The Shape We Take
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ISBN13: 9798259421004
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 29 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some lives are chosen. Others are decided for you.
Mirela never believed she would become the kind of person who simply accepts what is placed in front of her. But when her future is arranged without her consent, resistance begins to feel less like strength and more like something that might break her entirely.
Mirela never believed she would become the kind of person who simply accepts what is placed in front of her. But when her future is arranged without her consent, resistance begins to feel less like strength and more like something that might break her entirely.
Stefan stands on the other side of the same life, bound by expectations he never agreed to, carrying a truth he cannot afford to reveal.
Between them, silence becomes a language of its own-measured in small gestures, unfinished conversations, and the careful distance they keep from one another.
What begins as something forced slowly shifts into something more complicated. Not love in the way stories promise it. Not freedom in the way they imagined. But something quieter. Something that exists in the spaces they are not supposed to claim.
As pressure from their families tightens and the outside world continues without them, Mirela and Stefan are left to decide what can be endured, what must be hidden, and what-if anything-can truly belong to them.
Because sometimes survival is not about escaping. Sometimes it is about learning the shape you can live with.
Between them, silence becomes a language of its own-measured in small gestures, unfinished conversations, and the careful distance they keep from one another.
What begins as something forced slowly shifts into something more complicated. Not love in the way stories promise it. Not freedom in the way they imagined. But something quieter. Something that exists in the spaces they are not supposed to claim.
As pressure from their families tightens and the outside world continues without them, Mirela and Stefan are left to decide what can be endured, what must be hidden, and what-if anything-can truly belong to them.
Because sometimes survival is not about escaping. Sometimes it is about learning the shape you can live with.
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