Everything I Couldn't Say

She made him a deal she never intended to honor. He made her a promise she spent ten years running from.When Sunny Kelly transfers to Hargrove High for the last sixteen days of junior year, she has one goal: survive, keep her head down, and get out. She doesn't plan on Drake Powers — the school's untouchable Dark King — stepping into an alley, slashing her bicycle tires, or standing at a microphone in front of four hundred students to publicly pledge himself to her.She definitely doesn't plan on disappearing before he can collect.Ten years later, Sunny is days away from marrying a good, steady man — everything she told herself she needed — when an explosion at her own wedding sends her stumbling through smoke into the arms of a stranger who feels impossibly, dangerously familiar.It's him.Drake Powers has spent a decade building a billion-dollar empire. He's also spent a decade remembering a girl in a faded denim jacket with a sunflower on the pocket who made him a deal, vanished before the ink dried, and left him with a sentence he has never been able to put down: you make the world less dark.He knew it was her the moment he saw her hands.Now he has six weeks, a thirty-million-dollar contract, and absolutely no intention of letting her go again.But Sunny is engaged to someone who loves her. And Drake is complicated — relentless, infuriating, and dangerously certain in the way of people who have decided something and will not be argued out of it. And somewhere between the crackers he kept in his cabinet for a decade, the note she has been carrying in a memory box since she was seventeen, and a night on a rooftop where they finally say everything they couldn't, the wall Sunny has spent her entire adult life building develops a crack she cannot organize away.Everything I Couldn't Say is a slow-burn, second-chance romance about two people who found each other too early, spent ten years becoming who they needed to be, and are now completely out of excuses.The feelings were always there. They just needed time to find the right moment.