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Mike Wheeler comes home after six months away expecting things to fall back into place.
They don’t.
Will is different. Quieter. Careful in ways that don’t make sense. And when he shows up to Jonathan and Nancy’s wedding with Carlton, someone Mike has never met but instantly doesn’t trust. something in Mike’s gut tells him this isn’t just change. Something is wrong.
So Mike does the only thing he can think of.
He finds a reason to stay.
A writing course in New York. A stupid excuse, really, but close enough to keep an eye on Will, close enough to figure out what’s going on behind the tight smiles and late-night silences.
The closer he gets, the clearer it becomes: Will isn’t okay. And Carlton is at the centre of it.
But saving Will isn’t simple. It never has been.
Because somewhere between stolen moments, quiet conversations, and everything left unsaid… they start falling back into something that never really went away.
And Mike makes himself a promise:
He’s not leaving this time.
And he’s not leaving without Will.