Off Limits

ChizobaEstelle NewAdult

At seven years old, Riley and Ethan Parker’s birthday takes an unexpected turn when their parents bring home an orphaned boy named Owen.Owen has just lost both of his parents in a car accident.The Parkers don’t treat him like a guest. They make him family.From that day forward, Riley, Ethan, and Owen grow up together. Same school. Same swimming lessons. Same dance classes. Same birthdays. Same house. Same childhood.Ethan and Owen become inseparable.Riley becomes the girl they constantly tease.For years, there is nothing complicated about their relationship.Until Riley leaves for a two-year scholarship in the USA.When she returns at twenty, the childhood she remembers is gone.Ethan is becoming the man he wants to be.Owen has transformed himself through boxing and the gym, carrying the anger and guilt he has never managed to escape.And Riley suddenly discovers something she was never supposed to feel:She wants Owen.But Owen is the one person she cannot have.Because Ethan has already made his rule clear:Anyone but Riley.To Ethan, Riley isn’t just his sister.She’s his twin.His other half.And nobody—not even the brother he chose—gets to cross that line.But attraction doesn’t care about rules.And when Riley and Owen begin secretly falling for each other, they are forced to decide how much they’re willing to risk for something Ethan would never forgive.He was never supposed to become the man she wanted.Owen came into Riley Parker’s life when they were seven.Her parents took him in after the death of his parents, and from that day forward, he became part of the family.Her childhood.Her memories.Her life.Her brother Ethan’s best friend.Her brother.At least, that’s what she was supposed to see when she returned from two years in the USA.But Owen isn’t the boy she remembers.And Riley isn’t the girl who left.Now she’s looking at him differently.Wanting him differently.And Ethan has made one thing perfectly clear:His sister is off limits.But what happens when the one person she shouldn’t want becomes the only person she can’t stay away from?Some rules are made to be broken.Others come with a price.And Riley is about to find out what hers will cost.

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