┏━━━━━༻❁༺━━━━━┓ For Edward, he had waited lifetimes for this face, this soul, this impossible pull. And whether it destroyed him or saved him, he would not let her slip away again. ┗━━━━━༻❁༺━━━━━┛

Mara June Ashby didn't expect Forks to change anything. She's sixteen, deaf, and exhausted by the way people look at her like she's a puzzle missing half its pieces. Her service dog, Maple, is the only one who makes her feel whole these days. Moving across the country with her family was supposed to be temporary. A quiet year. A forgettable one. Until Jasper Hale. He's strange. Distant. Too still for someone so alive. But when he looks at her, it's not with pity-it's like he hears something in the silence that no one else does. And when he signs a clumsy hello in ASL on her first day of school, Mara's world tilts. There's something different about him. Something dangerous. Something... ancient. And maybe she should be afraid. But thunder doesn't run from the storm. It becomes it. Jasper Hale X OC Twilight-Breaking Dawn #1 Jasper Hale 07/08/25 #1 twilight 07/13/25 #1 bellabashing 7/28/25 #1 Edward Cullen 10/22/25 #1 VampireRomance 10/27/25