Five Years of Running One Boy Who Made Him Stay
Book Description
She found the little boy crying in a parking lot at midnight—no shoes, a bruised cheek, and his father's name written on a crumpled napkin tucked in his pocket.
Mara Quinn has three rules: never get attached, never ask questions, never stay. As a trauma nurse who has spent five years moving from city to city, she knows better than to get involved. But five-year-old Owen with his gap-toothed smile breaks rule one before she can stop herself.
His father, Callum Voss, isn't what she expected. Not a monster—a man trying to disappear. Former enforcer for the Voss syndicate, he took his son and ran the night his brother ordered Owen silenced as leverage. Now they're hiding in plain sight, and the last thing Callum needs is a sharp-eyed nurse who notices everything.
But Mara notices the deadbolt. The go-bag. The way he reads Owen a bedtime story with his hand unconsciously reaching for a holster that isn't there.
When the people Callum fled from finally find them, Mara learns that safe was never something she was going to get. Only something worth fighting for.
Table of Contents
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- Chapter 1: Midnight Lot
- Chapter 2: The Rules He Keeps
- Chapter 3: The Flower Protocol
- Chapter 4: What He Flinches From
- Chapter 5: The Go-Bag
- Chapter 6: Half-Truths
- Chapter 7: Owen's Question
- Chapter 8: The First Night
- Chapter 9: Evacuation Protocol
- Chapter 10: What He Did
- Chapter 11: Harlan
- Chapter 12: The Meeting
- Chapter 13: The Longest Night
- Chapter 14: The Evidence
- Chapter 15: What Staying Costs
- Chapter 16: Five Years Later