A Secret Son for the Firefighter

I come back to my hometown as a nurse practitioner at the town clinic… and unknowingly enroll my child in his father’s flag football team.

Brennan Kallas, a volunteer firefighter who looks like Adonis with mesmerizing green eyes. The man every woman in town watches when the sirens go off.

He’s the man who broke my heart eight years ago.

The night he told me I was asking for too much, I left town pregnant and never looked back.

Now we sit on the same clinic board, sharing hallways, coffee runs, and loaded silences.

Then he carries two smoke-covered kids into my clinic after a house fire, ash streaked across his skin, looking like every bad decision I’ve ever made.

My son worships him by the second football practice.

One touch in a supply closet changes everything. And I start remembering why I loved him.

Then Brennan learns my son with green eyes is his. And now, the man I never recovered from might destroy me all over again.