keminx
𝑺𝑯𝑬'𝑺 - A walking paradox in a pleated skirt. Noa Elowen Warren is a storm contained by sheer force of will. At 19, she's a brilliant, volatile artist who paints her nightmares onto canvas and uses sex like a weapon-or a sedative. A former cult kid who survived electroshock "treatments" for the sin of grieving her parents, she's all sharp edges and defensive fury. She fucks to forget, fights to feel, and trusts no one. Her mind is a haunted house, and she's the only ghost allowed inside.
𝑯𝑬'𝑺 - A fortress built on a fault line. Pierce Grant Mercer became an adult at the ripe age of three. At 20, he's the sole guardian of his three younger sisters, a mathematical genius, and a "ghost analyst" for hire-a hacker who solves impossible problems for dangerous clients to keep his makeshift family safe and hidden from their own brutal past. He trades in secrets, operates on cold logic, and maintains absolute control. Emotions are variables to be managed; love is a vulnerability he can't afford.
𝑻𝑶𝑮𝑬𝑻𝑯𝑬𝑹 - They're catastrophes on intersecting paths. He's the calm, impenetrable system. She's the chaotic, irresistible virus. He needs her vibrant, messy chaos to remind him he's human. She needs his unshakable, quiet strength to feel safe for the first time in her life. It's a transaction that becomes an addiction. A rescue mission that turns into a mutual surrender. They're two broken algorithms trying to debug each other, and the solution might just destroy them both.