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The Softest Kind of Ruin

Short stories

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Nicole Evans never asked to be followed. She never asked for eyes in the dark, for a man like Keiran to orbit her life with silence and devotion sharp enough to wound. But obsession doesnt ask permission. It waits. It watches. It becomes inevitable. What began with missing men and shadows on rooftops soon unraveled into something far more intimate-an assassin who couldnt let go, and a woman who, piece by piece, stopped trying to make him. As friends vanished and her world narrowed, Nicole found herself drawn toward the very thing she feared most-not out of love, but recognition. In his violence, there was something terrifyingly tender. In his silence, something that listened more closely than anyone else ever had. Theirs is not a love story in any ordinary sense. Its a descent-a long, slow collapse into dependency, into surrender. A story told in bruises and shared tea, in blood and in stillness. A quiet unraveling that doesnt end in escape, but in a house by the sea, where memory lingers and echoes never fade. Some stories dont ask to be understood. Only remembered.