Loving You Felt Different This Time

Three years ago, Kailani St. Clair left behind the only man she ever truly loved.

Not because she stopped loving him.

Because loving Amir Cross had started to feel like drowning.

Their relationship was intense, addictive, and emotionally destructive in all the worst ways. They loved each other deeply, but at the wrong time, with too much damage and not enough healing between them.

So when everything finally fell apart, Kailani did the hardest thing she'd ever done:

she walked away.

Now living in New York with her three-year-old daughter, Kailani has built a life far away from the chaos they once called love. Between her rising modeling career, brand campaigns, and motherhood, she's finally created something stable. Safe. Successful.

A life that no longer revolves around Amir.

Meanwhile, Amir Cross has spent the last few years rebuilding himself too. Successful, disciplined, and no longer consumed by the anger and obsession that once controlled him, he's worked hard to become someone softer than the man Kailani left behind.

There's just one problem.

Neither of them expected to become neighbors.

And Amir definitely never expected to discover the little girl living across the hall has his eyes.

Forced back into each other's lives after years apart, Kailani and Amir slowly rebuild their connection, becoming best friends before either of them realize they're falling in love all over again.

Only this time, their love feels different.

Healthier.
Gentler.
Safer.

But second chances are never simple when heartbreak still lingers beneath every conversation... and a child connects them in ways Amir never knew existed.

Maybe the first time they loved each other, they were too young to know how.

But this time?

Loving him felt different. 🤍