Ethan leaves a comment on a livestream and doesn’t think much of it afterward, because there are too many people watching and too much noise for anything he says to matter for long.

Out of thousands of messages, she remembers his.
 Not what he said, but his name.

Raina doesn’t believe in coincidences because, in her experience, people leave and people forget, and she learned early on that most things don’t stay unless you make them stay.

When she recognizes Ethan again after years, she does not rely on chance. She creates the conditions for them to meet again.

A job request is made. A meeting follows. Then another, arranged in a way that feels natural enough not to question.

Everything appears normal on the surface, and that is exactly why Ethan doesn’t question it, even when something in him quietly tells him he should.

He tells himself he is overthinking, that she is simply kind, and that the way she shows up exactly when he needs her is nothing more than timing.

But the closer she gets, the harder it becomes for him to separate his daily life from her presence in it.

Because Raina doesn’t chase.

She keeps.

And once you matter to her, distance is no longer something that remains an option.


This book is a physiological thriller/ mystery /romance themed story told from a dual first person  prospectives and a third person prospective ....so we can explore each sides of the story from different sides but it's told mostly from raina's side because she's the one with all the secrets ...

Cover art and character art by : dreamer_zeyrcel
Character art by : the slumbering cat
Discord : Gloria_Austin_8799

Every few seconds my eyes drifted back to the screen, searching for a message that wasn't there, waiting for Tengu's men to tell me they had found Rhonda, waiting for something—anything—that would tell me this entire trip hadn't been a waste of time. while I sat here asking Kuro about his childhood and his dead family .


Or so I believed until Kuro set his empty mug on the table, looked at me with something that was not quite amusement and said, "Don't bother."


"Don't bother." He said it again with the same mild certainty, the same way someone said something when they were not trying to convince you but merely informing you of a fact. "They won't find anything here."


Kuro got up from his chair, he picked up the coffee cup he'd been drinking from earlier and walked toward the tiny sink built into the trailer's kitchenette.


Chapter 87 - I was the prey all along ...