writtenbykaya
What happens when you meet someone on the worst night of their life?
When they're standing on the edge of a bridge-and you're the only one who sees?
How does a story like that begin?
The story of two people who meet when everything's already falling apart.
After her twin sister's death, Norah Bishop learns how to look whole - polished, composed, untouchable. She carries a secret that feels heavier than grief and a guilt she mistakes for balance. If something was taken, something must be paid.
Daniel Cohen has been quiet his whole life. Not because he has nothing to say, but because no one ever listened. Not when it mattered. He doesn't believe in fate. He believes in control. In endurance. In loving one person so steadily it becomes instinct.
They aren't supposed to collide.
But from the moment they do, something ancient and unspoken refuses to let go - in glances across classrooms, in banters, in conversations that stretch past midnight, in touches that feel like recognition rather than discovery.
As old wounds surface and truths threaten to unravel everything, Norah must decide whether she will keep living like punishment - or choose a love that feels terrifyingly alive.
This is a story about grief that lingers.
About desire that burns through fear.
About two people who don't promise to save each other -only to stay.