Always Been His (MAINE HEARTS: Small-Town Billionaire Romance)

My best friend’s older brother was my first love. Now I’m sleeping across the hall from him.
The world knows me as Echo.
Grayson Douglas still knows me as Sienna.

When my manager adds another tour without my consent, I walk out of Madison Square Garden, turn off my phone, and catch a midnight train home to Maine.

I need rest. Privacy. A chance to remember who I was before millions of strangers decided who I should be.

I don't need to sleep across the hall from my best friend's older brother.

Grayson is my first love, my most forbidden secret, and the man I’ve never stopped writing songs about.

Now he is a billionaire CEO with grease on his hands, grief on his shoulders, and two years of anger he refuses to explain.

He says he doesn't want me in his house.

But he still wakes at 5:58 every morning for ninety stolen seconds with me.

Then Grayson finally tells me why he hates me.

“I waited for you. Hours. I sat there for hours like an idiot waiting for you, and you never came.”

There's only one problem.

“No, you’re wrong. I waited for you.”

One night. Two broken hearts. Two completely different versions of the moment that destroyed us.

Every fight between us feels like foreplay. Every touch feels unfinished. And every memory reminds me why I never really moved on.

But my label is closing in, my best friend has no idea about our secret history, and the truth about Boston could either set us free or break us all over again.

I come home to reclaim my voice, my music, and my life.

Admitting I’ve never stopped loving Grayson could cost me the friendship that feels like family.

Trusting him could cost me my heart all over again.

The world may think it owns Echo.

But Grayson has always loved Sienna.

And this time, I have to decide what I am willing to risk to choose us.

ALWAYS BEEN HIS is a spicy, emotional best friend's older brother romance featuring second-chance yearning, forced proximity, a protective billionaire hero, secret first-love history, no cheating, and a guaranteed HEA.