All Chapters of In Love With My Son's Best Friend: Chapter 161 - Chapter 170

JUNE’S POVI figured Luca wouldn’t stay away. Not after the text I’d sent telling him not to come around anymore. We were finished for good. I knew him—he’d show up trying to talk his way back in, and part of me would want to let him. So right then, I decided. I was moving out of state, somewhere he couldn’t find me so easily.The kids deserved to know first. I called Adrian and Marlene and asked them to come over.Adrian showed up first. He let himself in, grabbed a soda from the fridge, and dropped onto the couch like the place still felt like home.“What’s up, Mom?”I sat across from him, hands folded in my lap. “I’m moving. Out of state.”The can stopped halfway to his mouth. “What? Why?”“I need a fresh start. Somewhere that doesn’t remind me of your father or Luca or any of it.”He set the can down carefully, face guarded. “This because of Luca?”“It’s everything.” I pushed my hair back. “I can’t breathe here anymore.”“Where are you going?”“I don’t know yet. Just far.”He stay

JUNE’S POV One Year LaterThe sharp scent of antiseptic reached me before I even stepped through the double doors. It pulled forward memories not of Franklin or the lies that had once chained me, but of the girl who had longed to heal others—the one marriage and motherhood had slowly eclipsed.My heart pressed against my ribs with a steady, hopeful rhythm as I crossed the threshold. A full year had passed since I packed everything I owned and drove away from the life that was dimming me. I had changed my number and shared it with only Adrian and Marlene, and the distance had held even though I knew Luca had been searching.Marlene had mentioned it once during a video call, her voice softening. “He looks lost, Mom,” she’d said, and although it sent a quiet ache through my chest, I reminded myself why the separation had been necessary.Leaving him without a word had been the most difficult choice I had ever made. Harder than walking away from Franklin. Harder than rebuilding from nothi

JUNE’S POVI pushed through the café doors. Cold October air hit my face and yanked me back to the quad. My legs kept moving toward the science building on autopilot while my mind stayed locked on that booth. On the way Luca had looked at me. Steady. Exhausted. Sure. Like the last year had worn him down and sharpened him at the same time.His words kept circling back. "I'll never stop loving you."I pressed my palm flat to my chest. The beat under there wouldn't slow. I'd spent a full year holding that distance. Five minutes with him and it was already crumbling.The lecture hall was already half full when I slipped into the back row. I flipped open my notebook and picked up my pen. Dr. Velez started in on cellular respiration. For the first thirty minutes I actually got decent notes down. Straight muscle memory.Then my brain turned on me anyway.I kept seeing Ashley's name on Luca's lips. The quiet pride when he said she called him Dada. The little girl I'd walked away from so she c

JUNE’S POVHis words sat heavy on my chest.I pressed my mouth right over his heartbeat and held it there.“Good,” I said. “Because I don’t want to share you. Not even a little.”His arms pulled me in tight right then. One hand slid down, grabbed my ass, and yanked me flush against him. His cock already stiffened against my thigh.“Never been anybody else’s since the day I met you,” he said, voice low and rough. “Even when you were gone. Even when I tried to tell myself I should move on. It was always you, June.”I swung one leg over his hip so I half straddled him. His cock jumped against my pussy, still slick from both of us.“Prove it,” I said and nipped at his jaw.Luca groaned. The sound rolled through his chest. “Careful. You keep talking like that and we don’t leave this bed for the rest of the day.”“That a promise?”His eyes went dark. He rolled us fast so I lay on my back and he caged me in. “It’s a fucking guarantee.”He kissed me hard, tongue pushing into my mouth like he

LUCA’S POVI checked the chicken in the oven, then stirred the sauce while the bread stayed warm nearby. A steady calm settled over me in a way I’d never known before.My parents had left me drifting without anything solid to hold onto after they passed. Lena gave me purpose with the baby, but it never quite reached this level of quiet certainty. The life we built once June chose me back felt entirely different.June picked me anyway. Coffee dates stretched into long phone calls, then nights where conversation ran until sunrise. She said yes to me despite the daughter I brought and the ex who would always hover. She chose me even after I caused her to run that first time.We shared the apartment now. Her books lined the shelf next to mine, her toothbrush sat in the bathroom cup. Her laugh filled rooms that used to stay too quiet, so tonight I focused on her as I lit those three candles from the downtown shop.Flowers stood tall in the vase, the good plates waited on the table, and the