Falling for His Stepmother's Trap

Serena has been with Mark for three years and living with him for one. When her family asks for eighty-eight thousand dollars toward a down payment, Mark complains bitterly, then apologizes and promises to marry her once his year-end bonus comes through. A month later, Serena learns she is pregnant, and Mark vows to take full responsibility. She quits her job and waits for a proposal that never comes.

Instead, Mark comes home late, smelling of another woman's perfume, and slaps her when she confronts him. Calmly, Serena decides the baby is all that matters now. Then Mark takes her to dinner at his parents' house, where a young woman greets him with far too much familiarity. She is Elena, his stepmother, and the tension between them is impossible to miss.

Serena steps into a household where boundaries have already been crossed, and the woman smiling at her may be the first love Mark never forgot.