CHARACTERS
Audrey- Naturally mid length red hair with blonde highlights, 30, one kid, social worker, too kind for her ow n good, hopeless romantic, trust issues
Backstory:
her Dad walked out when she was 2 Mom started doing drugs because dad left and eventually got arrested and Audrey became a foster kid until she aged out and she lived in a apartment given to her by the foster system and she ended up falling in love with one of her neighbors (now husband) and she believed it was fate because she is a hopeless romantic and believes everything happens for a reason and they got married at 22 ( married young) and had kid at 25 and eventually she got bored in her relationship and felt like she made a mistake but she is telling herself that her husband is her soulmate because he gave her love when she never had any and she believes he's here for a reason plus she loves her kid too much to see her kid without a father soon she enrolls in collage and that's when she meets Blake in her class and after they both graduate they keep in touch and then love story emerges
Alex Jones - average, he cares a lot for Audrey and he really loves her, 30, runs his own business selling furniture, family man, funny
Zoey Jones - her daughter 5 adores her mom and dad equally the sweetest thing ever vey social and bubbly
Blake Jonson - 30 - fine asf, Lawyer for child advicant, his wife is controlling but his family wants him to marry his fiance because they don't want him to end up with someone who will use him for his money so they set him up with a girl who was born rich. they have been engaged for 4 years and she begs him for a very expensive wedding and she controls how he spends there money and she spends all the time
Evelyn Jonson - 29 brat, very controlling, pretty and born rich, she doesn't care about Blake but she does want more money and she only wants the expansive wedding so so that she can brag to her friends
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
*****
Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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