Emotional Chess

They say love saves, but what if it also suffocates?

Leah is seventeen and carrying the weight of a silence too heavy for her age. She smiles, pretends, even loves... but deep down, something is broken. A part of her longs to scream the truth. Another part needs to bury it forever.

Between half-lies and blurred memories, she's caught in a storm of guilt, rage, and desire.

Her mother tries to reach her, but Leah can't decide what hurts more -what happened that day... or what no one dared to ask.
And while everyone's looking for the villain, Leah knows sometimes the real monster is the one you tried to love.

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