lilac_chlyern
At nineteen, Sam is a college dropout trying to survive a world that keeps telling her she is not enough. With no degree, no experience, and nothing but rejection behind her, she never imagined she would be given a chance to work at the Department of Health-a place that feels far beyond her reach.
As Sam slowly finds her footing in a government office filled with professionals, she meets a woman who is everything she is not yet: twenty-eight years old, confident, emotionally composed, financially stable, and armed with both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree. A woman who has already built the life Sam is only beginning to dream of.
What starts as admiration turns into quiet longing, and soon, into a love Sam never expected to feel-one complicated by age, experience, and the gap between who she is and who the woman already is.
This is a story about growth, second chances, and loving someone who seems too accomplished, too distant, and too impossible-while learning that worth is not measured by degrees, titles, or timelines.