The Landlady Who Raised A Genius

At seven, Noah is left behind by his mother, and landlord Mara takes him in under one hard rule: he must work off the rent she never paid. What starts as a debt slowly turns into a bond neither of them can break. A decade later, Noah is a gifted MIT-bound prodigy, but when his wealthy birth mother comes back with a million-dollar check, he refuses to be bought back—and chooses the mother who truly raised him.