Dr Alexandria Byrne had once believed that tenderness was a kind of safety. A shelter. A promise. Then someone she loved broke that promise, and the aftershocks hollowed her out in ways she still couldn't speak of. Now, years later, she carried herself with the calm precision of someone who could not afford softness again. Her voice clipped, her posture immaculate, her emotions tucked away as neatly as the papers on her desk. Her colleagues called her distant. Students called her cold. But she called it survival. She never imagined the girl who would unravel all of it had already stepped onto campus-heart bruised, hands trembling, carrying a grief heavier than her rucksack. They would meet in a storm, though neither knew it yet.

"I can't help but love you, Even though I try not to. I can't help but want you, I know that I'd die without you." ~Ruelle (Song: War of Hearts) Elizabeth never meant to break the rules. She only wanted to survive them. Born into power, bound by expectations, and haunted by a mother who sees vulnerability as weakness, Lizzy has spent her life building a mask sharp enough to protect her-and cold enough to keep anyone out. But everything shifts when she meets her new physics teacher, a woman carrying just as much pain as Lizzy does. As their connection deepens, the carefully built walls around Lizzy's heart begin to crack, and for the first time, she must confront what it means to build a future-with someone just as shattered as she is. 🥇#sapphicromance (04. Sep. 25.) 🥇#txs (16. Sep. 25.)

(19 year old) Claire Powers finds herself admitted to another Private Practice. Repression, sex and sarcasm- her ways through life. What happens when she has no choice but to face her trauma? Or when her therapist becomes more than just a safe person? Ember adores her work. She has no time for romantic connections. But when reality strikes and she's home alone with her feline friend and a book she's read one too many times, loneliness casts a shadow over her that she can't outrun. Boundaries blur. Safety strengthens. Ethics rot. Claire (19) Ember (40)

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