Shadows between us
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Last published Tue, Aug 5, 2025
He watches her like she's the only thing keeping him alive.
She doesn't know he exists... yet.
Lena Vale lives a quiet life-working in a quaint flower shop, sketching in her notebook, and wandering the city in oversized sweaters and scuffed boots. To everyone else, she's just another soft-spoken girl with too many secrets and a camera that never leaves her side.
But to him, she's everything.
Silas Ward has never spoken a word to her. He lingers in the shadows, always just out of sight. He knows her favorite drink. Her morning routine. The way she tucks her hair behind her ear when she's nervous. He tells himself he's protecting her-from the world, from her past, from herself.
And from him.
But when a chance encounter pulls them into each other's orbit, Lena starts to fall-slowly, dangerously. Silas is cold, unreadable, and far too interested in her safety. He says all the right things. Does all the wrong ones.
Because love can look a lot like obsession...
And once she finds out the truth, there's no going back.
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