Saved by You (Always & Forever #4)

Tori

They say life gives its hardest battles to its strongest soldiers, but I don’t remember signing up for the war.

One knock at the door changed everything I thought my life would be. Now I’m left grieving the man I loved, the future we planned, and a version of myself I don’t recognize anymore.

The last person I expect to be the one holding me together is Noah Jones, my twin brother’s best friend and my late partner’s brother-in-arms. He’s always been there but now he’s the one person who keeps showing up. Quiet, steady, patient, never asking for anything yet giving me everything I need. He feels safe, familiar, but somewhere between the late nights and the way he looks at me now, something shifts. Falling for him feels like a betrayal to the man I lost… and a risk I’m not sure I can survive. But the way he makes me feel has me wondering that maybe it was meant to be him all along?

Noah

She thinks I’m saving her, but really, I think she’s the one who’s saving me.

I’ve loved Tori Walker in silence for years.

She was always off limits. So, I buried it, locked it down, and became the man everyone could rely on instead. But my last deployment changed everything. Losing Scotty shattered us both, and staying away from her stopped being an option.

I tell myself it means nothing, she just needs a friend to lean on. But the more time we spend together the harder it is to ignore my feelings for her. She’s no longer the woman I can’t have. She is the one person who feels like home. And if loving her means risking everything, I’m starting to think staying silent is the bigger mistake because if everything we have been through led to this, I’d fight in every war just to get to her.

Saved By you is book #4 in the Always & Forever series, part of an interconnected standalone series.

Tropes include:
-Brothers best friend
-Small town
-Military
-Friends to lovers
-Love after loss
-Forbidden
-Dual POV
-Mental health rep
-He falls first
-Found family