Second Chance Score

One minute I’m avoiding my pucking ex in a hospital hallway…the next I’m fake-engaged to him and pregnant with his baby. Life doesn’t ease you into chaos like this. One day I’m juggling cupcake orders and my daughter’s hospital bills… The next I’m front-page news with a ring on my finger I never asked for. Jaxon Hill is an NHL badboy who needs a redemption story. I need help I can’t afford to turn down. So I move in. Play the part. Smile for the cameras. He fixes what’s breaking around me without a word. Stays up reading to my daughter until she falls asleep against him. And somewhere between pretending and surviving, I stop bracing for him to leave. The attention grows. The whispers get louder. Then two pink lines change everything. Because this was never supposed to be real. And if the truth comes out, I don’t just lose my bakery or my reputation… I lose everything. And the one man I swore I’d never need again becomes the only one I can’t survive without.