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🩰 a burn so slow, you’ll throw the book

🪶 right person, wrong time

🩰 golden retriever mmc

🪶 black cat fmc

🩰 he falls first & harder

🪶 childhood friends to lovers

🩰 past & present parts - spans 17 years

🪶 bi mmc

🩰 he gets a tattoo for her

🪶 unrequited love

🩰 arranged marriage but not the mcs

🪶 road trip

🩰 close proximity

🪶 one bed

🩰 ballet dance partners

She will always be mine… even when she belongs to someone else.

I choose to be in this place—my heart tethered to Shanti Mahal, regardless of her lack of reciprocation. I choose to stay in her orbit, to remain close, even if the repeated sting of rejection hits me again and again.

I love her.

I have loved her for years.

More than once, I’ve questioned my sanity. Wondered if I’m an emotional pin cushion. How can I not? Every time Shanti chooses someone else, it’s a scorching blade to the heart.

Yet, I stay in her life.

I continue to wait for her.

Wait for her to look at me the way she does them, and matter.

Wait for the day she returns my feelings and chooses me.

**Tethered Hearts is a standalone story in the Stone Bay series.

Release Date: October 23, 2025

Publisher: Between Words Publishing LLC

Print Pages: 436