** Mia knows the taste of betrayal- it lingers sharper than blood, emptier than silence. She has lost everyone she ever dared to love, and in the ruins she carries only herself: haunted, restless, untrusting. But betrayal is not so easily buried. Shadows move where they shouldn't, and eyes she cannot name refuse to let her go. And in the stillness of her exile, a cruel ache follows her-because love, once given, never truly dies. It only waits, patient as a wound, aching to be remembered. ** 📚 - COMPLETED - 📚