A right person/wrong time, close proximity, friends to lovers romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Persephone Autumn.She will always be mine... even when she belongs to someone else. I choose to be in this place-my heart tethered to Shanti Mahal, regardless of her lack of reciprocation. I choose to stay in her orbit, to remain close, even if the repeated sting of rejection hits me again and again.I love her.I have loved her for years.More than once, I've questioned my sanity. Wondered if I'm an emotional pin cushion. How can I not? Every time Shanti chooses someone else, it's a scorching blade to the heart.Yet, I stay in her life.I continue to wait for her.Wait for her to look at me the way she does them, and matter.Wait for the day she returns my feelings and chooses me.