"Everything will get better." "You're going to be fine." "Just pray to God; He's listening." Those were the cliché words Maeve Ellison Marquez Alvero had heard since she was young. And the saddest part was- she believed them She believed that one day she would finally be okay. That she could continue living without suffering. That time would heal everything. But as she grew older, she realized those words felt more like lies than comfort. For years, she carried them in her heart while a nightmare from her past continued to haunt her every single day. And instead of getting better, everything only became worse. Pain was the only thing she had grown familiar with. The shadows of her past kept swallowing her whole. The touch of those devilish hands still crawled across her skin every time she lay in bed, and the eyes filled with grief and anger were the last things she saw whenever she closed her own. Every day, the drowning felt deeper. Would someone finally pull her out of the depths she had been drowning in for years? Would someone hold the broken pieces of her without disgust, without pity? Would someone finally teach her that healing was possible after surviving so much pain? Or perhaps... Would Caelum Arden Reyes become The Beautiful Aftermath of everything that tried to destroy her?