BeautyTheBookLover
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Maeve Arden doesn't speak in group therapy.
She shows up, every week, dressed in black and draped in silence-haunted, sarcastic, and uninterested in healing. Her past isn't a wound-it's a crater. Family gone. Years in the system. A lifetime of pretending she's fine. But therapy is the last option left... and sitting in the same circle is a man who understands that better than anyone.
Bob Reynolds doesn't speak either.
He just listens. Watches. Flinches sometimes. He's quiet in a way that makes noise. And Maeve can't help but notice him-like a mirror cracked just like hers.
When the therapist pairs them for a simple assignment-a walk and talk, an hour and a half-everything starts to shift. What begins in silence unravels into slow confessions, tentative trust, and the kind of desire that shouldn't exist between two people trying so hard not to fall apart.
But pain recognizes pain. And sometimes healing doesn't come in the form of words... it comes in the form of fire.
This is a story about trauma, survival, and finding the broken pieces that fit.
Even if they burn.
TRIGGER WARNING!!
This book is about Trauma, there are talk of Self Harm, Alcohol and Drug abuse, and Abuse from family members, and also death of family members.
I will include the trigger warning at the start of the chapter so you know.
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