I thought I was incapable of love until I met them. Discovering you have an eleven-year-old daughter you didn't know existed: devastating. Her aunt hating you for being an irresponsible playboy: entirely fair. Falling for both of them when you might not even be the biological father: self-destructive. JAMES There are three things I thought would never happen to me: settling down, becoming a father, and truly falling in love. All three just blew up in my face on a hungover Sunday morning. Alice shows up at my door claiming I'm her father. And her aunt Hannah looks at me like I'm the worst mistake her sister ever made in a life full of bad decisions. She's right. James Morgan isn't father material. Or relationship material. Or material for anything that involves commitment beyond a single night. But when Alice looks at me with those huge eyes and asks if she can stay, something in my chest breaks beyond repair. And suddenly these two women-a girl who might be mine and a woman who definitely shouldn't be-are filling a void I've spent years pretending doesn't exist. HANNAH I've been raising my niece for eleven years. Eleven years of working to make sure she has everything. Eleven years of hiding the fact that there's a man in Manhattan who might be her father, but who goes through women like he changes his shirts. Now Alice has found him. And James doesn't want to let her go. The problem is that the irresponsible playboy I know from the tabloids doesn't match the man who makes Alice breakfast every morning. The one who learns her teachers' names. The one who looks at her like she's the most important thing in the world. I'm starting to wish he were her father. And even worse: I'm starting to wish he were the father of my own children. When the paternity test comes back, what will hurt more: that he is her father, or that he isn't?
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