Best friends and roommates Lucy Ross and Blake Foster tell each other everything—except that they’re in love with one another. They’ve been each other’s person for over a decade, but their world is turned upside down when Tucker Avery comes to Willowbrook and begins to date Lucy.
Blake begins to pull away, assuming he’s missed his opportunity with Lucy. As things continue south for Blake and Lucy, Tucker asks her the question that would change all of their lives:
What if you could have us both?
After an adventurous and experimental camping trip, the three of them leave the woods as a trio. Because of Blake’s homophobic parents and the town’s opinion of Lucy’s dating tendencies, the three of them decide to wait to make sure things are solid before letting anyone else know they’re all together.
Their plan falls apart when a coworker calls out Blake and Lucy on their behavior, and the news that they’re together spreads like wildfire. Now, despite what is happening privately, Tucker’s left looking like the loser ex who hangs around Lucy and the guy the town always hoped she’d end up with.
But as the weeks go by, the situation weighs on Tucker, and it’s he who starts pulling away.
Can Tucker keep being their dirty little secret as everyone around them gives him strange and pitying looks? Can Blake bring himself to come out so they can all be public? Will the three of them come up with a solution that makes them all happy, or could they lose Tucker?
Tropes: new guy in town x roommates in love, being kept the secret partner, camping trip, chased through the woods, small town romance, ‘what if you could have us both?’, sword crossing, why choose romance
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Content Warnings
Drunk Driving- One of the MMCs mentions a friend who died in a drunk driving accident as for why he doesn’t drink at all when he’s driving, historical, off-page
Intoxicated Hook Up- A pair of friends hooks up after getting drunk at a Halloween party. They are aware of what they are doing but are still slightly drunk.
BDSM- There are references to BDSM practices including: impact play, restraint usage, D/s roles
Parental/Spousal Death- Historical. Several side characters have parents or a spouse who have died. None of the deaths occur on page. Most are referenced in passing.
Strained Relationship with Parents- A character’s parents are religious and fervent in their beliefs, try to control his actions. Another character’s parent were controlling and held her to a ridiculous standard, so she moved out the day after graduation.
Somnophilia- Inappropriate touching by both of the MMCs. MMC and FMC frequently cuddle, sometimes waking up in compromising positions. During one night, he is fully touching her and grinding against her, but he’s asleep. It’s not unwanted by her, and she doesn’t want to embarrass him by waking him up. One MMC wakes with the other’s arm around his waist as he’s naked; he doesn’t pull away upon waking up. It’s not unwanted by the receiver.
Sexual Coercion- Mention of an incident when a character was attempted to be coerced into letting someone into her loft/bed.
Violence- A well-known womanizer is punched in the face for trying to coerce the female boarder of his friend to invite him into her bed. That friend breaks his nose. The FMC considers rebreaking it as she’s annoyed by his whining about it all morning while she’s working.
Sexual Harassment- Mentions of sexual harassment toward the FMC from customers.
Homophobia- The parents of one of the MMCs are highly homophobic. A rumor is spread by a woman whom he turns down sleeping with at the last minute, and she claims that there must be a reason why. It’s not directly stated but heavily implied. The parents call him and threaten to disown him. He waits to come out to be with the other MMC in the face of his parents disowning him and the opinions of a small town where everyone knows everyone’s business. He tells his father to leave when he shows up to demand he end his relationship with a man.
Explicit Sex
Shonna Preston 