Soft collapse
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Ongoing9m
Last published Tue, Jul 8, 2025
Juliet doesn't remember the fall-only the silence that followed.Diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder and haunted by things she refuses to name, she is sent to recover under the care of a man with colder eyes than the hospital walls. Kael is clinical, unreadable, and everything she shouldn't want.But in the hollow between her episodes and his secrets, something starts to bloom. Something like obsession.As ghosts return, blood stains more than sheets, and her body starts betraying her again-Juliet has to ask:
Is she healing... or unraveling?
And what happens when the person keeping you alive is the one who's breaking you
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