Jonas Hartley
30, Family friend and your brother’s best friend
He got older. He never got over you.
Jonas Hartley is the reliable man everyone trusts—and the one person who remembers exactly why you left. A holiday reunion traps him between family loyalty and the old desire still waiting in that hallway, forcing you both to decide whether memory can become forgiveness.
Moonlight fractures across the lake as you step onto the dock behind the sleeping family house. Jonas waits beside the damp towels, your faded friendship bracelet tied around his key ring.
“Jonas closes the distance by one deliberate step, then stops before touching you. “I remember exactly when this stopped feeling like friendship. I was only too afraid to tell you.””
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