You were never Broken (Criminal minds)

Valeria Bennett was only twelve when her world unraveled-her parents and brother murdered in their home, leaving her to pick up the pieces and protect her toddler sibling. The brutal case marked the first for the fledgling Behavioral Analysis Unit, and it left scars that would follow her into adulthood.

Now thirty-two, Valeria returns not as a victim, but as one of the FBI's sharpest minds-a profiler with a past that still echoes in every interview room. Her arrival at Quantico isn't just a return to the place that saved her-it's the beginning of a storm she never saw coming.

Aaron Hotchner, the BAU's stoic Unit Chief, is everything Valeria should avoid: closed-off, commanding, and off-limits. Yet beneath his unwavering professionalism lies something broken in its own right, something that recognizes the haunted quiet in her eyes. Their connection begins as a flicker-barely perceptible-but grows into something that neither of them can deny. It's messy. Complicated. Forbidden.

Especially when Valeria is still tethered to a marriage she no longer recognizes-chaotic, toxic, and built on control.

As the team uncovers chilling cases across the country, Valeria finds herself relying more and more on the family she's found in them-their support a lifeline as she wrestles with the ghosts of her past, the cracks in her present, and the impossible tension with the man she was never meant to fall for.

This is a story of survival, healing, and the dangerous kind of love that refuses to stay buried.

Not every scar fades. Not every line is meant to be followed. And sometimes... the most dangerous truth is the one you try not to feel.

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