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HEART IS TICKING !

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Thirty days. One assignment. He wasn't supposed to feel anything. Caden Ashvale doesn't do attachments. He does jobs — clean, precise, final. His last one should have been simple: protect a civilian woman for thirty days, then disappear permanently. He accepted that ending a long time ago. Sera Calloway didn't ask to be protected. She didn't ask for the quiet, unreadable man who inserted himself into her life, who listens like the world slows down when she speaks, who makes her laugh and then looks at her afterward like he's memorizing something. She's not wrong. He is. What begins as an assignment becomes something neither of them planned — and Caden knows, with the same precision he knows everything, exactly how it has to end. Not because he doesn't love her. Because he does. Heart is Ticking is a near-modern action romance about a man who dismantles his own happiness with careful hands so the woman he loves never has to grieve him properly. About a woman who would have fought for him if he'd let her. About thirty days that were supposed to mean nothing and ended up meaning everything. Some countdowns aren't about time running out. Some are about deciding what you're willing to lose.
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