Limerence

There's a special kind of madness in loving someone who doesn't love you back.

Nina knows this better than anyone.

Every day, she walks into Haven Café, orders the same coffee, and pretends the owner's smile is meant just for her. Jad is warm, kind-everything her chaotic life is not. Between her dead-end job as a secretary, her mounting bills, and the relentless weight of single motherhood, his café is the only place where the world feels soft.

But Jad doesn't love her.

He doesn't know her.

And yet-she swears he lingers when he hands her the cup. She replays every offhand compliment, every accidental brush of fingers. She even brings her son, Leo, hoping Jad will see them together and understand: We could be a family.

But fantasies are fragile.

And when reality finally shatters the illusion, Nina will have to ask herself-was it ever really him she loved?

Or just the idea of being loved at all?