Rena

He chased her.

She warned him.

She never planned to stay.

For most of her life, Rena learned one rule: leave before you're left. Love was leverage. Attachment was temporary. Happiness was borrowed time.

Then she met Xavier.

A year ago, she tried to push him away. Manipulated him. Hurt him. Dared him to walk. He didn't.

Now she lives in his apartment. Sleeps in his bed. Shares a life that feels dangerously real.

But stability has always come with an expiration date.

As their relationship deepens, Rena finds herself confronting the past she tried to outrun - the choices she made to survive, the walls she built to stay untouchable, and the quiet fear that no matter how much he loves her, it won't last.

Told in dual timelines - the girl she was and the woman she's becoming - this is the story of what happens after the chase ends.

After the chaos settles.

After she says yes.

Because staying has always been harder than leaving.