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Last published Sun, May 3, 2026
Aria Castelli, a 19 - year old freshman in college, is still trying to escape the man that's been haunting her dreams for the past year. Matteo Mariano, a 21 - year old juinor in college who has been her best friend since childhood, has been in love with her since elementary school, but she has no idea. He's not the only one with a secret, though. There's one thing that from her past that not even her best friend knows about. Matteo goes on an unexpected trip and leaves her with his twin brother. There's seems to be some weird tension between Aria and his twin brother that Matteo notices. He brushes it off as nothing, which he comes to find that it's one of the biggest mistakes of his life that will cost him his best friend and the love of his life. What happens when he sees her again at one of his biggest games,five years later and finds out she's engaged to his sports rival and his companies biggest competitor ?
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"I don't know if I loved him or survived him. Maybe it's the same thing" He set fire to the world but never let a flame touch her. Aria is an English philosophy student chasing reinvention in Paris; a city romanticised by poets, but cruel to the lonely. Behind her sharp tongue and steady stare, is a woman shaped by absence and aching for intensity, connection, purpose. Tired of running, but terrified of staying still. She tells herself she's cold. She tells herself she's untouchable. Harrison is brilliant, sharp, unknowable. The kind of man who disappears mid-sentence, who walks like he's carrying sins he'll never confess. You don't fall in love with Harrison, you fall into him. With a past soaked in violence and a heart barricaded by guilt, he lives in exile from the world, and from himself. The last thing he ever wanted was to be seen. Drawn together by fate, or fatal flaw, they orbit one another like lit matches and gasoline. It isn't love, not yet. It's something more dangerous: recognition. And when the flame becomes a fire, who will get burnt? This isn't their story, it's yours. You've been here, haven't you? Where love feels like war, and silence is a kind of violence. Where you knew it would break you, and you still begged for more. Read on, if you're brave enough to feel yourself burn.
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