ZDevineNoir19
Damián Navarro does not rescue people. Piper Sinclair keeps making him.
Behind the speed, sponsorships, and screaming engines of Navarro Performance is a business no camera ever sees. Damián built it to run on loyalty, discipline, and fear, and he has spent years making certain nothing gets close enough to threaten what belongs to him.
Then Piper Rose Sinclair ends up somewhere she was never supposed to be.
She's a nursing student with too many bills, too much faith in people, and a talent for wandering headfirst into situations she doesn't understand. She should be terrified of Damián.
Sometimes, she is.
It just never seems to stop her mouth.
He tells her to stay put. She doesn't.
He tells her to stop asking questions. She asks better ones.
He makes her cry, turns his back, and learns the hard way that tears don't mean Piper Sinclair is finished talking.
She is bright where he is brutal. Soft where he has spent years becoming hard.
And somewhere between arguments, threats, unwanted protection, and the kind of tension neither of them is willing to name, something starts shifting.
Piper begins to see past the man everyone else fears.
Damián begins to notice the woman everyone else underestimates.
Neither of them means to get closer.
Neither of them understands why walking away keeps getting harder.
And neither of them knows that the danger pulling them together started long before they ever met.
Piper thinks she stumbled into the wrong world.
Damián thinks he can control what happens next.
They are both wrong.
Because some things don't bleed when they break.
They bleed when you try to hold on to them.
Soft Things Bleed is a dark grumpy x sunshine romance about trust, survival, and two wounded people who refuse to become what hurt them, even as desire pulls them deeper into a world where caring for someone can become the most dangerous weakness of all. 🥀