Long After Our Curtain Closes (GxG)
37 parts Complete Astrid Vale lives for stories-uncovering truths, chasing leads, bringing light to the unseen. But love? That's a story she's never been able to hold onto.
Then she meets Maeve Ellison.
Maeve is steady, kind, quietly brilliant-the kind of love that doesn't demand to be chased, only chosen. Their story begins with spilled coffee and laughter, unfolding in soft, unhurried moments-dawn-lit conversations, hands finding each other in crowded streets, the quiet certainty of home in a person, not a place.
Astrid whispers, "I'll be the one that stays 'til the end." And Maeve believes her.
But love is never truly prepared for what life has planned. Shadows appear between them-small at first, like a song just out of reach. Unspoken words. Lingering silences. And then, a truth Astrid never saw coming.
Suddenly, time becomes more precious than ever.
In the end, Astrid does what she has always done best-she tells their story. Not just in ink, but in love, in memory, in the quiet promise that some people are never truly gone.
Under city lights, she whispers the only thing she has ever been certain of:
"I will always love you the way I'm supposed to."