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Home. Such a simple word for such a profound concept. Not just a place, but a feeling. The knowledge that you're exactly where you belong, with exactly the right people.

I turn Charlotte to face me, still marveling at how perfectly she fits.

"I love you," I tell her.

"I love you too," she replies, rising on tiptoe to kiss me. "Even if you did seduce the nanny."

I laugh against her lips. "Best decision I ever made."

Hiring Charlotte was supposed to simplify my life, to help me manage being a single father. Instead, it complicated everything in the most wonderful way possible.

And I wouldn't change a single moment of it.