Built to Last

You come home after two years overseas expecting your fiancé to meet you at the airport.

He doesn't. By the end of the night, you've discovered that Yosetsu Awase is gone. So is your apartment, your car, everything you left behind, and the money you spent two years saving to open your own restaurant.

You have one suitcase, an increasingly complicated legal problem, and absolutely no intention of letting any of it destroy the future you worked for.

Moving into your cousin Eijiro's Philadelphia rowhouse is supposed to be temporary. His roommate complicates things.

Katsuki Bakugo was once one of the most famous fighters in the country, until addiction and an explosive temper ended his career. Now he's sober, retired from the cage, and running a successful custom auto shop. He's also the man you had a humiliating crush on in culinary school, the man who kissed you once and didn't even remember doing it.

You definitely remember.

The last thing you need is another man rearranging your life. Unfortunately, Katsuki keeps making himself difficult to ignore.

He cooks you breakfast. He loans you a vintage Mustang. He looks at the wreckage your ex left behind and never once mistakes you for someone who needs saving.

Katsuki doesn't want to take control away from you. He just might be the first man you trust enough to give some of it to.

Built to Last is a Katsuki Bakugo x Reader romance about starting over, rebuilding after everything falls apart, and discovering that sometimes second chances can become your first choice.

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