Love's Redemption (Chris and Maddie)

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"Afraid I'll steal their jobs?" Hayden teased, a faint smile tugging at his lips.

"They're just curious," Keira replied, watching him deftly sand the wood. "How do you know how to do all this? Have you done it before?"

Hayden paused his work. "Yeah, I've done all this before."

Keira handed him a bottle of water, brushing the wood shavings off his face as she sat beside him. "Don't tell me you used to make a living doing this."

Hayden took a sip of water. "I did. I made money this way to pay for my tuition and cover Yuna's medical bills. Otherwise, my mom would've had too much to bear on her own."

Hearing him mention this, Keira couldn't help but think about the deaths of his father and my parents.

But those things were in the past. Instead, Keira focused on his age back then. "You couldn't have been very old at the time, right?"

"Eleven or twelve," Hayden said. "But I was already tall-just skinny. When I went to construction sites, people thought I was fifteen or sixteen and gave me work. But because I was young, they'd cut my pay. So my solution was to work smarter, to take on tasks others couldn't handle. That way, I had leverage."

into the distance, as if he could see

childhood. While Keira had lost her parents, she was taken in by the Johnston family, where the

hadn't suffered at all-in fact, they'd spoiled her like a

their actions, they had

you resent

he hadn't come back or even called. Maybe Hayden had warned him

later, he'd have to for himself, and for

go

back-

should return to the Harts, as long as they don't force

lips curling into

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you're pretty selfish. As long as it doesn't threaten your interests, you're

want to make things hard for you. Don't be ungrateful, Mr. Hart," Keira said, mimicking his gesture

your energy on fixing up this courtyard

This place will be my ultimate dream," Keira said, gazing at the now-cleared

soft but curious, "why did you suddenly want to fix up a

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