The Static Between Us (bxb) ✔️
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ELLIOTT MERCER
I'm a stage manager and a pyrotechnics engineer. Normally, both aren't done by the same person, but I have a gift for both. Thanks to my father, who gave me space to be creative and follow in his footsteps.
Except now, it's led me to Los Angeles, where I have to spend the next several months following around a Popstar who'd taken a hiatus for three years.
Under mysterious circumstances.
I'm not a fan of snobby Popstars, and I make it a point to keep myself professional and not break the lines.
But Axiom Lucius starts to make me forget where I drew those lines. Even more so when I find out exactly what caused his hiatus.
Mental health matters to me, and his becomes part of my concern. I don't want him to fall again. I want him to rise back up like the damn phoenix he is.
Falling in love with Axiom wasn't part of my plan, and I shouldn't be entertaining such an emotion that I'd never felt before. Not when I swore to keep a professional distance. But as the concerts keep playing, I fall into the pit of desire with someone I shouldn't.
With someone I'm supposed to despise.
But I can't despise Axi.
I just can't.
What happens next? We're worlds apart in actual distance and career perspective. We aren't supposed to fit.
But why does everything that is supposed to feel wrong, feel so right for once in my life?
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