๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ง never expected to start college with a five-month-old daughter on her hip, but sheโs determined to build a better future for them both. At just eighteen, she balances classes, motherhood, and survival with a quiet strength no one seesโnot that she has time for anyone to notice. Love isnโt on her mind. Stability is. Safety is. Her daughter is. But then thereโs him. ๐๐๐ข ๐๐ฅ๐ข ๐๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ is nineteen, sharp-edged, reckless, and always keeping the world at a distance. Heโs the kind of guy people stay away fromโthe one with the temper, the attitude, the walls too high to climb. But the moment he meets Aulora, something in him shifts. Something softens. Maybe even breaks. He doesnโt know how to handle it. He only knows he wants to. When a tiny baby girl melts the heart he didnโt know he hadโand her mother unknowingly steals the restโKai finds himself drawn into a world he never thought he could belong to. A world where trust matters. Where gentleness matters. Where familyโฆ matters. But Aulora has been hurt before. And Kai has never cared for anything enough to fight for itโuntil now. Can two people with completely different lives learn to meet in the middle? Or will the obstacles between a single mother and a guarded boy prove too heavy to carry? A tender, slow-burn college romance about healing, unexpected love, and the baby steps that lead two hearts exactly where theyโre meant to be.
