We Never Melted

They were strangers once, until childhood bound their hearts.
They were strangers again, after one winter shattered hers.

Three years later, Ivy returns to the mountains to celebrate a holiday she never planned -
where snow falls too quietly,
secrets breathe too loudly,
and the past waits patiently beneath the ice.

Liam should have stayed gone.
With cold apologies and warmer eyes, he is everything she remembers and nothing she can trust.
He is taken.
She is not his.

But the storm has its own rules.

When a blizzard buries the resort and the world shrinks to frozen walls and unfinished stories, Ivy is forced to face the boy who once broke her in front of everyone...
and the truth she never buried deep enough.

Love returns with a quiet step, unsettling and relentless -
asking if first loves can thaw,
or if some winters are meant to last forever.