(GETTING EDITED) 🇸🇹🇷🇮🇵🇵🇪🇩.✧
✦ 𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑰𝑷𝑷𝑬𝑫. ❤️🩹 ✦
REAL.
Realize Everyone Ain't Loyal.
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Every woman has a version of herself the world gets to see...
And a version she keeps hidden.
For Issa, that hidden girl carries years of anger, abandonment, betrayal, and pain she never learned how to put down.
Growing up taught her that love could hurt, family could fail you, and loyalty wasn't something you could always count on. So she learned to survive before she ever learned how to heal.
Now, at twenty-two, Issa spends her nights as Illusion-a beautiful dancer at Atlanta's infamous Inferno, where money flows, secrets hide behind velvet curtains, and everybody has something to lose.
Onstage, she's confident.
Untouchable.
Desired.
But when the lights go out, she's just Issa...
A woman trying to figure out who she is beneath everything she's been through.
Caught between a relationship that's slowly breaking her, a best friend fighting demons of her own, and dangerous secrets hiding inside the walls of Inferno, Issa's carefully controlled life begins to unravel.
Then one mysterious woman from Nirvana walks into her world-and suddenly, the lines between survival, desire, loyalty, and danger begin to blur.
Issa has spent her whole life preparing for war.
But maybe what she really needs...
Is permission to finally choose peace.
Because healing means grieving the things you deserved but never received.
And sometimes, before you can become who you're meant to be-
You have to let go of everyone who only loved the version of you they could control.
𓆩♡𓆪
Everybody knows Illusion.
But nobody knows Issa.
Welcome to Atlanta.
Welcome to Inferno.
Welcome to STRIPPED. 🥀❤️🩹
Everybody ain't loyal.