More Than Just a Project
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Last published Mon, Jun 2, 2025
Thalia Monteverde is the quiet achiever top of her class, always alone, and focused only on one goal to graduate with honors and stay out of trouble.
Zephyr Knox is the complete opposite the school's star athlete with no interest in academics, always late, always scowling, and never without a sarcastic comment.
They have nothing in common... until a school project on mental health forces them to work together.
What starts as an awkward partnership slowly turns into something more as they learn about each other's hidden battles secrets, pain, and fears they never planned to share.
But when the project ends, will everything between them end too?
Or did they create something that's more than just a project?
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