She's raising her niece while her sister is in recovery. He's unexpectedly the perfect instant dad. But when her sister comes back, a secret none of them saw coming threatens everything.
Rick Bryant is all winter with everyone else. Monosyllables, permanent scowl, the kind of man who builds cabinets with the patience of a saint and doesn't have time for your jokes or your excuses.
But with me, on the best days, I get to see a different side of him. A plate he fills before I ask. A jacket held without comment. A voice that drops half a register when it's just us. Warmer. Softer. Almost something. And every time I think he's about to cross that line, he pulls back. He puts the wall up so fast I wonder if I imagined the crack in it.
Then my sister checks into a treatment facility and leaves me with her five-year-old daughter, and Rick just — shows up. He starts by fixing my sink, then he's offering to take Charlie to school and buying us groceries.
Whatever warmth Rick was saving for me, he's giving it to Charlie now too. Everything feels right for the first time in years. Charlie is happy, I have help. Rick is close. I can almost stop bracing for the next thing to go wrong.
Then Maren comes home. And when she walks into the kitchen, Rick's face does something I've never seen. He knows her. And from the way my sister won't look at me, she knows him too.
Nothing this good was ever going to last.
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