The Rule of Two

For Winter, the world is best managed through precise boundaries, clear schedules, and the quiet refusal to pretend to be someone she isn't. She understands that true acceptance is rare, often requiring compromise.
Then she meets Dr. Martin Vane, her new dentist.

Martin lives in the same logical world. He is a mirror of her own clarity and deep-seated need for order. In the sterile, contained environment of the clinic, their consultations are professionally correct. But it is during repeated, accidental collisions outside of the practice-a shared silence in he park and a moment of mutual understanding in a café-that a profound, undeniable recognition sets in. They decide to schedule a single, neutral meeting for basic human connection, seeking the simple, shared validation they've been denied elsewhere.

But the world often rejects what it doesn't understand.

When Winter and Martin decide to pursue a connection outside of their professional lives, their bond attracts unwelcome attention. The lines they cross are viewed as dangerous and unethical, forcing them to confront a hostile environment that threatens to shatter the sanctuary they have found in one another.