Bad Habits
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Last published Wed, Oct 8, 2025
She wasn't looking to be saved.
He wasn't supposed to care.
Beck's past is stitched together with secrets, scars, and the kind of pain she's learned to carry alone. Running has always been easier than trusting-until the night she meets Cassian.
He's a stranger with a dangerous edge and eyes that see too much. He doesn't flinch at her darkness. He doesn't back down.
What starts as survival slowly turns into something neither of them expected: connection. But when two broken worlds collide, love isn't soft-it's raw, messy, and it demands the truth.
Because some habits are harder to break when your heart's on the line.
🔥 Dark romance | Trauma | Slow burn | Strangers to lovers | Gritty pasts | Found family
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