You Loved Me Once

You Loved Me Once

Drew left home chasing a dream—and left Elle behind without answers, without closure, and without a chance to be heard.

Eight years later, he returns to bury his father, care for a brother left severely injured by the same accident, and help hold together a family lodge on the brink—while stepping into the role of guardian for his teenage sister. The life he once walked away from now demands everything he has.

Elle never left.

She stayed where he abandoned their life together—the home they built as college kids, the dog he bought her for her birthday, the future they planned and never finished. When Drew stopped answering her calls, stopped listening, stopped choosing her, she faced the fallout alone… carrying a truth he never knew because his pride refused to hear it.

Now she's back in his world as his brother Evan's in-home nurse and physical therapist—professional, guarded, and forced into daily proximity with the man who once loved her like forever meant something.

Old wounds reopen. Silence turns heavy. Love lingers where stubbornness once ruled.

Because loving someone once doesn't mean you loved them well.
And some damage isn't caused by leaving—but by pretending what you left behind never mattered.

You Loved Me Once is a story of second chances, buried truths, and the devastating cost of pride—and what it takes to finally choose the love that was always there.