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Chapter 73 Back to Where We Chose Each Other
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2025-12-10 05:20:15
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ENEMIES TO LOVERS Thank You for Reading
If you’ve reached this page, it means you chose to spend your time here with these characters, this town, this love story and that means more than I can properly put into words. Stories are a shared experience. They don’t exist fully until someone reads them, feels them, carries them forward. And you did that. Thank you.This book began as a simple idea: what if two people who thought they were enemies were really just terrified of how deeply they could love each other? From that single question grew Brielle and Jaxon, Willow Creek, the chaos of family life, the storms, the forgiveness, the laughter, the quiet moments that matter just as much as the dramatic ones. You walked with them through all of it—through tension and longing, heartbreak and healing, passion and peace.Romance, at its core, isn’t just about desire. It’s about choice. It’s about staying when leaving would be easier. It’s about learning someone’s flaws and loving them anyway. Brielle and Jaxon didn’t fall in love be
ENEMIES TO LOVERS Final Bonus: Always Us
The sun dipped low over Willow Creek, painting the sky in soft streaks of gold and lavender as Brielle stood barefoot in the backyard, grass cool beneath her feet. The air hummed with late-summer warmth, cicadas singing their familiar evening song. The house behind her was alive. Laughter spilled through open windows. A screen door slammed. Someone—probably Rose—shouted, “I didn’t do it!” followed immediately by Lily’s offended gasp. Mason’s deeper voice chimed in, attempting authority he hadn’t quite mastered yet. Emma’s laughter rang out, bright and unrestrained. And somewhere inside, a baby cried. Brielle smiled. She pressed a hand over her heart, letting the moment settle. There had been a time when she’d feared this—fear of loving too deeply, fear of staying, fear of being seen completely. And now, here she was, surrounded by proof that love hadn’t broken her. It had built her. “Mom!” She turned just in time to catch Rose barreling toward her, curls bouncing wildly. “Lily
ENEMIES TO LOVERS BONUS CHAPTER 6: Emma’s First Crush & Mason’s Protective Era
The first sign something was wrong was that Emma Reed, normally the loudest person in the house besides the blender was quiet. Not “I’m plotting something” quiet. Not “I’m hiding a snack” quiet. This was… careful quiet. The kind that made Brielle’s mother instincts stand up like alarm bells. Brielle was rinsing strawberries at the kitchen sink when Emma drifted in, hovering by the counter like a tiny ghost in a glittery headband. She cleared her throat once. Then again. Brielle didn’t turn around right away. She’d learned that if you moved too fast with Emma, Emma retreated into herself like a turtle. So Brielle kept her hands in the water, calm and casual. “Hey, Em,” she said softly. “You okay?” Emma’s voice came out small. “Can I… ask you something?” Brielle dried her hands slowly and turned, leaning her hip against the counter. “Of course.” Emma’s eyes darted toward the hallway, then back. She whispered like the walls had ears. “Not in front of Mason.” Brielle’s brow lift
ENEMIES TO LOVERS Bonus Chapter 5: Caleb’s First Words
The first time Brielle heard it, she thought she imagined it. Because there was no way no way their baby boy had just formed an actual word with his tiny mouth, between a slobbery grin and a dramatic, offended squawk. She froze in the kitchen like someone had pressed pause on her entire life. Jaxon looked up from the sink, hands still covered in soap suds. “What?” Brielle didn’t answer right away. Her eyes locked on Caleb, who was sitting in his high chair like a king on a throne, crumbs on his cheeks, a drool bib hanging crooked, and a little curl flopping onto his forehead like he knew he was cute and planned to use it for evil. Caleb smacked his hands against the tray with the intensity of a tiny drummer auditioning for a rock band. Then he leaned forward—serious face, determined eyes—and let out what sounded like: “Da.” Brielle gasped so hard she almost swallowed air wrong. Jaxon blinked. “What did he say?” Brielle pointed like Caleb had just confessed to a crime. “He… h
ENEMIES TO LOVERS BONUS CHAPTER 4: Lily & Rose: Double Trouble
The first sign that the day was going to go sideways was the suspicious silence. Brielle should’ve known better than to trust silence in a house with five kids—especially when two of them were five-year-old twins with matching grins and a shared love of chaos. She stood at the kitchen counter, cracking eggs into a bowl, while Jaxon flipped pancakes on the stove like it was his personal morning ritual. Emma and Mason were at the table arguing about something that sounded like a “serious ethical debate,” but was probably just a disagreement over whose turn it was to feed the dog. Caleb babbled from his high chair, chewing the corner of a teething toy and glaring like he was personally offended by breakfast taking longer than two minutes. And Lily and Rose? Nowhere. Brielle wiped her hands on a towel and looked up. “Jaxon.” He didn’t even glance away from the pancake pan. “Mm-hmm.” “Where are the twins?” Jaxon’s spatula paused for half a second, then resumed. “In the house.” “T
ENEMIES TO LOVERS Bonus Chapter 3: The Great Hoodie Incident
The call came at 10:47 a.m.Brielle was in the back room of the shop, unpacking a shipment of handmade candles, when her phone buzzed against the counter. She glanced at the screen and sighed softly.WILLOW CREEK ELEMENTARY — FRONT OFFICEShe answered immediately.“Hi, this is Brielle Reed.”“Mrs. Reed,” the secretary said in a carefully neutral voice—the kind that always meant something had happened. “There’s been a… situation involving Emma and Mason.”Brielle closed her eyes.“Are they hurt?”“No, no,” the woman said quickly. “No injuries. Just… feelings.”Of course it was feelings.“I’ll be there in ten minutes,” Brielle said, already reaching for her purse.The Scene of the CrimeEmma sat stiffly in a plastic chair outside the principal’s office, arms crossed, chin lifted in defiance. Mason sat beside her, slouched low, staring at his sneakers with exaggerated innocence.Between them sat the hoodie.Pink. Oversized. Soft fleece. Emma’s favorite.The principal, Mrs. Howard, smiled
ENEMIES TO LOVERS Chapter 32 I Didn’t Know I Could Miss You This Fast
By the time Brielle returned to the shop after their lunch date, she was convinced every customer could see it on her face. The glow. The softness. The heat she carried under her skin like someone had turned her into walking sunlight. It was ridiculous. It was impossible. It was absolutely tr
ENEMIES TO LOVERS Chapter 31 Lunch Breaks Look Different Now
The sunlight streaming into Brielle’s bedroom felt different that morning. Maybe it was because her body still hummed from the night and morning she’d spent wrapped up in Jaxon Reed. Maybe it was because her lips still felt swollen from kissing him until she forgot where she ended and he began. O
ENEMIES TO LOVERS Chapter 30 If This Is a Dream, Don’t Wake Me
Steam still clung to the bathroom walls as Brielle stepped out of the shower, wrapped in nothing but one of Jaxon’s oversized towels. Her hair dripped warmth down her shoulders, her skin flushed from both the heat of the water… and the heat between them that hadn’t calmed even a little. Jaxon foll
ENEMIES TO LOVERS Chapter 29 Steam, Water, Hands… Us
The sound of the shower starting filled the hallway with a soft rush of water, a constant, rhythmic hiss that curled into the air like a whispered invitation. Brielle hadn’t even made it halfway to the kitchen before she realized Jaxon wasn’t behind her anymore. She turned. He stood in the bedro
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