Cherry Gloss & Late Nights

Mia has always been good at leaving first. Good at staying unreadable. Good at keeping things light, controlled, and temporary.

She doesn't get attached. She doesn't get caught up. She definitely doesn't fall.

That changes the night she meets Nyla.

Nyla sees through her in a way that feels unsettling... and safe. She doesn't chase Mia's attention-she simply holds it. Quietly. Effortlessly. Like she already knows she's going to stay.

But just as Mia starts to let someone in for the first time, Jace walks into the picture-loud, confident, impossible to ignore. He challenges her, provokes her, and pulls a version of her forward she doesn't fully recognize... or fully want to resist.

Now Mia is stuck between two kinds of gravity:
one that calms her... and one that consumes her.

And for the first time in her life, leaving isn't the easiest option anymore.

Because no matter who she chooses...
someone is going to get hurt.

And it might be her.