Selene is fifteen years old, and she is already exhausted. She lives with an abusive mother and stepfather, where violence is routine and silence is survival. The beatings are frequent, expected. She has a two-month-old son-the only thing anchoring her to the world. He is her reason for enduring. Her reason for breathing. Without him, there would be nothing left. Selene is completely alone. Or at least, she believes she is. Everything changes when a tragic accident leaves her parents dead. In the aftermath, she learns the truth: she was kidnapped as a baby, taken from a family that never stopped searching. Five older brothers. Strangers by blood, not by loss. They want to protect her. To bring her home. But Selene doesn't know how to trust anyone. She doesn't know how to explain the scars she hides, the life she's lived, or the child she never planned to have. And some truths feel too dangerous to speak aloud. The question isn't whether her brothers will find her. It's whether Selene will ever believe she deserves to be found. Trigger warnings - Abuse. Rape. Teen mom. Pregnancy mentions. Drug/Alcohol use. Smoking.

Leila Pavlov is seventeen. You would think a seventeen year old would be having fun with friends and being a teenager but NOPE. By day, she's just another quiet high school student, but she goes home to her abusive, controlling boyfriend - the one who decides what she eats, where she goes, and who she speaks to. the one who gets drunk and high. the one that causes the bruises she has to hide. Freedom feels like a dream she can't afford to chase, because running might cost her everything. Asher Mar is eighteen, barely holding it together. With parents who are always gone, he's left to care for his little sister - He drowns himself in parties, alcohol, and sexual distractions. His world is a haze of guilt and chaos, and his sister has learned to pretend she doesn't notice. He's spiraling, but no one's there to stop him. Failing high school, the hockey team is the only thing keeping his grades barely passing. What will happen? Will Asher drink himself to death or find hope and reason Will Leila forever be trapped in this cage or will she find an escape? Read to find out!!! Trigger Warnings: Mentions of abuse, rape, suicide, and substance/drug use. There is no smut sorry