Some vows are made in the dark, sealed with nothing more than a promise and a promise kept.Chloe's life looks like the one everyone dreams of: a devoted husband, a beautiful home, a smile made for photographs. Only her lifelong best friend knows what it took to get here, and only she carries the secret still holding it all together.Twenty years ago, on a rooftop in the middle of the night, two teenagers made a promise neither one fully understood the weight of. What began as quiet loyalty grew into something larger: a plan, a transformation, a friendship built to shield one girl from a world that wasn't ready to see her. Their faith taught them that love proves itself through action, and for two decades, that's exactly what this friendship did.Now Chloe is married, and her husband wants nothing more than to start a family. He has no idea why it hasn't happened yet, and no idea what his wife has been keeping from him since the night they met. As the truth edges closer to the surface, the narrator is forced to ask a question she never expected to face: when does standing by someone stop being love, and start being complicity?One conversation will test everything these lifelong friends built together. One conversation will change how they define happily ever after, forever.What would you do?Selfless Vow or Duplicitous Pact is Book One in the Best Friends Short Reads series.