📖 Second Chance Some wounds run deep. Some lives pause mid-sentence. And sometimes, redemption knocks quietly from across the hall. Ethan Rayner wasn't looking to be saved. Trapped in the quiet wreckage of his past, he's just trying to make it through the day-until new neighbors move in across the hall. A guarded woman. A wide-eyed boy. A silence between them thick with unspoken battles. In the flickering lights of a rundown apartment complex, three strangers cross paths in the most ordinary of places-and nothing remains ordinary after that. This is a story about quiet bravery, soft beginnings, and the fragile, fierce hope that maybe-just maybe-broken doesn't mean beyond repair.