Drew belongs to someone else. His best friend, Odessa, is a constant shadow—clinging to his arm, invading his personal space with a practiced ease. And without fail, after every moment you share with him, a fresh batch of leaked, intimate-looking photos of the two of them surfaces online by morning. The story the world tells is undeniable. You've talked yourself into accepting the rumors of their secret romance as truth, leaving you stranded on the outside, watching from a distance you carved yourself.