He's spent nineteen years being the one Kaede can always count on—but Kaede has never wanted him to be just a friend.

Eiji Honami has spent nineteen years being the dependable childhood friend and editor that manga artist Kaede Mishima can always count on. Kaede needs Eiji around for everything from looming deadlines to heartbreak—and Eiji is so used to taking care of him that he completely misses the fact that Kaede's attachment has become something much more than friendship.

While Eiji innocently agrees to play stand-in dates and provide endless emotional support, Kaede is quietly trying to make himself impossible to live without. When his longtime one-sided love finally comes out into the open, their comfortable friendship gets tangled up in obsession, desire, and the question of whether Eiji can see Kaede as something more.