Right Person, Wrong Season

Elena Romanov is twenty-three and already exhausted by responsibility.
She's broke, overworked, and focused on building a life that won't collapse if she looks away for too long.

Love isn't part of the plan.

Then she starts working closely with him - calm, capable, impossible to ignore - and the lines she's spent years holding steady begin to blur.

What grows between them is quiet and real.
The kind that settles in slowly.
The kind that asks for more than either of them is ready to give.

Because timing doesn't ask permission.
And sometimes the love that changes you isn't the one you get to keep.