If not you

They made a promise when they were If we’re still single by thirty, we’ll marry each other.

It was supposed to seem like a joke. A pact. Something to laugh about in the years to come. But both secretly wanted it from the start.

Brielle Thompson has spent her life chasing stability—valedictorian, top of her class in college, and now a rising biomedical engineer with one help find a cure for cancer, the disease that stole her younger brother far too soon. She’s always been the girl with a plan. Until now.

Elliot is her blue-collar best friend with calloused hands, a quiet heart, and the unshakable belief that he’d never be good enough for a girl like her. The brilliant girl from across the tracks and the boy who barely graduated and struggled with dyslexia.

Now, nearing thirty, everything is different.

Elliot now owns one of the most successful electrical companies in the state, and he’s built a life he’s proud of–one that he feels could make him worthy of her.

Brie’s life, meanwhile, is falling apart. Her long-term relationship ends in heartbreak when she discovers she’s unexpectedly pregnant. And her father is dying.

When she shows up at Elliot’s door—pregnant and lost—the lines they’ve always drawn between friendship and something more begin to blur with every shared meal, late-night laugh, and stolen glance. She doesn’t want to ruin the life he’s built with a baby that isn’t his.

But he refuses to let her face it alone.

As they navigate pregnancy, grief, and the weight of years of unspoken love, one question lingers in the space between

What if it was never just a pact? What if it was always you?