FlourishingDisaster
Maddy Perez has one rule after Nate Jacobs: never again.
Never again will she let someone in close enough to do damage. Never again will she confuse intensity for love, or possession for passion. She rebuilt herself from the wreckage and she likes the person she is now sharp, untouchable, in control.
Then Bishop shows up and ruins everything.
He's not like the boys she knows. He doesn't try to soften her or fix her or put her in a box. He just sees her all of her, the ugly parts included and stays anyway.
Maddy doesn't know what to do with someone who stays.