Secretly Yours

by Tessa Quinn

The Ones We Couldn't Save · Book 7

I just called out a grieving ex-soldier in the middle of a parent-teacher conference. Wes Stone showed up late—again—arms crossed and jaw locked like the world owed him something. But his nephew, Theo, was shaking when I found him. And someone needed to fight for that little boy. I didn’t expect Wes to show up the next day with a quiet apology. Or the day after that, offering to partner on a school project. And I definitely didn’t expect the way he started looking at me—like he wasn’t just watching me with Theo… He was watching me. I told myself not to fall. That men like him don’t choose women like me. But then he brought me a drawing—one with three people holding hands—and said “Stay. Not just for him… For me.”

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