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Early Bird Special: Just $0.99 for a limited time, save 66% off the regular price of $2.99! The email was two sentences. No pleasantries. Mr. Caine, your niece needs you to show up. In person. I run a billion-dollar defense company. I negotiate with governments. No one talks to me like that. Except Wren’s teacher, Yara Chambers. She’s... difficult. Sharp. Uncompromising. And far more perceptive than I’m comfortable with. When my seven-year-old niece came to live with me, I gave her everything I understood how to give. The best school. A perfect home. A flawless routine. I thought that was enough. Yara disagreed. She saw what I missed; the quiet ways Wren was slipping through the cracks. The ways I was already failing her. And then she stayed. She challenged me. Taught me. Forced me to become someone my niece could actually depend on. But somewhere between school meetings, late-night calls, and learning how to braid a seven-year-old’s hair... I stopped just trying to be a better guardian. I started becoming a better man. For Wren. For myself. And for the one woman who refuses to make anything easy... including falling for her.