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    This idea was born from a fic I read here on AO3 and genuinely could not stop thinking about. I kept waiting for someone else to write more stories like it. Eventually I decided to write one myself. Consider this my love letter to that premise.

    Hannah Wells is not a damsel. She wants that on record. She survived the worst night of her life and walked away. Just not the way anyone might have expected. She walked away with a daughter—bright and stubborn and entirely worth it—and the unshakeable conviction that she would never need anyone to save her again. She survived. She rebuilt. She is still rebuilding.

    Garrett Graham doesn't do complicated. Hannah Wells is the definition of it—guarded, exhausted, and holding everything together through sheer force of will. When the scholarship keeping her afloat starts to slip and the walls she's built threaten to come down with it, the last person she expects to steady her is him. She doesn't know how to ask for help. She's never let herself. Then Garrett shows up and stays, and Hannah is forced to reckon with the possibility that needing someone and losing yourself are not the same thing.

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