Five years post-Hogwarts, Y/N’s life is a whirlwind of toddler tantrums and the quiet weight of single motherhood. She has no room for the ghosts of her school days until she literally trips over Draco Malfoy in Diagon Alley. At twenty-one, Draco is looking for a purpose that his family’s gold can’t buy, and he finds it in the exhausted gaze of a woman who has no time for his pedigree. While Y/N is wary of letting anyone into her son’s world, Draco is determined.