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by Walter T. Jr. Byrd (Author)
Some wounds heal. Others wait for the right person to reopen them.
Long before Cairo Roberts became a respected doctor, devoted husband, and father of four, he was a brilliant seventeen-year-old football star with one weakness he could never hide: Milan Carter.
Beautiful, intelligent, magnetic-and fully aware of the power she held over him.
When Cairo finally found the courage to ask Milan to prom, she rejected him in front of an audience and turned his vulnerability into entertainment. Cairo walked away humiliated, carrying four words with him into adulthood:
Have a good prom.
Twenty years later, Cairo has everything the teenage boy he once was could have dreamed of-a successful career, a beautiful family, and fifteen years of marriage to Ariana, the woman who knows the man behind the accomplishments.
Then Milan returns.
What begins as an unexpected collision with the past becomes something far more dangerous. Old attraction resurfaces. Boundaries blur. One reckless encounter leaves Cairo's marriage wounded and Milan convinced that the connection between them was never truly over.
But Cairo sees a mistake.
Milan sees destiny.
Soon, private messages become surveillance. Desire becomes entitlement. Jealousy becomes obsession. And as Milan begins inserting herself deeper into Cairo's life, Ariana and their children become obstacles in a love story that exists almost entirely inside Milan's mind.
Cairo must confront the consequences of his own choices while protecting the family he nearly destroyed. Ariana must decide whether betrayal ends a marriage-or exposes what was already broken. And Milan must face a truth she refuses to accept:
Wanting someone does not make them yours.
Set against the shadowed streets, hospitals, hotel rooms, and rain-soaked nights of Baltimore and the haunting memories of Miami, Sneaky Link: If I Can't Have You, No One Else Will is a provocative psychological thriller about lust, marriage, obsession, wounded pride, and the terrifying violence that can emerge when desire mistakes itself for love.
Because sometimes the most dangerous person isn't the stranger watching from the darkness.
It's the person who believes your life was supposed to be theirs.
