Best Short Stories Stories & Novels Collection

I've always had an innate aversion to sticky textures—when I wore gloves to learn baking, my teacher snapped, "How can you be a chef if you won't even touch ingredients?" It was Roman who knelt with me in that supply closet, teaching me to identify vanilla by smell and handling raw meat for me. But when his mom yelled in the alley behind their restaurant, "Wearing gloves to cook is just faking—you...

They say unrequited love hurts the most.

They have no idea.

Ten years. Ten years of stealing glances at Caspian Brooks across training pools, memorizing the way his eyes crinkled when he laughed, treasuring every casual touch like it was made of gold. Ten years of pretending friendship was enough while my heart bled every time he looked through me like I was invisible.

I thought if I was good e...