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- Parts 19
Maya has spent the last years studying and working herself to the bone just to keep everything from falling apart.
Her life has always been built on structure. Strict schedules, long nights at university, double shifts after class, and the constant weight of a financial situation at home she never talks about. She doesn't have the luxury of falling apart, so she simply doesn't.
She survives by controlling everything she can.
Until one opportunity changes everything.
When she is offered a position on a world tour working behind the scenes for one of the most famous boybands on the planet, it feels like everything she has worked for might finally mean something. Like maybe, just maybe, she can breathe again.
But dreams on paper don't always survive reality. Because the moment Maya meets Conor Smith, she realises nothing about this job is going to be simple.
He's rude. Cold. Unpredictable. The kind of famous she didn't realise actually existed up close. And from day one, he makes it very clear that she doesn't belong in his world.
Working on tour quickly turns into something else entirely. A constant push and pull. Power struggles disguised as conversations. Tension that builds in places it shouldn't. And a man who seems determined to get under her skin every chance he gets.
But Conor isn't just difficult.
And Maya isn't just unlucky enough to be stuck with him.
Because behind the lights, the music, and the carefully controlled image of fame, there are things neither of them are supposed to see. Secrets that don't stay buried for long. Lies that start to unravel in places no one can control anymore.
And when those secrets begin to surface, everything between them starts to shift.
Trust turns dangerous. Attraction becomes impossible to ignore. And suddenly, surviving the tour is no longer just about work.
It's about what happens when two people who were never supposed to collide start seeing the parts of each other that were never meant to be exposed.