After Ever After (The Epilogue Chronicles Book 1)
F Sharpe
by Shaina Summerville Juliana Smith
She's spent five years perfecting exactly how much she hates him.
When Mara Wells and Cole Archer are forced together to plan the wedding of the century—her brother's, his best friend's—their long-standing war gets a new battlefield. Close quarters. Shared spreadsheets. Late-night phone calls that last longer than either of them will admit.
The problem with hating someone this thoroughly is that you have to pay attention to them. Every infuriating smirk. Every moment Cole goes quiet and *looks* at her like he's solving a puzzle she didn't know she was. Mara tells herself the heat rising in her chest is anger. She's very good at telling herself things.
Cole knows exactly where the line is—the one that separates sparring partners from something neither of them can take back. He also knows he stopped caring about that line somewhere between argument forty-seven and the night Mara laughed so hard she cried and forgot, for just a moment, to guard herself against him.
The Wells family has always been complicated. Love has always been the most complicated thing about them.
But Mara and Cole aren't in love. They're just two people who can't stop reaching for the same fine line—and one of them is finally ready to cross it.
*Some lines exist to be broken.*