My Best friends Cousin

He was always the one I wasn’t allowed to want. Shelb has spent every summer at Lake Manor, sharing sunlit days, secret swims, and endless laughter with her best friend. But this year, everything feels different — because Hethan, her best friend’s off-limits cousin, is here too. Quiet, golden, and impossible to ignore, he’s the boy she’s been stealing glances at for months, the one she knows she shouldn’t fall for. Rules are simple: some people are strictly off-limits. But rules were made to be broken under summer skies. Between bonfires and carnival rides, quiet moonlight walks and stolen kisses on the Ferris wheel, what starts as a forbidden crush blooms into something deeper, sweeter, and more powerful than either of them ever dared to imagine. When the secrets can no longer stay hidden, they’ll have to choose: let fear tear them apart… or risk everything for a love that was always meant to be theirs.