LOVE & ITS FAULT LINES

Book Three of the Methods & Ruins Series
Skylar Castillo was never supposed to feel safe with him.
Not after everything.
Not with so much history pressing against her ribs.
Not when grief still lingers in the quiet.

Stephano Enzo Morelli was never supposed to want her.
He knows better.
He knows silence is safer than confession.
He knows some lines, once crossed, cannot be uncrossed.

And yet-
They orbit each other.

One day they are soft glances and shared stillness.
Next are sharp words and wounded pride.

Skylar cannot tell if what she feels is healing
or betrayal of her own heart.

Enzo cannot tell if keeping his distance protects her
or pushes her straight into resentment.

They are not strangers.
They are not lovers.
They are not enemies.

They are something in between.

And that space-

is where longing turns into tension,
where silence turns into misunderstanding,
where love begins to feel dangerously close to war.

Because some fault lines do not split you apart immediately.
They shift quietly beneath Skylar and Enzo-
until neither of them remembers
whether they are fighting each other...
or fighting the fact that they can't walk away.