TadhgLynchsWife
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Some heartbreaks don't happen all at once. They build slowly, piece by piece, until one day you wake up and realize you've been carrying the weight of it for far too long.
Maeve Quinn has always been the girl with the brightest smile, the one who makes jokes at midnight and defends cupcakes like they're her entire personality. She's the friend who shows up for everyone else. But no one sees the way she breaks in private-how she still aches for her sister Bree, who took her own life and left Maeve lost in the wreckage of a family that doesn't know how to heal.
Her parents are around but never really there. Her brothers are living their own lives. And Maeve is left drifting-stuck between who she was before and the weight of what she's lost.
Except for Kian Maguire.
Kian doesn't talk much. He doesn't have to. He's the quiet one, always in Maeve's shadow, watching, noticing, waiting. Kian has been looking after Maeve for as long as he can remember-stepping in when she's about to fall, holding her steady without ever letting her see how much he cares.
But Kian has his own grief too. His parents died in a car crash, leaving him, his older brother Caleb, and his younger sister Seiena to pick up the pieces. Kian tries to keep it all together, for his family, for Maeve-pretending it's all fine when it's really not.
Losing 5 is a story about the heartbreaks that don't shout, the love that grows in the quiet, and the way two broken people can find each other in the mess. It's about family, loss, and learning how to hold on-when it feels like everything is slipping away.