The last thing you expect four weeks after giving birth is to be cheated on but when your friend group come together to help out, things start to take shape again. 3am wake up calls, bedtime routines and milestones are no longer something you have to do alone.

She grew up across the street from him. Joe was first crushes, porch lights, family parties, and everything Victoria never quite got over. Even when he left for college. Even when New York claimed him. Even when the world did too. Years later, Victoria is building a life through photography, art, and carefully controlled distance when she's invited on tour with Joe and his friends, but proximity has a way of exposing what time never erased. As old feelings collide with new realities, Victoria is forced to confront the hardest truth of all: loving someone for years doesn't mean they were ever yours.

It was just a contract. A fix for bad press. A perfectly staged relationship for the public eye. But somewhere between fake smiles and real conversations, the line blurred and feelings got involved. Now, with the world watching your every move, you're left wondering what happens when something that started as a lie becomes the most real thing you've ever had?

━━━━━━ ❝ 𝐖𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐊𝐈𝐃𝐒. ❞ ❝ 𝐖𝐄'𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝑱𝑼𝑺𝑻 𝑲𝑰𝑫𝑺. ❞ 𝑺𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑬𝑳 𝑻𝑶 "𝑾𝑶𝑽𝑬𝑵" come closer, come closer i want you to unravel me 𝗌𝗍𝖾𝗏𝖾 𝗁𝖺𝗋𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗍𝗈𝗇 𝗑 𝖿𝖾𝗆 𝖮𝖢 ( 𝖲𝖤𝖠𝖲𝖮𝖭 4! )

━━━━━━ ❝ 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐁𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆. ❞ i think i hate you, you know that? 𝗌𝗍𝖾𝗏𝖾 𝗁𝖺𝗋𝗋𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗍𝗈𝗇 𝗑 𝖿𝖾𝗆 𝖮𝖢 ( 𝗌𝖾𝖺𝗌𝗈𝗇 2 )