AltheaGrant8
Emmaline Hart never imagined her life would twist into something straight out of a forbidden love story. A brilliant medical student with dreams of becoming a heart surgeon, she spends her days buried in textbooks and her nights juggling two jobs just to pay the bills. With a sick mother to care for, three younger siblings depending on her, and a mountain of debt rising faster than she can breathe.
She loves children, one day she wants a family of her own but not now...not in the middle of exams, chaos, and exhaustion.
Emma makes the most difficult, unthinkable choice-she becomes a surrogate.
It was supposed to be simple- carry a child for a man who desperately needed one.
No attachments. No complications. No emotions. No romance
Except nothing about Nicholas Marin is simple. No falling in
A retired Navy SEAL wirh a body sculptedby war and discipline. A CEO of a global 500 security-tech empire, powerful-yet deeply lonely. With a sprawling, chaotic family of loud siblings, meddling aunts, and cousins that multiply like confetti, he's the only one not married, not settled, and not looking for love. Not after everything he's survived.
But when Emma walks into his life-with her waist-length chestnut hair, blue-green eyes that shift like ocean sunrise, and laught that sounds like pure sunlight.
A voice so soft, so melodic, it becomes his favorite sound on earth, and a smile that steals the air straight from his lungs-Nicholas realizes something terrifying,
He hired the one woman who could completely undo him.
Their connection is accidental
Instant
Undeniable
Forbidden
She was only supposed to carry his baby,
but Emma ended up carrying his heart and heal the scars he's hidden from everyone.