The Sweetest Trap
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Last published Tue, Jun 2, 2026
TW: This story contains themes of grooming, emotional manipulation, and domestic violence. Please read with care.
Calia Jean Rivers has always been the quiet one. Smart, gentle, invisible in all the ways that kept her safe... until the night her cousin drags her to a party she never planned on attending.
That's where she meets Adrian Hale - older, beautiful in a dangerous way, and sweet enough to feel safe.
Sweet enough to trust.
Sweet enough to fall for.
But sweetness can be a mask.
And the closer CJ gets to him, the more she realizes love can feel warm... right up until it burns.
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