A Love Story That Calms Me
Rowan lives alone in a dangerous forest, feared by the world and unbothered by all of it — until a lost girl wanders in and mistakes him for the forest itself.
He laughed. She never lived it down.
Alisha arrived with nothing but worn clothes and a warmth that had no business surviving everything she had been through. Rowan took her in, called it hiring, and told himself it was purely practical.
It was never practical. Not even slightly.
What grows between them is slow, sweet and quietly inevitable — two people who never went looking for anything, accidentally building something neither can afford to lose.
How does someone feared by the entire world become completely, helplessly soft for one person?
She cried. He panicked. The rest was inevitable.