Cared for Like a Wife (Wifely Hearts #3)

He spends his life saving everyone else. Then he collapses into the arms of the one man who refuses to let him keep pretending he’s fine.

Dr. Adrian Cole is brilliant, respected, and completely exhausted.

As a trauma surgeon, he’s built his entire identity around being the man everyone can depend on. He doesn’t need help. He doesn’t need rest. And he certainly doesn’t need anyone rearranging his carefully controlled life.

Then Riley Han walks into it.

Riley is warm, creative, stubbornly caring, and impossible to intimidate.

When Adrian’s exhaustion finally catches up with him, Riley refuses to let the stubborn surgeon dismiss it as ordinary fatigue.

What begins as temporary caretaking soon turns into shared meals, quiet evenings, hand-painted affirmation cards, and a home that feels nothing like Adrian’s sterile apartment ever did.

And then the teasing starts.

Everyone thinks Riley looks suspiciously like Adrian’s wife.

Neither man expects Adrian to admit that he doesn’t hate the idea.

As friendship becomes attraction and attraction becomes love, Adrian learns that Riley isn’t simply taking care of him. Riley is teaching him how to accept love without believing he has to earn it.

But building a life together means making difficult choices.

When Adrian is offered the career opportunity of a lifetime—one that would take him far away—he has to decide what success really means. Riley refuses to become the reason Adrian gives up his dreams, even while secretly fearing a future pregnancy spent without the man he loves.

Then their greatest dream becomes real.

Riley is pregnant.

Now Adrian has something more important than a prestigious position or another achievement waiting for him.

A family.

A home.

A future.

And this time, Adrian isn’t going to run from the life he wants.

He is going to choose it.

Cared for Like a Wife

is a heartwarming standalone MM mpreg romance featuring forced proximity, grumpy surgeon × gentle creative, caretaking, domestic romance, affirmation cards, pregnancy, found family, emotional healing, and a deeply satisfying HEA.

This is Book 3 in Wifely Hearts, but every book in the series can be read completely as a standalone.