The Decoy Father

Ellis Renwick and I are little more than acquaintances, linked by mutual friends and the endorsement deal I signed with her company.

Her baby is not mine, yet when the father walks away I step in anyway, unwilling to leave her with the load my single mother once carried alone.

Late-night cravings, quiet kisses, and a tiny heartbeat turn the woman behind that deal into the center of my life, and I fall for a future that was never supposed to be mine.

Her father learns I am not the biological dad and wants the absent ex exposed, even if it wrecks the peace Ellis and I have built.

He is chasing justice from a man who has already vanished.

They are mine to protect now, and unlike the man who left, I will not walk away.