"Deceived" Michael Afton x Reader

It was supposed to be simple, but Y/N's life never was. Nothing ever went the easy way for her. One moment she was a kindergarten teacher, barely into her second year, shaping tiny lives and lesson plans and the next, she was uprooted and dumped in Hurricane, Utah under the suffocating label of witness protection. Protection from what, exactly, she still didn't know.

Somehow, through a mess of half-explanations and sealed files, she'd been dragged into a cold case tied to her mother's ex-husband: a man she hadn't thought about in years. No one bothered to explain how that justified turning her life upside down. The CIA hadn't even considered the small detail that she might want a job. So her classroom was replaced with a pizzeria, chalk dust traded for flour and grease.

At least her expenses were covered, save for her personal needs, but that did little to soften the absurdity of it all. Safe or not, her new reality felt less like protection and more like punishment. And no matter how she tried to make sense of it, one thought kept circling her mind: what the hell had she been dragged into?

(NOT MY ARTWORK ON COVER)
Cover Artist Credit: @rhroup_ [Instagram]