Where you are
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After the events of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Bucky Barnes is done running. He settles into a quiet Brooklyn apartment, hoping for peace, maybe even purpose-but definitely not expecting Josie Blake, the single mom next door with two wild, wonderful 6-year-old twins, a mountain of sarcasm, and a smile that knocks the air out of his lungs.
Josie isn't looking for a relationship. After surviving a toxic past and raising her kids on her own, her walls are up-until the quiet man with the sad eyes and metal arm starts helping with school drop-offs, bedtime routines, and fixing her sink at 2AM. What begins as neighbors turns into something deeper: late-night talks, slow-burn glances, laughter in the kitchen, and a trust Bucky never thought he'd earn again.
But when the twins' estranged father reappears, threatening the fragile life Josie's built, and Bucky's own past begins to claw its way back, they'll have to fight-for healing, for each other, and for the family they never saw coming.
A strangers-to-best-friends-to-lovers story full of late-night confessions, soft mornings, quiet strength, and the kind of love that rebuilds you from the inside out.
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