Returning Home

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I swore I'd never move back to Alder Creek. Not after losing Dad at sixteen, when grief turned every familiar corner of this town into a reminder of what I'd lost. Not after working my way up through Chicago's most competitive architecture firms, building a life where success leaves no room for looking back. But when Mom finally decided to trade her Colorado winters for Florida beaches, someone had to deal with our old family home. I thought three weeks would be plenty—just enough time to renovate, sell, and move on. I definitely didn't plan on running into Evan Spencer—my best friend's handsome older brother... and my secret high school crush. Back then, he was the star football player with a future as bright as his smile. And me? I was just his little sister's best friend, spending countless afternoons in their kitchen doing homework while he breezed past, always so close but somehow a million miles away. Now he's