Almost Yours

Liam Morel never planned to fall for the woman his best friend left behind.
But grief doesn’t ask permission and neither does love.

In the aftermath of loss, Liam and Élise Adler build something that almost feels like stability.
A shared life in Geneva. A promise that looks like devotion. A love that feels… safe.

Until Sophie Dubois comes back.

Sophie doesn’t believe in safe.
She believes in truth. In desire. In the kind of connection that doesn’t fade just because it should. And Liam has never forgotten her.

As the past refuses to stay buried, Élise begins to see the cracks and finds herself drawn to Dr. Theo Marchetti, a man who offers something Liam never could: peace without pretending.

This isn’t a story about betrayal.
It’s about what happens when love is no longer enough.

In a world built on expectations, loyalty, and illusion, four people are forced to choose:

Stay… and slowly disappear.
Or leave… and lose everything.

Publication note:

Almost Yours is part of The Almost Series and contains the first part of a story originally published in the novel Burn With Me by Cara Ravelli.

ELISE

I loved a ghost before I loved Liam Morel.
When Noah died, Liam saved me.
But love born from grief always cracks eventually.
Then Sophie appeared and I saw the man I loved come alive for someone else.
I tried everything to keep him: submission, silence, perfection.
I gave him everything he asked for… until there was nothing left of me.

SOPHIE
I knelt for him once. Not for pleasure. For mercy.
Four years later, I came back to finish what I started.
But in Geneva, the Sceau Blanc controls everything—marriages, alliances, legacies.
Liam Morel is their perfect creation.
With me, he stops pretending.
And I already know what loving him will cost.