All the Time We Didn’t Have

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He was 1,200 miles away. He was also the closest anyone had ever gotten.

Arlo Hayes doesn’t do people. A remote software engineer in Rochester, he’s built his life small on purpose — one apartment, one routine, one carefully maintained silence that keeps the world at a safe distance. He eats standing up. He alphabetizes everything. He hasn’t been touched in two years, and he tells himself that’s a choice.

Leo Vance doesn’t do staying. A travel photographer who lives out of a suitcase, he’s warm, magnetic, and constitutionally incapable of being in one place long enough for anyone to notice he’s lonely. He charms every room he walks into and leaves before anyone can ask him to stay.

When a shared freelance project forces them onto a video call, the chemistry is immediate, undeniable, and completely inconvenient. What starts as work banter becomes late-night texts. Then phone calls that stretch past midnight. Then a conversation that crosses every line — and suddenly they’re falling for each other across 4,000 miles, with nothing between them but screens and the devastating discovery that the person you want most is the one you can’t touch.

The digital intimacy builds until it can’t be contained. When Leo finally flies to Rochester, the collision is everything they imagined and nothing they’re prepared for. But wanting someone and building a life with them are different problems — and when distance, careers, and their deepest wounds collide, they’ll have to decide whether love built through a screen can survive the messy, terrifying reality of being in the same room.

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Long-distance romance with real emotional stakes. Digital intimacy — sexting, phone sex, and video calls that escalate. Opposites attract: controlled introvert x restless extrovert. A quiet, dominant top who takes you apart with his voice. “I’m already in love with you and I haven’t said it yet” energy. Grumpy/sunshine with genuine emotional depth. Competence kink (his project call voice is a WEAPON). Touch starved hero who melts the first time he’s held. A 1,847-mile drive across the country for love. Scorching heat that escalates from screens to skin. A guaranteed HEA earned across every mile.