Chapter Text
North was born a secret, raised in silence, and left to disappear.
Then a mysterious man arrived with a revelation uttering an unfamiliar name—Bas. A twin brother North never knew he had.
A mother now dead.
A fiancé left grieving.
And a lie too heavy to refuse.
In exchange for money to save the orphanage that raised him, North agrees to take his brother’s place in the life Bas left behind. He learns how to speak like him. Walk like him. Love like him.
But pretending becomes dangerous when the lie feels warmer than the truth—and the man he’s supposed to deceive starts healing in North’s arms.
What Johan doesn’t remember could shatter them both.
And when the truth is exposed, North runs…
Carrying with him the one part of Johan that’s real—a child neither of them expected.