Given to the Prez

Maeve Summers has the corner office, the prestige, the polished smile on command. What she doesn’t have is the sound of little feet in the hallway, or anyone waiting for her when the meetings end and the lights go off.

Doc swears he’s done with falling for the wrong woman. His life is already split down the middle—part gentle father to a little girl who still sleeps with the door cracked open, part steady presence for an ex‑wife who knows exactly how much he’s already given. The last thing he expects is for that same ex‑wife to slide Maeve’s name across the table like a challenge.

One introduction becomes late‑night texts, shared takeout in cluttered kitchens, and a quiet understanding that slips under both their defenses. Maeve finds herself tucking an extra toothbrush beside his daughter’s, learning the weight of a small hand in hers. Doc discovers he’s thinking about futures instead of exits.

Then the threats start.

At first it’s easy to brush off—a strange message, a shadow that might be nothing. But the danger tightens, circling not just Maeve, but the two people Doc has already promised the world to: his daughter and his ex‑wife. The family he has, and the family Maeve aches to claim, stand in the same line of fire.

To keep them safe, someone will have to give up more than they ever planned—privacy, dreams, maybe even the very idea of what a family is allowed to look like. In the end, love won’t be a feeling they fall into, but the choice they keep making while everything around them trembles.