When the Storm Breaks

Secrets are quiet things. Until they’re not.

This town was supposed to be Calla’s fresh start.
A reset. A chance to finally feel like herself again.
And it was—until her best friend was murdered, and it all fell apart.

With no arrests, no leads, and no one asking the right questions, Calla is left with a silence that’s loud in all the wrong places.

So she starts pulling at threads.
And one of them leads straight to Haiyden.

He’s brooding. Watchful. A little too steady for someone who feels so impossible.
Too present to be a stranger. Too unreadable to feel safe.
But when he looks at her, it’s like he already knows how this ends.

Their connection is unexplainable. Messy. Disarming in a way neither of them is ready for.
Somehow, it’s the only thing that holds while everything else breaks.
A lifeline.
A connection she never saw coming.

Because Haiyden’s hiding something that could destroy everything.
And the closer Calla gets to the truth, the more it feels like betrayal wearing grief’s disguise.