By Your Side

<p><strong>Two childhood friends.</strong></p><p><strong>One long forgotten pact.</strong></p><p><strong>And the almost kiss that changed everything.</strong></p><p></p><p>I never planned on falling for Hunter Cassidy.</p><p>He'd been my best friend forever-the steady loyal guy who fixed everything that broke in my life. My bar. My car. My heart even when I swore I'd never let anyone near it again.</p><p></p><p>After my divorce love was the last thing on my list. I had kids to raise a business to save and a thousand pieces of myself to put back together. But then Hunter reminded me of the pact we had made in high school-the one where we promised that if we were still single at forty we would marry each other-and suddenly nothing felt safe anymore.</p><p></p><p>Because the man I once called safe was now the one who made my pulse race.</p><p> The one who waited for me outside my bar at closing time to make sure I was okay.</p><p> The one who looked at me like I had already been his all along...</p><p></p><p>Losing him as a friend would break me.</p><p> But risking my heart on him? That might finally make me whole. </p>