Falling for my Ex Husband Again: A Second Chance High School Sweethearts Romance

"What does that cost me?" "Nothing," my ex-husband says. "I'll look at it as a neighbor." I should have known neighbor was the most dangerous word in Oakwood Falls.Marcus Reid ends marriages for a living. I built a career photographing departures. Ours should have been the one ending we both understood.Six years after I left him, I return with two camera bags, a one-year lease, and a promise that this time I'll stay.Then I discover my new photography studio shares a wall with Reid Family Law. My ex-husband's office.Marcus is still calm, careful, and impossible to read. The man who once planned our future so tightly I could barely breathe now spends his days saving everyone else from their worst endings.I need him to fix one predatory lease before my landlord owns the darkroom I haven't built yet.He does. For free. As a neighbor.Then a flood traps us together. One kiss becomes a no-promises arrangement. One shared wall becomes the thinnest lie in town. And every night his office light burns beside mine, it gets harder to remember why leaving once felt like freedom.BUT WAIT.The assignment that could restore my career finally arrives: eighteen months in Svalbard, chasing the light I used to cross oceans for.Marcus won't ask me to stay. I won't ask him to fight. And silence starts ending us exactly the way it did before.Then fire tears through Main Street, my studio, and every excuse I've used to keep one foot out the door.Our divorce is final. The paperwork is airtight. But the man who helps everyone else survive their endings is about to build me one impossible reason to come home.A steamy, emotional second-chance romance with ex-spouses, next-door forced proximity, small-town meddling, he-never-stopped-loving-her devotion, career-versus-love conflict, and remarriage. Standalone HEA. No cheating, no cliffhangers.