Not as great a reading for my sophomoric venture with this author, but some I feel can be forgiven because it's relatively short - so a lot was skipped forward, very fast paced near the middle to end - and it was probably one of Scott's first (all their works have been published only since 2017, basically, so a relatively new author) but with the first book of this author's I read, which I really liked, I think the author can only improve from here.
Also, this does have mpreg, so if you don't like that, skip this one.
So the reason I'm giving this 3 stars is because the book was both slow and fast at the same time. Slow in the beginning for me, slow to feel a connection between Owen and Crawford and slow to get interested in the story. But then once I was into these two together, it skipped a lot of things to get to where Owen is pregnant and they solidify their relationship. Weeks passed quickly, then months and then someone would happen, then a few weeks or a few months would go by again before someone happened again.
This book felt, to me, like it was just getting to building Owen and Crawford's relationship when it started skipping ahead weeks and months at a time, so seeing them become a more solid couple didn't happen, and I was left a little "meh" at the end when they were happy together. I didn't feel them get to that place.
That said, I was starting to like them toward the middle and they had some really hot sex scenes, and I was really starting to enjoy it. But then once they decided to date for real and exclusively, not much happened after that, it was just focused on the fact that Owen hadn't had a heat in almost a year and then them deciding to have kids before something happened that I won't go into because spoilers haha. But it was all about that near the end and that's why I felt it was skipping so much, to just focus on the pregnancy.
(And the first single dad support group kinda did that, but I felt that that book actually developed the main couple's relationship fully and it was less a "lets just get to the pregnant part" and more "lets get to the birth and having a family and happy ever after" part). It just made it feel different than this, which felt like it let go of the relationship for the most part in favor of the whole kid thing. I would have liked a lot more of their relationship at the end, because then the connection I felt with their characters and their relationship dropped off again for me.
So, 3 stars for an enjoyable middle and a slightly slow, but still enjoyable beginning, but a meandering and too fast paced an ending.
Still want to read this author again, but this second read just didn't work as well as my first read with this author.