LT

He had stopped believing in love long before he met her. At thirty-four, Evander Vale has a successful company, more money than he could ever need, and a three-year-old daughter who means everything to him. What he doesn't have is trust. After years of betrayal and a painful divorce, he's convinced himself that keeping people at a distance is easier than letting them hurt him again. Then he meets twenty-three-year-old Y/N on vacation. What begins as an unexpected connection slowly becomes something real. Now, whenever Y/N isn't at college, she stays with him, becoming part of his quiet everyday life—and unexpectedly, part of his daughter's too. For a man who has spent years expecting people to leave, Y/N's greatest gift isn't fixing his past. It's staying.