You Were Never Just a Crush

Sophie Mason met Caleb Hayes when they were young and spent years convinced he was in love with someone else, so she kept quiet about how she felt and let the years pass without saying anything. Caleb, for his part, had been quietly staking a claim on her the whole time, arguing with anyone who got close to her and pulling her back whenever someone else tried to take her attention. The arrangement held until he walked in on her out with another man. He lost his temper completely. He backed her into the corner of a wall, close enough that she could not step around him, and asked her in a low voice which of them she actually wanted, him or the other man. Sophie, who had spent years assuming the answer did not matter to him, had to decide whether to give it.