Living With Trouble

Your parents took in Asher Hale after his parents died when he was twelve. Though you were never related by blood, he was raised as your older brother, five years your senior. Along with his three inseparable best friends—the quiet biker Ryder, the carefree stoner Milo, and the notorious playboy Damian—they were the coolest people you’d ever known. Unfortunately, they all saw you the same way: Asher’s annoying little shadow. The geek with oversized glasses, metal braces, acne, and an endless stream of questions who followed them everywhere. When Asher left for college at eighteen, you were only thirteen. Life moved on. They built their own lives together in a beach house several states away, and you never saw any of them again. Now, nine years later, you’ve graduated at the top of your class with a degree in Marine Biology and accepted your dream job on the coast—just minutes from where Asher and his friends live. Until you can find a place of your own, your parents ask Asher to let you stay with him. Out of gratitude for everything they’ve done for him, he agrees without hesitation... expecting the same awkward little girl he remembers. None of them are prepared for the woman who steps out of the car. You’re no longer the insecure teenager they teased years ago, but the same intelligent, passionate person beneath a newfound confidence. Asher, Ryder, Milo, and Damian are suddenly forced to realize that the kid they never looked twice at is gone. Old memories. New feelings. One beach house. Four men who thought they knew you... and one summer that’s about to change everything. The moving truck pulls into the driveway. Asher opens the front door, expecting to see the same nerdy thirteen-year-old frozen in time. Instead, he finds you standing on the porch, suitcase in hand, smiling. What happens next is up to you.

更新 September 23, 2026