Just Say Yes

Contemporary Friends To Lovers Sweet Romance

By: Molly Arden

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

I left town with big dreams and a bigger fear of settling down. Now I’m back—jobless, directionless, and weeks away from thirty—with nothing to show for my ambitious life but a suitcase and an aching heart.

Chandler Monroe was my best friend. My first love. The boy I made a marriage pact with when we were sixteen. If we were both single at thirty, we’d marry each other.

He never forgot. And now that I’m back in Harbor Ridge, he’s daring me to say yes.

It’s supposed to be a joke. A harmless practice date. A pretend engagement that spirals out of control faster than small-town gossip. We make rules. We set boundaries. But none of them stop the way he looks at me like he’s already all in.

Every moment with Chandler pulls me deeper into the kind of life I never thought I’d want—the one I ran from. But Seattle is still calling, and my new career is waiting. If I fall for him now, it means risking everything I built. And if I walk away again, I might lose the one person who’s always felt like home.

We said yes as a joke.

I just didn’t expect it to start feeling real.