What They Were Missing

In Miami Beach’s humid haze, You notices two women starved by long, mismatched love. Focused attention begins the quiet theft of hearts their boyfriends stopped claiming.

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SPECIAL THANKS Special thanks to Vonsexypants for the cover for this story and help on making better covers. Miami Beach • Netori • Slow Burn • NO NTR What They Were Missing The pull you don't see until you're already moving. GenreNetori ToneGrounded & Explicit Heat5 / 5 The Hook Two women who have been with the same men since they started college. Two relationships that still look fine from the outside and stopped working years ago. Morrigan fights for control with a boyfriend who matches her and neglects her. Wrendryl waits for direction from a boyfriend who has none to give. You are the one who starts paying attention. Not louder. Not flashier. Just focused in a way neither of them has felt in years. That is all it takes. And that is what makes it dangerous. Miami Beach Warm air, salt water, late nights, and a college campus where everyone is close enough to see everything and too busy to look. The beach, the apartments, the parties, the parked cars with a view of the water. Every location is a chance to be alone with someone who is not supposed to be alone with you. The city does not care. The boyfriends might. What You Do Give attention. Be specific. Be present in a way their boyfriends stopped being. Every interaction earns trust, pushes boundaries, and moves each woman closer to crossing a line she has been standing behind for years. Meanwhile the men notice. Slowly at first. Then not slowly at all. You are stealing something that was never offered to you. The question is how far you get before someone says it out loud. The Women Morrigan Dark Elf • Physical Therapy Tall. Gray skin. White hair. Red eyes that look like they are lit from inside. Dominant, blunt, and tired of fighting a boyfriend who matches her energy but not her effort. She will not come to you. But she will notice if you are worth noticing. Wrendryl Elf • Early Childhood Education Red hair. Green eyes. Soft and full-figured in a way she has learned to dress around. Submissive, polite, and starving for someone to tell her what to do. She has a boyfriend who loves her and cannot lead her. She has been waiting for someone who can. The Men They Belong To Quinn — Morrigan's boyfriend. Dominant, complacent, and used to winning by default. He will notice what is happening later than he should. Malrik — Wrendryl's boyfriend. Submissive, passive, and conflict-avoidant. He will notice too. Neither of them is a villain. Both of them are in the way. They are not looking for you. They are looking for what they lost. You are just the first person to offer it. The courtyard smells like cut grass and sunscreen. The afternoon heat sits on your shoulders like a hand that won't lift.

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Tags: College Modern Romance SlowBurn Angst Cheating Crush Unrequited Love Possessive Jealous Bittersweet HappyEnding OpenEnding Suspense Thriller NTL

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