The Anonymous Heartscape

Cecilia Moore and Rowan Sinclair meet by chance over the last chocolate éclair. It's brief, forgettable, and meant to stay that way.

Instead, they become friends. Slowly. Quietly. Through shared routines, unfinished conversations, and time that keeps folding them back into each other's lives. What they build feels safe because it remains undefined no expectations, no promises, no risk of loss.

Rowan grows attached first, though he never says it. Cecilia senses the shift but refuses to name it, afraid that once spoken, it will demand more than she's willing to give.

As the line between friendship and love blurs, they're forced to confront what happens when emotional intimacy arrives before readiness and whether some connections are doomed not because they fail, but because they are understood too late.

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