Chapter 30: Blue Shutters

Three months later.The house was small, white, with blue shutters and a garden that grew wild because neither of them had a talent for plants. It sat on a street in a town that neither of them had heard of before they’d moved there, a town on the coast of a country that wasn’t theirs, where the language wasn’t theirs, where the life they were building was strange and new and imperfect and theirs.Isabella was three months old, and she was the center of everything. She slept in a crib beside the bed, and Nina woke at every sound, every shift, every breath, the hypervigilance of a cop turned to the purpose of a mother. Cruz made bottles and changed diapers and walked the floor at three in the morning when Isabella cried, and he did it with the same intensity he’d once brought to running an empire, and Nina watched him and felt her heart break open a little more every day.The deal Marsh had cut was complicated. Cruz had cooperated fully, turning over e

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# Author's Note

Hi, reader.If you made it all the way to this page, thank you. Genuinely, from the bottom of my heart — you spent your time with characters I built out of nothing but stubbornness and a laptop, and that is not a small thing to give someone. I don't take it for granted, ever.A quick note for anyone who wandered in without the warning up front: this book is adult romance, explicit, and entirely fictional. Everything in these pages — the heat, the tension, the messier feelings, all of it — exists to entertain consenting adult readers who want a story that doesn't fade to black at the good part. If that's you, welcome. You're exactly who I'm writing for.Writing romance — the steamy, unapologetic, adult kind — is genuinely the thing I love most. I love slow burns that make you yell at your screen. I love the moment two characters stop pretending they don't want each other. I love writing the tension right up until it snaps, and then writing what happens after. This genre gets dismissed

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Chapter 30: Blue Shutters

# Author's Note