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𝑀𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓎 Lynch has spent her entire life being protected.
As the daughter of Joey Lynch and Aoife Molloy, everyone has an opinion about what she should be-and her parents are determined to keep her safe from anything that might hurt her. But Mallory doesn't want another warning, another curfew, or another person telling her what she can and can't do.
She wants to make mistakes. She wants to feel young. She wants to live.
Then there's Dillon Holland.
𝒟𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑜𝓃 grew up learning that home isn't necessarily somewhere you feel safe. With a father who can barely look at him unless he's lost in his own demons, Dillon has spent years learning how to disappear inside the same four walls. Somewhere along the way, escaping became easier than facing what waited for him when he was sober.
He knows he's becoming someone he doesn't recognize.
And then Mallory crashes into his life.
She is everything he shouldn't want-reckless where he's guarded, stubborn where he's withdrawn, and protected in ways he can't understand. She doesn't look at him like he's broken. She doesn't ask him to explain every scar in his life.
For the first time, Dillon feels seen.
For the first time, Mallory feels like someone isn't trying to control her.
What begins as a collision between two completely different worlds quickly becomes something neither of them knows how to walk away from. Mallory pulls Dillon toward a life he isn't sure he deserves, while Dillon shows Mallory that freedom doesn't always mean doing whatever you want.
But there are things Dillon hasn't told her.
Things Mallory's family would never forgive.
And the closer they become, the harder it becomes to separate what they want from what they need.
Mallory wanted to live her life.
Dillon wanted to survive his.
Neither of them expected the other to become the reason they started wanting more.
Lynch Fem Oc x Holland Male Oc
Start: 08/26/26
End: Tbd