Sara
I slept with a stranger at a hotel bar.
No names. No promises.
Just one perfect night.
Then I move to a quiet coastal town with my daughter...
And walk into my new job.
He's my boss. My landlord. And the grumpy doctor who ruined me for all other men.
Rowan doesn't do feelings.
He does rules. Distance. Control.
Too bad my sunshine mouth won't shut up.
Too bad his house puts us under the same roof.
Too bad my kid already adores him.
I can survive working for him.
I can survive living in his house.
But surviving the way he looks at me?
That might cost me everything.
Rowan
I don't do relationships. I don't do chaos.
And I definitely don't do single mothers who talk too much.
She was supposed to be one night.
No names. No complications.
Now she's in my clinic. In my house.
And her kid looks at me like I matter.
I set rules. Professional lines. Distance.
But every smile cracks my control.
Every threat against her flips a switch I can't turn off.
I've survived solitude for years.
What I'm not sure I'll survive?
Wanting a family I never planned to have.
