Close Enough to Break

De: Heather Lynn

Narrado por: Elijah

Clara Evans had always fancied that love, real love, was stitched together with threads of trust—not the tight grip of control. But things began to shift the moment Austin Blake, her once-steadfast companion and childhood confidant, took up a new post alongside Charlotte Harper—a woman with a laugh like a charm and a persistence that could wear down mountains.

Where once there had been easy conversation and the warmth of shared memories, there now bloomed silence, brittle and unfamiliar. Clara, who had grown up next door to Austin and loved him with the quiet certainty that only years could teach, found herself tracing his absence in the half-smiles of social media photos and in the echo of other people’s whispers.

Jealousy—an emotion she’d long believed herself above—crept in like ivy, twisting around her thoughts. Had she mistaken companionship for romance? Devotion for destiny? She had followed him down the winding corridors of adolescence, convinced that their bond was something unshakable. But now, with Charlotte’s presence glittering like a coin tossed into a still pond, Clara began to wonder whether she had built her love on foundations far softer than she dared admit.

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