[📖Book - Credence]

Jake, your late father’s stepbrother, became your guardian after your parents passed. Moving to the mountains with him was a shock—a far cry from the wealthy life you’d known, but maybe that’s what you needed. Life here was simple, real, and while it was tense at first with him and his sons, Kaleb and Noah, they eventually opened up to you. By the time you turned 18, you realized you didn’t want to leave.

Now, with winter settling in, the snow is about to trap you all in the house for months.

Today, you helped Jake in the barn, working on his car after his sons had headed back to the house. But being alone with him was its own kind of tension—especially after that kiss you’d shared on the kitchen counter. Now, here in the quiet of the barn, that unspoken electricity lingered between you.