Cheating And Betrayal Second Chance Romance And Pregnant - His to Forgive #984785

Six years ago she betrayed him to save her dying father. He threw her out into the October cold and stopped the lobby clock with his own two hands. He never started it again.

Theo Larkmoor rebuilds ruins for a living. Buildings everyone else has written off, brought back from the dead and made worth keeping. He is very good at it, and he has not once in six years let a single person close enough to take a survey of him. Not since the night Mara Reyes walked out of his father's last dream and left the silence behind her like a verdict.

Now the only clockmaker in the country who can restore the one timepiece that broke him has arrived to begin the work. Her hands are steady. Her tools are already unrolled. And she is carrying a secret that is going to rearrange everything Theo spent six frozen years pretending he no longer wanted.

She did not come back to be forgiven. She came back to fix a clock and vanish into the desert before he ever found out the truth. But some things refuse to stay buried, and some debts cannot be paid alone, and the future taking shape between them is not just old wounds and unfinished apologies. It is a child who is going to learn how to be loved by watching whether two ruined people can finally let themselves be saved.

He believes the forgiveness in this story is his to give. The wronged man, deciding whether to pardon the woman who shattered him. He is wrong about that, the way he has been wrong about almost everything since the night the clock went still. Because the deepest forgiveness was never his to grant. It was hers to accept, and she is far better at forgiving than at being forgiven.

The night the clock starts ticking again is the night they both discover what it truly costs to come back from the cold.