We Can't Be Friends (Close To You (Duology))

A fake dating x roommates to lovers slow burn romance.

Callum Sullivan is the definition of all smiles: cool, calm, and collected.

Leaving London for the Chicago opening of Hayes Hotels, Callum is desperate to continue being the person everyone expects him to be—a beloved son and brother, the chief finance officer of his best friend’s hotel empire—except when it comes to love. He’s sworn off it till his mother gives him an ultimatum.

Chloe Henry is the opposite: messy, loud, and overprotective.

Nine years ago, Chloe’s life changed, and not for the better. Leaving home for Chicago, she rooted herself into a picture-perfect life—an impressive job, great friends, and the cutest dog. Years later, that life is cracking.

Stumbling into each other’s life is merely on the foundation of being friends of friends. Or so they thought. As an undeniable friendship and attraction strikes between the two, they find themselves both in need when Chloe’s apartment floods. Callum takes her in on one condition, be his fake girlfriend.

Realizing they are more alike than anyone would know, slowly they uncover the person they’ve shielded everyone else from—the truth of secrets they’ve buried and pasts they both are running from.

As the outline of their friendship blurs, can their relationship stretch past the hurt they keep? Or will they both agree that they can’t be friends?