She Made Me Fall

by Tessa Quinn

Hoping to Fall · Book 2

I came to teach his daughter. Then the storm hit— And I got stuck in the house he built to keep everyone out. Elias Thorne doesn’t talk much. But his little girl clings to me like she’s been waiting for someone to stay. So I read her stories. Make her pancakes. Sit beside her on movie night. And slowly… he starts sitting beside us too. He tells me about the woman he lost. I tell him about the man who left. And somewhere between candlelight and bedtime, we almost kiss. Almost. But when the rain clears, I pack to go— And he lets me. Two days later, he shows up on my doorstep. Clara asleep in his arms. Rain in his hair. And he says, “I built that house to keep the world out. But when you left… it stopped feeling like home.”

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