**Content Warning:**
This story is intended for an **adult audience** and deals with mature emotional and sensual themes.
For years, Christine has moved through her life like a shadow—working the same small job, drinking the same afternoon coffee, and returning to a home that feels more like a waiting room than a home. Beneath her careful routines, however, burns a fierce and restless passion she has never dared to live out loud. When a chance encounter shatters the predictable rhythm of her days, Christine finds herself drawn toward desires she has long ignored and choices that threaten to uproot the life she’s built. As the lines between longing and liberation blur, she must confront the truth she has buried deepest: the cost of staying small in a world where her heart was meant to blaze.
Felicity Arvizu takes on... 