Until We Become Strangers

Lily arrives at university expecting a fresh start, new friendships, and a life of her own. Instead, her first days bring her into the orbit of Jaegar, a confident and persistent Student Government president whose first impression is anything but charming. She wants distance. He refuses to give up easily.

Over time, however, Jaegar begins to change. His persistence gives way to patience, and Lily slowly discovers a thoughtful, complicated man beneath the confidence that first frustrated her. What begins as an uncomfortable encounter develops into friendship, then love. As their relationship deepens, Lily begins to believe that she has found someone she can trust.

But love does not erase old habits.

Jaegar becomes increasingly secretive, distant, and jealous. His phone becomes a source of unease. His explanations grow harder to accept. Then Lily sees him with another woman, a woman from his past named Selena—and realizes that something has been hidden from her.

Lily does not immediately confront him. Instead, she watches, gathers the truth piece by piece, and struggles with the painful question of whether the relationship she trusted was ever what she believed it to be.

When the truth finally comes into the open, Jaegar asks for another chance. Lily still loves him. She still remembers everything good they shared. But love and trust are not the same thing, and some wounds cannot be repaired simply by admitting that they were caused.

Until We Become Stranger is a contemporary university romance about attraction, changing relationships, trust, betrayal, and the difficult decision to walk away from someone you still love.