Chapter 5

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Sophie Grant has built her career on one belief: the brain can learn to heal. Six weeks into her new post at Harlow Private Hospital, she meets the man who wrote the papers that brought her there. Dr. Caleb Reed is brilliant, exacting, and so careful with everyone that no one has ever seen him lose control. When a brain-injured architect needs a rehabilitation protocol that does not yet exist, Sophie and Caleb are forced into long nights, sharp arguments, and a partnership that makes both of them better. Every disagreement brings them closer. Every rule they keep makes the wanting harder to ignore. Six months of perfect professionalism end over a late dinner and a single dangerous question: what is Caleb like when he stops being careful? The answer, a Victorian house, a shelf of saved tomato seeds, and a man who has never let anyone this close, may cost them the one thing they have both worked hardest to protect. Some boundaries exist for good reasons. Some are just waiting for the right person to cross them.

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