Second-chance romance with a hot, guarded MMC who’s secretly the yearniest yearner.
Lauren ‘Ren’ Baker thought she’d moved on. Big city, career, husband—check, check, check. But then it all fell apart. Now she’s scrubbing off every box she ever ticked, back in her hometown, waiting for a divorce, sleeping in her teenage bedroom, and face-to-face with her first love—the one she never really got over.
Gio Regali likes to keep himself controlled—flashy car, private offline life, measured emotions. Love? That’s off-limits. Especially now. Seeing Ren again throws his carefully balanced world into chaos, awakening feelings he’s spent years trying to bury.
Their attraction is immediate and impossible to ignore—just like it was all those years ago. But while Ren sees their reunion as a second chance at the future they once imagined, Gio is convinced they can’t have one. Guarded and stubborn, he’s hiding a life-changing diagnosis that’s left him convinced he’s too damaged to be loved. As he fights to push her away, Ren is left wondering why a man who so clearly wants her refuses to let her back in.
As old wounds reopen and long-buried truths finally come to light, they’ll have to decide whether the future they lost was fate… or merely Fate Interrupted.
