Chancing Destiny

Christopher Betise was always my dream guy-and that's all he was ever supposed to be. A dream. Untouchable. Impossible.

Until the day I found out... I was his dream girl. And everything changed.

I was seven. He was ten.
He told me to call him Chris. I stubbornly refused.
Maybe it was just a childhood crush-after all, what seven-year-old truly falls in love?

But as the years went on, that innocent flutter grew into something deeper. Something sharper.
Something almost painful. Because while I was falling harder every day, Christopher was the charismatic playboy everyone adored-and I was just the annoying best friend of his annoying little sister.
I spent years wishing I could be the girl who caught his eye.
And then one day... I was.

She's my sister's best friend. She's off-limits. Always has been.
I watched her grow up, never realizing the moment would come when I couldn't look away anymore.
Gone is the cute, stubborn girl I used to tease.
In her place?
A woman who takes my breath away... and makes this non-committal player realize he's been playing the wrong game all along.

The pull between us is magnetic, overwhelming, and dangerously complicated.
Because the past doesn't just disappear, and the baggage we both carry threatens to tear apart the delicate, fragile thing we're trying to build.

Falling for each other was the easy part. Surviving it? That's where the real fight begins.