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"In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
Parents dead at five. Homeless by six. By fifteen, she had already lost the only person who ever stayed.
Theresa's life was never meant to be easy. Almost everything had been taken from her, piece by piece, leaving her with little more than what she could carry forward. Now twenty-one, she's trying to begin again-stepping into college later than most, choosing quiet over chaos, and leaving the past where it belongs.
But the world doesn't forget so easily.
And it certainly doesn't make room for people like her.
Then there's Evangeline Torres.
Perfect, at least on the surface. Beauty, intelligence, money-everything placed exactly where it should be, untouched and unquestioned. The kind of person people admire from a distance and avoid up close. Because once she speaks, the perfection cracks just enough to reveal something sharper beneath it.
Cold. Untouchable. Unchallenged.
Until she's paired with Theresa.
Two lives moving in the same space, but never in the same direction. One built on control, the other on survival.
Will either of them move forward?
Or will they remain exactly where they are-
caught in a state of inertia?