Chapter with * Contains SMUT. Draco Malfoy is a free man-at least, that's what the Ministry claims. In truth, he's a walking prisoner: monitored, watched, paraded in front of wealthy families desperate to claim the last Malfoy heir. Beautiful, soft-spoken, and dangerous without meaning to be, she sees through him in a way no one else does. She comforts him, challenges him, infuriates him-and hides something he can't quite touch. She was never meant to fall for him. He was never meant to need her. When her connection to a rising rebellion is exposed, Draco must decide whether to let her go... or burn the world that already blames him. A slow-burn, sharp-edged romance about healing, guilt, and the one person who was never supposed to matter.

After the war, Draco Malfoy disappears into the Muggle world, away from the weight of his past and the whispers that follow his name. He wants peace, anonymity-something he never truly had. Hermione Granger, now the owner of a cozy library and flower shop in Muggle London, has built a life far from the chaos of her past. Books and blooms are easier to understand than love, loss, and the ghosts of war. Their paths weren't meant to cross again. But fate has a way of bringing together the most unexpected souls. Between dusty bookshelves and freshly cut roses, between old regrets and new beginnings, can two former enemies find something neither of them ever expected? A story of healing, second chances, and love that blooms in the most unlikely places.