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

by the Johnston family, where the Johnston couple cared for her, and Jace and Wayne always looked out

fact, they'd spoiled her like a

was caused by their actions, they had

of why you resent the Harts," Keira said

come back or even called.

was still a member of the Hart family. Sooner or later, he'd have to for himself, and for the sake of

go

back-

as long as they don't force you to marry someone else," Keira said,

curling into a smirk. He

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doesn't threaten your interests, you're willing to give the green

hard for you. Don't be ungrateful, Mr. Hart," Keira

hers. "Focus your energy on fixing up this courtyard and making the tea drinks you love. Leave the rest to

said, gazing at the now-cleared

tone soft but curious, "why did you