My Online Ex Is My Best Friend’s Uncle

I dumped my online boyfriend, blocked him everywhere, and thought I’d never see him again. I was wrong. Six months later, I showed up at my best friend’s house and met her uncle—the cold, untouchable professor everyone was afraid of. Adrian Hayes. The man I had secretly dated online. The man I lied to about my name, my age, my school… everything. He didn’t recognize my face. But the moment he heard me speak, he knew. “Lena.” My blood ran cold. I thought I had erased every trace of our relationship. I thought he would hate me. Instead, he looked at me and said, “I searched for you for six months.” Now the man I once abandoned wants me back—and this time, I can’t hide behind a screen. Because the biggest secret isn’t that I was his online girlfriend. It’s that I’m starting to fall for him again.