AmaryllisssS4
Volume: 1
The Dahlia. Beneath its perfectly symmetrical petals and vibrant, striking colors hides a cruel warning, according to the ancient language of flowers: betrayal. The kind that comes when the world suddenly flips upside down without warning. The kind when your own mind turns against you.
It is beneath the shadow of this deceptive flower that two seemingly opposite destinies will cross paths-secretly bound by the same silence.
Dahlia is eighteen. To her, depression is nothing more than a word on a diagnosis she refuses to accept. Armed with stubborn denial, she's convinced she can make it through her freshman year of college without a hitch, completely unaware that the ground is already giving way beneath her feet. She is that flower trying desperately to stay upright while a storm rages inside her.
Jules, twenty years old, appears to be her complete opposite. The cold, untouchable star of the university hockey team, he has built a fortress of ice around himself. Emotions are a luxury he doesn't allow. His invisible scars are buried deep behind an Olympian calm. Yet beneath that armor, pains no one has ever heard are screaming.
When they meet, it isn't love at first sight it's a head-on collision. Their first interaction is a spark in a barrel of gunpowder, instantly turning indifference into pure, visceral hatred. They despise each other.
But fate, that cruel player, sometimes forges the strongest bonds exactly where all you can see is destruction.