?She had spent her entire life one step behind him.
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?He was her best friend, her lifelong rival, and the boy who always seemed to reach the finish line first. The grades. The awards. The recognition. No matter how hard she tried, he was always just ahead of her.
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?But when the boy she had known all her life suddenly becomes someone she is expected to call her brother, everything changes.
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?Living under the same roof brings their old rivalry back to life, along with feelings neither of them knows how to name. Because she has always believed that being second meant she was never enough.
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?But what if she had been looking at the wrong finish line all along? What if being second to him never meant she was less? And what if the person she spent her whole life trying to outrun was the very person waiting for her at the finish line?