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"I don't need a savior. I just need someone to tell me the truth."
Hestia is the "perfect" oldest daughter. She has the degree, the long-term relationship, and the shimmering engagement ring to prove it. But behind the fair skin and the confident smile on the stairs, she's suffocating. Her fiancé's love feels more like a cage, and her family is too busy celebrating her "happily ever after" to notice the bruises on her spirit.
Then comes a job at a new firm and a man who speaks in shadows.
Dylan is everything Hestia shouldn't want. He's her boss. He's emotionally avoidant. He's a labyrinth of mixed signals and heavy eye contact. He's the silence to her chaos.
Hestia is a Virgo who craves clarity; Dylan is a mystery who thrives in ambiguity. She wants to be chosen; he's afraid to lead.
Between the clumsy spills in the office, the secret glances across blueprints, and the rising volatility of a home life she can no longer endure, Hestia finds herself pulled into Dylan's orbit. It's an "almost" situation that feels more real than her "forever."
They are two souls destined to collide, even as they both try to run in opposite directions. But in the vacuum of what they refuse to say to each other, silence has a gravity of its own. And eventually, everything falls.