Can I Ask You Something?

She spent ten years asking him every question except the one that mattered.

Claire has been in love with her best friend for a decade. She asked whether he was single. Whether he liked anyone. What she meant to him.

She never asked if he loved her.

When he introduces her to his fiancée, Claire’s carefully protected hope finally shatters. One terrible night later, she wakes up in her Toronto apartment with a quiet stranger named Luca watching over her—and absolutely no idea why she trusted him enough to bring her home.

Luca never pressures her. He never plays games. Whenever Claire asks him a question, he simply answers.

Soon, he is staying for dinner.

Sleeping beside her.

Meeting her coworkers.

And whenever someone asks if they're dating, he simply says yes.

There is only one problem.

Claire never realized they were.

After spending ten years waiting for someone else to define their relationship, Claire must finally ask what she wants—and decide whether she is brave enough to say it first.

A tender, fast-paced, cinematic, dialogue-driven contemporary romance with brief narration, filled with playful banter, accidental dating, cultural misunderstandings, and two people learning to say exactly what they mean.

Tropes:

• Accidental dating
• Devoted hero
• Cultural misunderstandings
• Closed-door / fade-to-black

A standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA.