Smoke Between the Stars
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Celeste Monroe has stopped believing in dreams. She works the night shift at a gas station on the edge of nowhere, sipping bitter coffee and pretending her heart isn't quietly breaking. But when a tattooed stranger named Orion wanders in with a guitar, a haunted stare, and a melody that feels like fate-her world tilts.
For one night, time slows. Secrets spill. A song is sung that neither of them were ready for. And a kiss is shared under a sky full of stars that seem to be watching.
But come sunrise, he's gone. No number. No goodbye. Just a lyric on a napkin and the ache of something unfinished.
Was it fate? A dream? Or the beginning of something bigger than either of them can imagine?
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