Poison the butterflies
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Ivy used to think butterflies meant healing. Now she knows they can be poison.
Fresh out of a toxic breakup, Ivy falls into a "no-strings" situationship in the heart of New York-exactly the kind of distraction she promised herself she wouldn't need.
Enter Zayden: intoxicating, reckless, and completely unavailable. The kind of man who turns attention into a game, disappearing just enough to make her want more, even as rumors of his "other girls" start to follow her like smoke.
Then there's Caleb.
Zayden's best friend.
Quiet. Steady. Infuriatingly observant.
The man who doesn't chase her-until she becomes impossible to ignore.
Across crowded Manhattan bars and late-night conversations she swears mean nothing, Ivy finds herself pulled into something far more dangerous than lust: being understood.
One man is the rush she can't resist. The other is the safety she doesn't trust.
And in a city that never sleeps, Ivy is about to learn that not every butterfly is love.
Some are warnings right before the fall.
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