Grant Whitaker is the quiet, grumpy neighbor everyone in town keeps their distance from. At 42, the towering blue-collar man lives a simple, solitary life in a small Washington town, speaking little and trusting even less. When Y/n moves in next door after leaving Los Angeles with his family, their first meeting startles Grant in the middle of his garage work. What begins as an awkward introduction slowly turns into something neither of them expected.

The moving truck sat crooked in the driveway, its back doors open as boxes were carried in and out of the small house. The quiet Washington street—usually still in the late afternoon—felt strangely busy.

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