The Sweetest Agony: An Unrequited Love Childhood Friends to Lovers Romance

He's not the boy she grew up with anymore.

Jess

I thought I knew my best friend.

Transcontinental video chats didn't do him justice.

He's not an awkward teenager anymore, and one look from him sets my body on edge.

I'm the type of woman who has her life together. Sure, a panic attack here or there might derail my day, but I've got this.

I have my life under control.

I'm not the type of woman to lust after the most important person in my life.

But he knows me better than I know myself-even the anxio...