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She fell for him at the lake — then discovered he was her best friend's dad.
Before he discovered my age, he uncovered my heart.Bruised and abused, and victim to a loveless household, I shimmered with new life the moment he found me drowning my sorrows in a lake beneath the stars.A chance encounter. An unspoken connection.I was smitten; he was curious.But, as everyone knew, fate could be decidedly cruel.He called me Halley, like the comet.I called him Reed.And my best friend?Well...she called him Dad.Older is a forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance standalone, ending in an HEA.

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