Love at First Novel by Gu Lingfei

Duncan held Liberty's hand. "Don't worry about her. Mr. Fraser is secretly protecting her he won't let anything happen to her. You must be exhausted after a long day." He gently patted her shoulder. "Lean on me."

Liberty smiled and rested her head on his shoulder.

Immediately, his strong arm wrapped around her.

"Duncan."

"Yeah?"

"I'm so lucky to have you. I finally have someone to rely on."

For so long, Liberty had been the pillar of strength for her sister and son. But now, she had someone to lean on, too.

Duncan's voice was filled with warmth. "It's even better to have you. You're my rock-my strength. Love, I thank God every day for bringing us together."

They had met, gotten to know each other, fallen in love, and now they were building a life together. Liberty looked up at him. "Do you still remember the first time we met?"

accidentally bumped into my car. My brand-new car-damaged on the first day! Then Zachary called to tell me that the person who hit my car was his wife's sister. For his

his interest was Sonny-though the

looked so flustered and apologetic that he hadn't had

straight and studied him. "So it was Zachary who called

he did a lot for Serenity behind the scenes. He knew she cared about you and your son more than anything, so he treated you like family. To be honest, when we

last. We never imagined Serenity would be the one to break through

you live a life that makes people envy and

"I

she leaned against

the day

she hadn't even been divorced yet. She had still been trapped in her miserable marriage to Hank, who had just proposed that they split

had known she was out of touch with the workforce, that she hadn't worked in years, that all the money she had ever made had gone into decorating their wedding home. Yet, he had still expected her to pay her own

her $5,000 a month, but Liberty had told Hank it was only $2,000, afraid he'd

excuse to cut

an argument, claiming Serenity