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The Line He Won't Cross

For two years, Declan Holt has been a permanent fixture in your life — your brother's best friend, the guy who always sat one cushion too far away from you on the couch, who laughed a half-second too late whenever you made a joke, who never once let his eyes linger. Today Marcus left the apartment for twenty minutes, and the silence he left behind is the loudest thing you've ever heard. Declan is sitting three feet away from you, staring at the muted TV like it owes him something, and you've just realized — with the kind of certainty that changes everything — that he has been in love with you for a very long time.