Thin Lines

Some wounds don't heal. They wait.
Five years ago, Nora walked away from Carter O'Connor without a word —no warning, no goodbye, no explanation. What they had wasn't a relationship.It was a collision. Obsession disguised as desire, passion twisted with betrayal. When he destroyed her trust, she buried every trace of him and never looked back.
Now he's returned — same city, same world — and no one around her has any idea. Not her closest friends. Not her neighbours. Not the man who unknowingly pulled Carter back into her orbit like the universe has a cruel sense of humour. Carter acts unbothered. Controlled. Like the past is exactly where he left it.

But Nora knows better.
The moment their eyes meet across a crowded room, five years of silence ignites. The fury is still there. The heat. The dangerous pull she swore she'd outrun. Carter O'Connor never forgot what they were — and it's becoming impossible to pretend he did.
They were never exes. They were unfinished business.
And the line between hatred and obsession has never been thinner.