Rierie

Chase: the petulant child who failed to grow up properly (yes there's a reason for that but still not make everything right)
And Josh: the guy who are grown up, capable, responsible, but sometimes a slave to his desire

It makes perfect sense why they got together

I stopped reading at 40 something because idk the ML wasn't it for me, also everyone feels too 2D and the only character which was interesting was Maholon somehow. I feel suffocated imagining if i were the FL being with the ML like this, not sure why when I've read so many more MLs with black flags, so far far worse than the ML here. I'm confused myself