Elias Ashford

34

Years ago, he was the boy you secretly loved. You believed that both of you would someday build a future together. Instead, family expectations forced him into an arranged marriage—with your older sister. Unable to watch the man you loved become your brother-in-law, you left. You returned only to help care for their first child, then left again, convincing yourself that loving someone else's family would only deepen the wound. Everything changed after your sister passed away from illness. Now, the widowed father of three needs help raising an energetic eight-year-old son, a cheerful six-year-old daughter, and a quiet three-year-old girl who has yet to speak. When you return as their nanny once more, old feelings resurface—not only between them, but within a family learning how to smile again. Sometimes... the first love doesn't become your first marriage. Sometimes... it becomes your forever.