BENEATH THE SURFACE

Healing isn't about fixing-it's about choosing to trust again.
Eva Laurent expects nothing from the trauma survivors' support group. She goes out of therapeutic obligation, listens in silence, and carefully maintains her life in a rigid structure that protects her from chaos. Then she discovers the group's online forum and, in the protective anonymity of the screen, she begins to read.
Noah has been a member of the kink community for ten years, but recently he's started questioning everything he thought he knew. After seeing too much damage caused by ignorance and lack of trauma awareness, he joins the forum to learn-not to teach, not to recruit, just to understand.
What begins as a cautious conversation on a forum becomes an unexpected connection. Noah doesn't propose to "fix" Eva. He doesn't present BDSM as therapy. Instead, he shares how radical consent, negotiated control, and chosen vulnerability helped him rebuild his own relationship with trust.
Eva wasn't looking for a solution. And certainly not in a practice that seems to be the antithesis of everything she's trying to control. But sometimes healing means doing exactly what terrifies us most-choosing vulnerability with someone who truly understands what it costs.