Breaking Through Stone ~ Cole x reader | Ninjago Cole Brookstone

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゛ enemies to lovers ⸝⸝ .ᐟ 𑣲

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Shintaro Castle was never meant to be your home.

The royal family took you in when you had nowhere else to go - a title, a room in the castle, a place at their table. On paper, it looked like a fairy tale. You know better than most that fairy tales lie.

You remember a boy from before the walls went up - back when you still let people close enough to matter. He remembers you too. That's the problem.

Grief doesn't ask permission before it changes you. It just does. It teaches you to guard every door in the castle and every door inside yourself, to mistake silence for safety and distance for control. You wear "fine" like armor. Nobody in Shintaro's halls has seen you cry, and you intend to keep it that way.

But he was always stubborn enough to knock on locked doors anyway.

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