Still Inside the Storm
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MatureOngoing1h 19m
Last published Wed, Jul 2, 2025
She's desperate not to be left. He's terrified of getting too close.
At 23, Elowen Roiley is barely holding herself together-haunted by trauma, anxiety, and a loneliness she hides behind oversized hoodies and quiet smiles. Her only constant is Roxy, her rescue dog... and weekly sessions with her therapist, Dr. Loran Holly.
But when Dr. Holly introduces her to a "buddy program," Elowen meets Hugo Vellor-a brooding, ex-Marine with walls built as high as hers. Distant yet overprotective, Hugo watches over her like a storm just waiting to break. Elowen clings to him, convinced that if she's enough-if she's needed, wanted, sexual-he won't leave.
But love doesn't work like that. And Hugo knows it.
Tangled in trauma and drawn together by something neither fully understands, they'll have to confront their pasts, their fears, and each other. Because sometimes the person you're most afraid to lose... is the one who forces you to heal.
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