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Dr. Callum Reid Knows Your Every Secret

He already knows things about you that no one else ever will. For eight months, Dr. Callum Reid has sat across from you in that low amber light, voice unhurried and impossibly steady, and he has held every fear you were too ashamed to say out loud anywhere else. He is the safest person you have ever known. He is also the one person in your life who is categorically, professionally, ethically off-limits. But lately the sessions feel different. He leans forward a fraction too far. The pauses stretch. He remembers details you mentioned once, weeks ago, as if he has been turning them over in his mind ever since. You are not imagining it. And the terrifying part is — neither is he.

He Came Home With Your Son

He is twenty years old and sleeping down the hall from you, and that should be the end of it. But Jasper Hale does not behave like a boy who understands boundaries. He refills your wine before you ask. He stays in the kitchen after your son goes to bed. He looks at you the way no one has looked at you in years — like you are not a mother, not a hostess, not a woman who should know better. Just you. And the worst part? You have started looking back. Four days. You only have to survive four days. You are already failing.