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"If you ever find yourself alone... run to Est."
William was only five years old when a quiet ten-year-old boy entered his home.
He wasn't a brother.
He wasn't family by blood.
He was simply... P'Est.
For ten years, they laughed together, grew up together, and unknowingly became each other's safest place. Until one rainy night, Est disappeared without a goodbye, leaving behind a fifteen-year-old boy whose world lost all its colors.
Ten years later...
After losing the only family he had left, William finds himself standing in front of an unfamiliar door with nothing but his mother's last wish and a crumpled address in his hand.
Behind that door is the man he spent years hating.
The man he never truly forgot.
The man who has spent the last decade carrying a promise that broke him just as much as it broke William.
But some goodbyes were never a choice.
Some promises demand silence.
And some people continue loving each other long after they believe they've been left behind.
As buried truths begin to surface, William slowly realizes that the person he blamed for everything... may have been hurting just as much as he was.
Perhaps even more.
A story of grief, forgiveness, family, and a love that was never born in childhood-but quietly grew from the place they had always called home.
"Home wasn't the house we lived in."
"It was you."