They weren't looking for love - just another evening spent among friends.
But fate had other plans.
Lena Adams, a college professor from Phoenix, believes in structure, reason, and the quiet certainty of her world. Her best friend, defense attorney Alexander Cabot, is her constant voice of mischief - and the one responsible for introducing her to someone who will change everything.
Stef Adams, a firefighter from San Francisco, has built her life around control and courage. She runs into danger for a living, but when it comes to love, she's learned to keep her heart behind steel walls.
When Lena and Stef meet through their mutual friends, Alex and Olivia Cabot, what begins as polite conversation soon ignites into something undeniable - a spark neither of them expected.
Their connection is instant, but their lives are complicated. Between long shifts, quiet nights, laughter over coffee, and the walls they both swore to keep intact, Stef and Lena find themselves caught in a pull too strong to resist.
It's not about perfection - it's about possibility.
It's about two women learning that sometimes love doesn't ask for permission - it just shows up, burning bright.
5 years after adopting 5-year-old Kamaya, Stef and Lena remained together as a couple. Lena is now an important woman in society due to her job at the State Assembly in Sacramento, while Stef is a social worker, running and women and children shelter in San Diego.
However, 25 years of marriage doesn't mean no more problem in the women' couple. Living most of the time separate due to Lena's job, Stef doesn't know how to tell her that something is going terribly wrong in their marriage.
Will their love make it? Are they strong enough to survive the obstacles life will throw in their path?
*This book is the sequel to my other books "Before You" and "Love Languages". I suggest you read them before this one.
*Between "Love Languages" and this present book, everything happened exactly how it happened in the rest of the show The Fosters, and in Good Trouble until season 5 part A.
AUTOR NOTE: I'll be updating this story every day. Enjoy :)
TRIGGER WARNING: mention of sex, cheating, miscarriage
DISCLAIMER: I do not own "The Fosters" and "Good Trouble", Stef and Lena's characters or anything else mentioned in both shows.