Katya has always known how to keep control.Feelings? Compartmentalized.Relationships? Defined.Love? Carefully contained.So when she meets Jake—steady, warm, and entirely too easy to fall for—she does what she always does.She sets boundaries.They can be together.They can care about each other.They just can’t ask for more.Jake says yes.Because being almost hers is better than not having her at all.But some things don’t stay contained. Not when emotions run deeper than the rules allow—and not when someone from Katya’s past starts reminding her that some exceptions were never meant to be temporary.Now Jake is left wondering where he stands.And Katya is left pretending she doesn’t already know the answer.