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I'll Always Be Watching
Paperback
Publisher: Frank Spreader
Published: Nov 5 2026
Pages: 158
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Francis Jonathan Spreader-John to anyone who matters-has spent a decade away from the city that raised him. Now twenty-five, newly hired on probation at a downtown tower, and riding a motorcycle he can barely afford, he returns for a middle-school reunion he almost skipped. Ten years is a long time to stay invisible. He's tired of it.
The night begins with a near-miss at a red light and ends with old faces made new: Rico's easy recognition, Lynda's blunt appraisal, Merry's lingering glance, and Dea Sirianni-still the quiet center of every room, still the girl who once noticed the way he looked at her. One careful smile, one shared number, and the old ache starts burning again.
By Monday the ache has company. Christy, his team lead, is sharp, stacked, and far too good at reading the heat in his eyes. What begins as orientation blurs into something that feels like a test he never studied for. Meanwhile Dea's texts pull him toward rooftops and stadium lights, toward a star inked on his palm and the dangerous hope that this time he might actually get to keep what he wants.
Desire has never been simple for John. It lives in the vibration of the bike between his legs, in the press of bodies on a crowded elevator, in the private places where memory and fantasy collide. As the week unfolds-across apartments, offices, late-night rides, and the quiet spaces between friends who know too much-every choice tightens the same impossible knot: the girl who remembers how he used to look at her, the woman who sees exactly what he wants now, and the future neither of them may be free to choose.
Some hungers don't fade with time.
Some doors stay unlocked.
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