She found two kids on a rain-slicked street and thought she was rescuing a lost child. He arrived with cold eyes and a claim that toppled her life: the little girl is his daughter, the quiet boy is his blood. Avery Lefevre needs stability and a paycheck; Falcon Stephens needs custody and a fix to a scandal. He offers her an impossible contract: fifteen years as a personal caretaker in exchange for the only thing she can’t bear to lose—seeing the boy she raised. Stay and feed his daughter, or walk away with money and never see Camden again. It’s a bargain with edges. She agrees, but she doesn’t sign away her heart. A war of will begins—sharp reproofs, public humiliation, guardians who demand heirs, friends who scheme, and a stubborn little girl who calls Avery “Mom.” Every day Avery fights to keep what she built, while Falcon learns a baffling, dangerous new skill: getting jealous. This is a fast, addictive modern romance about parenthood colliding with power—where a contract creates proximity, proximity makes them vulnerable, and two broken people learn what it really means to be a family.
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