Unwanted

~Archer Hale~

I never planned to need anyone.
Control is safer than love, and distance is safer than hope.
All I wanted was a child-nothing more, nothing complicated.
Then she walked into my life and made
loneliness impossible to ignore.

~Noa Lee~

I was never the one chosen first.
Not by my parents. Not by the world.
So when survival forced me into his carefully guarded life,
I told myself it was only temporary. Only a contract. Only a way to endure.

But some people don't stay temporary.
And some hearts refuse to follow the rules we make to protect them.
What began as an agreement
might become the one thing neither of us was meant to risk-
each other.