Angol
You know what it is to hold yourself together.
To show up dressed for the occasion when the occasion costs more than you have. To steer conversations away from certain corners. To let someone see enough of you - but never all of you. Not yet. Not until you know it's safe.
She has been doing it for over a year with Rome. A man who sends cars instead of asking questions. Who says I build things like that is the whole of him and means it. Who showed up to a neighborhood he was unfamiliar with one evening without being asked.
She never planned to fall for him. She planned everything else.
But plans have a way of falling apart in places you least expect. In moments you cannot take back. In the quiet that follows honesty.
Some secrets do not get kept forever. Some doors do not stay closed.
And some men drive across a city in the dark just to remind you that being seen was never the thing you needed to be afraid of.
The Harborview is a love story about pride, protection, and the courage it takes to be fully seen.
