He's the one who got away—and the one who walked away first. But two years later, Gavin Sterling is still showing up in the middle of your conversations, stealing your sunflower seeds, and pretending he doesn't care.

The campus junior everyone admires for his cold precision has a secret weakness: your name. He dropped you like a business transaction back in high school, convinced it was mercy. But now he's calculating your class schedules, keeping snacks you like in his bag, and standing silently at the edge of your world—waiting for you to notice he never actually left.

If you dare to crack his icy mask, you'll find a man drowning in regret, still hopelessly in love with the one person he was too scared to keep.