Chapter 1
Where fire met stillness…
I never expected love to grow in a house full of tension.
I never expected it to arrive as quietly as it did. It creeped in when I least expected it.
It turned into something more in such a short period of time. Whether it was the sound of cars pulling up or keys turning into the lock.
I remember the sound of the gate opening, the sound of a dog barking, hushed talking. I didn’t even expect my heart to catch fire in the middle of all that noise. But it did.
Before that he was just Jace. The guy whom life continuously throwed my way when I didn’t ask for it.
He moved in and everything changed.
“I didn’t mean to fall in love with someone who was taken. But love doesn’t wait for permission. “
Hell, it doesn’t even ask if the timings are right. It just shows up – quietly, like moving boxes at dusk and suddenly it’s everywhere.
I kept our story hidden in glances, in late-night prayers and whispered affirmations to the universe.
He was something else entirely. A comfort I didn’t ask for, but desperately needed. A softness that met my chaos, A hand that offered to catch me when no one else even noticed I’d fallen.
We weren’t supposed to become anything
But in this strange, sacred tangle of fate, heartbreak and hope …
We did.
We lived in the same house
But we were worlds apart
And somehow, even amidst the mess, I fell for him even more.
I fell…… Harder than I was ready for, in all the wreckage, he became the one thing I couldn’t undo.
Amara…..
