Twix3780
Tauriel Montgomery has spent years surviving other people's feelings-reading what they hide, carrying what they never meant to share. Marcus Flint is the worst of it: a storm of fury, insecurity, and pain he buries under cruelty and pride.
They start as enemies, trading barbs in class and pretending they don't notice how the other lingers.
But when Tauriel catches something unexpected-guilt, softness, hope-the line between rivalry and refuge begins to blur.
In a world on the edge of war, love isn't gentle.
It's messy. It's terrifying. It's a choice made in fire... and kept in the quiet that follows.