Controlled Burn
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He knows better than to want her. She knows better than to let him.
Ava has one rule when it comes to working with Jon Bernthal: keep it professional.
She's a rehab professional. He's an actor. That's it.
Except Jon has a way of looking at her that makes professional feel harder to remember. A hand lingering a second too long. The way he watches when she's not looking. The quiet protectiveness he refuses to explain.
Ava tells herself he doesn't care about her.
Jon knows better.
What starts as tension neither of them is willing to acknowledge slowly becomes something much harder to ignore-and with a workplace full of watching eyes, and boundaries neither of them wants to cross, wanting each other might be the one thing they can't afford.
Some lines are meant to be crossed. Others are meant to be tested.
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