The Unexpected
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Last published Sun, Jul 6, 2025
She swore she'd never fall in love again. Not after everything she survived.
Danaia "Naia" Dolohov is a single mother piecing herself back together after years of being broken... by words, by hands, by silence. Love, for her, has always meant pain, and safety was something she had to build on her own.
Until Aziel "Flynn" Flynn walked into her life.
Gentle where others were cruel. Patient where others pushed. Flynn isn't like the rest; and that terrifies Naia more than anything. Because just when she promised to guard her heart forever, he's the one who makes her feel again.
This is a story about healing, about choosing softness after storms, and about the kind of love that arrives when you've stopped looking.
The most unexpected kind.
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