Still Got You in My Skin

Dani Chambers didn't plan to fall in love.
She damn sure didn't plan to disappear.
But five years ago, she made a choice-one that left her with a baby on her hip and a secret too heavy to carry out loud. Messiah "Sai" Carter was everything: heart, heat, safety. And she walked away like he was nothing. No warning. No goodbye. Just gone.
Now he's back in her life-in front of her lens-and she can't hide behind silence anymore.
Dani is a reporter now, clawing her way out of fluff pieces and gossip columns. So when her editor hands her the assignment of a lifetime-an exclusive on the league's most private player-she doesn't ask questions. She says yes.
Even before she sees the name.
Even before she remembers the weight of what she left behind. Messiah "Sai" Carter used to be the NBA's golden boy-fast, sharp, untouchable. Until an injury almost took him out for good.
Now he's back. Hungrier. Harder. Quiet.
The man doesn't talk about his personal life.
No scandals. No sightings. No women.
He answers questions about basketball and basketball only. Everything else? Locked down.
So when he sees Dani again-curves, camera, confidence and all-walking into his press conference like she wasn't the one who ghosted him without a word? Yeah. He's got a million questions.
And none of them are about the game. Why she left.
Why she never came back. Why she's pretending they're strangers when he still sees her in his goddamn dreams.
But Dani? She can't answer-not truthfully.
Because the only person who knows the real reason she walked... is her. And she's still not ready to say it out loud. Especially not with a four-year-old son at home. A boy Sai doesn't know exists.
A boy who looks just like him.
There's only so long a woman can fake it.
Only so far she can run from the truth.
And Dani?
She's running out of time.
Secrets always show up-
especially when the heart you broke...
is still beating for you.
And worse?
She has a man now.