Tangled Heartbeats

Some people enter your life gently.
Others crash into it like a storm you never saw coming.
Alina has spent most of her life giving pieces of herself away - to abandoned animals, broken souls, and people who never stayed long enough to understand her. Loving too deeply has always been both her greatest strength and her quietest weakness.
Travis, on the other hand, built his entire world around control. Controlled emotions. Controlled relationships. Controlled chaos. Detached, guarded, and impossible to read, he's the kind of man people admire from a distance but never truly know.
They were never supposed to matter to each other.
But somewhere between late-night conversations, unfinished confessions, hidden loneliness, and hearts carrying more damage than either of them admits, the line between strangers and something dangerously intimate begins to blur.
Because some people don't heal you peacefully.
Some people unravel you.
And sometimes, the scariest thing about falling in love isn't losing yourself- it's finally being seen.