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Round after Round
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Ongoing, First published Oct 11, 2025
Mature
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Aleksander Novak finds comfort only in chaos - in the roar of the crowd, the sting of sweat, the split of skin against glove. The ring is the only place the noise in his head makes sense. Outside of it, the silence is unbearable.

Aubrey Anderson has built her life around control. As a nurse, she's calm, collected, and always the one holding others together - even when she's quietly coming undone.

When a rainy evening brings them face-to-face in a sterile hospital room, neither expects anything beyond routine care. But with one touch sparks something neither can ignore.

He's a fighter who only knows chaos.
She's a healer who lives for order.
And together, they'll learn that healing doesn't always come from stillness - sometimes it starts with a spark.

Round After Round is a slow-burn romance about resilience, vulnerability, and the kind of love that hits harder than any punch - the kind that teaches you that the quiet after the storm might just be where peace finally begins.
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"Help, I have done it again, I have been here many times before." - *Breathe Me*, Sia . . . . . . . . . . Some loves hurt. Some loves scar. And some loves leave bruises you learn to hide. AURORA has already learned the cost of trusting the wrong person. She's careful now. Guarded. Built from walls and sharp edges, stitched together with survival and stubbornness. Love, to her, is something that breaks - not something that stays. And then there's THEO. Infuriating. Impossible. Too perceptive for his own good. He sees the cracks she pretends aren't there. The softness she buries. The fear she refuses to name. He is her storm - loud, reckless, relentless. She is his shelter - quiet, steady, the place he doesn't know how to deserve. Every fight pulls them apart. Every stolen moment pulls them closer. Every heartbeat risks shattering what little they have left intact. Because when the past refuses to loosen its grip, when love feels like standing too close to the flame, sometimes the only way forward... ...is to set yourself on fire. . . . . . . . . . . He never meant to fall this hard. She never meant to let him in. But some hearts don't break quietly. They bruise. "I think you're going to have to ask me again," I murmured, tilting my chin up. "But like, really nicely this time." Theo blinked. "You're serious?" "Deadly." A second passed. Then another. I watched the way his tongue ran along the inside of his cheek, watched his hand flex like he was trying not to grab me too fast, too rough. And then, softer now-different-he said, "Rory." Just my name, but it held more weight than anything else. "Please, baby. Let me kiss you."