You Are My First Light

For four years, he was my brother's best friend. My secret. My everything. Caleb Reid was the charming, older college guy who saved me when I was thirteen. He bought me hot chocolate, called me “Kiddo,” and treated me like a little sister he had to look out for. He saw a kid. I saw my entire future. I spent the next five years studying, fighting, and clawing my way into his world, earning a place at his university in New York City. But when I finally got there, I crashed into a devastating truth: I was just a girl, and he was a man with a life I could never be a part of. So I buried my secret. I tried to forget the boy who owned my heart. But when our paths crossed again, the perfect mask he always wore had cracked. Underneath the handsome smile and Wall Street success, I saw the man haunted by a tragic past, drowning in a debt he didn't owe. And in that moment, everything changed. I was no longer the little girl who needed his protection. I was the only one who could offer hi