Mvp no rookie. Been seen the game ain’t spooky. They don’t know what it took me. The love of my glow they try to cook me. If you say you spiritual, enlightened, woke. Society tryna slay if you biblical by tightening the yoke. Break free. Dear God wake me.

Lion and jaguar. The iron got me on cause we at war. What’s it all for. Heaven or hell. The leaven is the spell. It’s a sunny day. That honey pay but folks thinks it’s a money day. Trumpets is being blown. They can’t pump it the seeing is known.

You are a spiritual soul. The truth is biblical told. Rejoice in hope. Destroy the dope. The more you show off is why your glow off. They hating on me but can’t go off. Glorify the Lord with your gifts. Illuminati can’t immortalize the war like the myths.

Let me expose the game. Don’t forget me when I bless the rose in the flame. Every race needs grace. DEI is just die scrambled up. The evil eye is the sky gambled up. Project 2025 is the heart check to see if you gon survive. Anywhere you turn the fire burn.

Don’t be scared of darkness and silence. Won’t be scared of the heartless or violence. God works thru you if your soul is willing. The panther lurks to devour you if the cold is drilling. In the air is a new feeling. If they cared folk would be healing.

The world turning cyber. The Word burning the viper. The new view is who knew. Rejoice in hope and don’t grow weary. We poised in hope and won’t grow scary. This is for all believers. Even when they blitz, God won’t leave us. That bullet missed thank Jesus.

I have to work with all my heart for the Lord. The staff is in the church when the myth is to start the war. Don’t get confused. Can’t forget I can’t snooze. Christ Jesus. Our rights is not for divas. We walking on a tight rope. They talking on night dope.

Continue in well doing. The venue is the spell brewing. God is my support. The heart can be distort. Look at the world in it’s totality. The Lamb’s Book in the Word is the apology. The suffering is sour but the Lord’s covering is my power.

My Lord and Savior is Jesus Christ. The eyes on the score is the labor of thesis in price. Can’t be ashamed of what I claim. I’m in the paint of what’s not tamed in the flame. The light within rebukes the night of sin. Holy spirit makes you win.

My heart is in the now. In the dark folk take that vow. The clock is how they move. On the stock is how they prove. The Word said don’t observe time. The world is dead cause they preserve the slime. Only God I fear. The holy scar is my tears.

Love is ultra in birth of the new smile that’s built. The culture of earth is do what thou wilt. Ignorance is the kiss of death. Innocence is the kiss of breath. What these actors thinking. Folk won’t cease from backwards linking. If you care why dare.

The Lord God Is my redeemer. The poor heart is a dreamer. Wake up and smell the truth. Don’t lake up in hell with nothing to soothe. The devil is coming with wrath. Every level folk summon the craft. I must come this way cause I trust that Jesus is the way.

No one is above critique. The Holy One is love of the antique. When I’m around they can’t speak. Don’t fear any soul on this earth. My tears ain’t cold cause the sun is my worth. Light of the world so they hide in the night of the world.

Do you understand that the game will always underhand. Don’t perish for a lack of knowledge. Won’t make a wish for a track of homage. Please pick up the Word. Jesus Christ is the Word. I’m talking biblical. I’mma walking miracle.

This is a spiritual war. Don’t be biblically poor. Open the miracle door. Salvation is the enlightenment of soul. Every nation in the sight of men is the pole. North or South. Back and forth is word of mouth. East to West the beast won’t let earth rest.

You must be free of all demonic activity within. The truth is trust when you see the atomic ability of sin. We’re fighting the power of darkness. Everywhere is the lightning in the hour of the heartless. Be watchful. Thank God for the breath in my nostrils.

There’s patience in love. Where’s the nations of dove. I’m praying for you to walk with God. They ain’t playing when you talk about God. I’m in a different dimension where only Jesus is mentioned. You can feel the tension. If you real they try benching.

Seek God’s face and stop chasing a bag. The meek is the heart’s grace cause the drop is erasing the tag. Her beauty is a miracle. My world’s duty is biblical. No Mark of the Beast. I go round the shark cause my love is peace.

If you don’t feel me it’s cause you tryna deal me. Until my last breath I’mma be the real me. Be still cause death can’t steal me. The reaper is being summon but I know Jesus is coming. You say you spiritual but are you biblical. Wake up grace is a miracle.

If you ain’t in the holy spirit how can you overcome the world. There’s no myth in the truth of why they fear it cause the plan is to overcome the Word. You can’t defeat the biblical. You can’t delete the spiritual. You can’t deplete the miracle.

Better wake up cause the beast running at max speed. Met her without makeup and she was stunning in flax seed. You seen how lazy folk got. You seen the vow don’t phase me cause the yoke is a bot. God is my everything. The heart is a wedding ring.

Lion of Judah not a jaguar. That iron scrubs the intruder no plague war. Repentance in the orb. Vengeance is for the Lord. I’m glad I waited. Turned me to a gladiator. Now they tryna throw me to the alligator. I’m here now you won’t catch me later.

Folk say raise your glass. I say praise the First and the Last. I’m talking about God. I’m walking by heart. They unlocking the dark. The inauguration is on the clock. If you don’t mention Jesus then every dimension is Illuminati’s thesis.

We live in a biblical generated world. Don’t give in to the spiritual incinerated world. They want you destroyed in dope. Pray and rejoice in hope. You must endure until the end. You get cured when you repent. Be pure for the sake of your intent.

Love is being spread even if they want the dove dead. I rather suffer instead to walk in dread. Thank God for my bread. First resurrection. They curse correction. Every verse is instruction. The stronger you get the hunger you forget.

We running out of time. Second coming in the prime. Satan summoned with the slime. The game been over. My name been sober. We at war with the darkness. Free in the Lord with the harvest. Not to sin only to win. Look within not at the skin.

Thank God, Lord have mercy. To keep it frank I know why they want to verse me. Their energy stank that’s why they want to curse me. The world is perverse tryna go back to reverse. The Word within is the universe. Life is one take no rehearse.

I speak by grace. Why tweak off race. That serpent tongue. I got the merchant stunned. It’s urgent no time for fun. I can’t afford to reject the Lord. See the bull at noon cause it’s a full moon. The furnace of affliction. Be earnest in reflection.

The issue is the spiritual basis of salvation. I don’t wish you cause the biblical is in every nation. Beyond the fabric. The world is tragic. Ain’t scared of no savage. Gifted soul I ain’t average. You can’t fight the night if you have no light.

God is so gracious. Got to give God all the praises. The heart of love is for all races. They throwing darts at the doves in all spaces. There’s a cost to carry your cross. Holy spirit keeps me updated. We live in a world where love is hated.

Passion of The Christ. Folk crashing out cause of the price. While you watching movies. They style the news by starching the rubies. Turn the channel off. They burn the handle off. Press to start. Test the heart. Cease from the evil. No peace for the ego.

I got a problem with your spirit not you. We can stop them really the Lord got you. Better drop the stem cause they tryna rot you. What’s good with humanity. For sin there’s a true penalty. You must be put through the fire to reboot the truth wired.

You ain’t got to go viral in the cryptic. I glow cause I spit what’s in the hieroglyphics. I don’t play with no charm. I just pray in the storm. You get slayed for being lukewarm. This ain’t frosted flakes. I ain’t exhausted I know my fate.

Nature is the original truth of the state of life. On my pager I seen the ritual proof of the fate in the night. New World Order is the earth under the beast. The Word orders the birth of thunder in peace. The birds quarter the worth of the streets.

I’mma have to tax for a feature. They got the wax for the creature. Gon have to fax the research. It’s getting out of hand. Just know life is in God’s hands. The world recognizes that sin is weaponized. The Word ain’t no heaven lies.

You better make sure your name written in the Lamb’s Book. The weather ain’t fake cause I ain’t tamed or hidden the way they slam to see if I’m shook. I’m not in the game, industry or league. Lemon and lime in the flame of heaven’s street no fatigue.

I’m wired to do God’s work. I ain’t tired to do hard work. This ain’t scripted. The saints is gifted. Give thanks Jesus is lifted. If you see the world shifted. Free those who think the Word is different. We’re all the same in Christ. True price.

War is brewing to a boiling point at every level. More spewing is oiling the point of every devil. Everywhere you turn is trouble. I ain’t scared cause that fire burn like double. No hate speech. This is a great teach. When time run out will the sun be out.

Everybody gon see the Bible true by way of God. Illuminati gon see their idol get slayed by God. Baphomet is in fear after we met. Told the beast no deal. Soul in peace what I know is real. I’m in the sheets of the Word. Folk in the streets of the world.

This is an inside job with help from the outside. The kiss of lob is a myth of self cause I come to God’s heart side. The Word won’t let anything slide. The world won’t forget the many that died. Why don’t we repent. Jesus really was sent.

I ain’t left the road. It’s the same episode. Every breath the secret is told. Every health the secret is soul. In front of God you seen like x-ray. I won’t stunt on God cause behind the scene my vibe is pray. Discipline is needed. The skin is defeated.

The power is in God's Hands. The cowards sin on God’s lands. Not saying we don’t make mistakes. I’m praying I won’t fake for the high stakes. I don’t do the lottery. They front cause the news is robbery. Stealing minds. We got to heal the blind.

We’re fighting a biblical war not a political war. Do you have salvation or not. The truth is the staff of ancient or what. The race battle is the dumbest. The grace shadows is from the test. Flying kiss colors. They lying we are sisters and brothers.

Once you wake up get saved so you don’t lake up. Folk announce that you fake up in your faith so don’t bake up. They try to pounce on your grave cause the cross is sake up. This war is deep. They playing for keep. Wait on God. Don’t hate on God.

Whether you love me or hate me. The weather of dove is free can’t bait me. You didn’t make me so you can’t break me. Where the weapons drawn. I ain’t scared I’m repping the dawn. Up like the dew. What it do. My heart brand new. All along everybody knew.

I’m on a hundred call. They tryna push the Sunday law. I’m in God’s hands. There’s sin in all lands. The devil don’t care. Every level don’t you dare. Your soul is headed to Judgement Day. My soul is dreaded cause of the corruption folk play.

Spiritual service of worship. Biblical got them nervous cause folk been purchased. Cry out to God. Walk a mile to God. I ain’t pressed by race. I confess in Jesus I have grace. Skin color has confused the world. The mint of I love ya has produced the Word.

50 so who with me. The world is shifting. Agenda 2030. I don’t do return to sender that’s dirty. Pray you repent. Slain for the intent. Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. God’s increase is the water of minister of the saved.

You got to be put thru the fire to see if you gon still sing in the choir. Jesus Christ is required. Them visas price is gon expire. Don’t give the devil an opportunity. Won’t get the metal I got that immunity. Walking in the holy spirit is my community.

I’m from the cosmos. How come we don’t have convos. The wrath hitting like combos. The math written equals all souls. Repent or perish. I don’t have any intent to make a wish. The wicked heart invent but I still glitch. The sick is bent and I won’t switch.

I got faith in God. I’m saved in the heart. I know I must endure. The glow is trust for what’s in store. You got to blush when you hear the score. I’m breaking the backboard. They faking for the rack tour. I’m praying for you. Christ was slain for you.

If you not seeing the bigger picture it’s cause you not reading the Scriptures. The world is on the brink of falling off the face of earth. The Word makes you think about the calling of grace for rebirth. They try to test me acting like they bless me.

The Lord coming like a thief in the night. The war is storming like a chief in the light. The truth is right in front of your face. The fruit of the night is to haunt your grace. The game is vomit. Folk can’t tame the comet. Christ is my rights.

If your own hate you what about the rest. They can’t clone my fate cause I’m blessed. Combination code. Abomination road. God is love. There is no heartless dove. Eternal security is in Christ. You don’t want to pay the price. Sin no more. Win the war.

The saints see the nukestorm is a cruel show. Can’t be lukewarm or neutral. What Bible you reading cause ain’t no idol that I’m feeding. That status of power is a drug. The atlas in this hour isn’t a hug. The lining for the coal is the mining of the soul.

I don’t collaborate with those who want to see me evaporate. They fabricate cause the world moving at a rapid rate. You can’t parrot fate I won’t have hate. Feel like a crime scene. I heal with lime behind the scene. Get ready for the unseen. No sunscreen.

The closer to the end is the time to kosher repent. Clean intent cause behind the scene folk invent. The solution is get rid of the confusion. We’re in pollution of the grid but who the sun choosing. No paganism. No graven image.

Stay out of the industry, game, league, the streets or the field. Pray out of the sin to degree cause the name is under siege for the beast of deal. Lot of hands switching. On the spot love’s plans transition. Folk on the pot cooking to keep bewitching.

Trace your roots to the start. Grace more fruits for the heart. Space is reboot for the stars. Talking to the rare ones. Walking I ain’t scared of none. Nuclear weapons. They got new fear for the blessing. Will it reach atomic. Blood spill cause of demonic.

Create your own realm. In fate it’s your own gram. Christ is the state of the lamb. The pain turned me to a lion. The rain burned me from dying. The love is waxing cold. The dove is classic soul. Nobody is going to win unless you destroy sin.

We’ve been given humanship. Folk been living for the dooming chip. Is God or the devil working thru you. In the heart every level they lurking who knew. I believe in Christ no vodou. Are you in the holy ghost. My scars remind I could’ve been toast.

Anything is liable to happen according to the biblical. Everything is viable is capping according to the spiritual. Associated Press. Rosicrucian test. Check the ingredients. God respects obedience. We got to duke it out cause the world gon nuke it out.

Mvp no rookie. Been seen the game ain’t spooky. They don’t know what it took me. The love of my glow they try to cook me. If you say you spiritual, enlightened, woke. Society tryna slay if you biblical by tightening the yoke. Break free. Dear God wake me.

Lion and jaguar. The iron got me on cause we at war. What’s it all for. Heaven or hell. The leaven is the spell. It’s a sunny day. That honey pay but folks thinks it’s a money day. Trumpets is being blown. They can’t pump it the seeing is known.

I have to mention Jesus. My staff in the dimension is the thesis. Parting the sea of sin to reach the souls. I’m starting to see to win you must reach the rose. Shift the planetary conscience. The gift is a granite of berry to launch us.

It's getting wild out here. Keep a aesthetic smile with no fear. Don't play with no evil. Don't pray for no evil. World War III is the new talk. The Word is how you open the door to the true walk. Trust in God. Don't lust after the heart.

My soul saying God bless. My soul praying for God's rest. Just cause you see thru the matrix don't mean you going to heaven. Trust the cost to free thru the matrix cause behind the scene is the leaven. You don't want no part of the heartless and darkness.

If they don't feel me then they gon grill me. When I healed me I became real free. Then I seen the game is filthy. We're all the same why you tryna milk me. In Jesus name they tryna silk me. It's apparent the craft of moth. I'm wearing the sackcloth.

I don't disregard that. They can't even guard that. I didn't get no call back. But I got it all back. I tell them you better fall back. Lot of folk think they all that. MVP and I ain't even got a ball stat. What do you call that. The Word real we knew that.

Got to dress appropriate. Got a test for the Pope if he really got faith. The Word on spot if you want to get past the grave. The world is locked cause they know there's those who are saved. Endure in salvation and always be brave.

It ain't fabricated so why are you agitated. The Word is accoladed. The world is calculated. We the church our God ain't faded. If you search our God made it. Talking about the Holy One. Who else could it be but the Father of the only Begotten Son.

Spiritual service of worship. Biblical verdict got folk nervous. My soul is not for purchase. Tryna hide the truth by different versions. Keep the psalms on your persons. I wake up and see what I'm versing. My mouth is clean no cursing.

No barrier. Holy spirit carrier. I want to marry her. Lion mode the game ain't scarier. No fear cause they want to bury ya. Every year I'm in a near area. Start of spring. Heart of wings. Get ready for a mass shooting. Better be already fasting with Putin.

Five O'clock you can't hide the soul in the rock. I cried cause I was in shock. We obeying the Lord not the beast. We gold weighing the cord not the leash. Valley of dry bones not rally of clones. Work harder than yesterday. Starter in the best of play.

The transcript is not on their protocol. Read that Sanskrit to Arabic and Hebrew with the overhaul. Stay sober like a flower in spring. Game over like the hour that sings. I left the symphony cause they kept pressing when you gon sin for me.

The Word in every language is the same, Jesus saves. The world is in every anguish cause of the game to decease us in the grave. I'm talking to the planet. I'm walking not taking anything for granted. In heaven my roots are planted.

Building up my faith. The children need to be saved. Every level we face the truth you can't escape. The devil want to see you in the yellow tape. The deception is real. The depression is healed. The Lord is my joy. In this war you can't toy.

Willing and able. I ain't dealing with no label. Folk drilling for the cable. There's no ceiling when you sip the maple. No blues. I got the juice. I was told not to snooze or I would lose. For salvation Jesus paid my dues. Fake news.

Welcome to salvation. God is the only One on the throne of ancient. The devil coming at every nation. Every level turn off the tv station. Folk send satan to give you a sensation. You need to be a lawyer of wisdom. We need to be a warrior in the system.

The world is fading. The Word is grading. Higher ups got a trademark on the air. I know what's up cause they gon have folk taking the Mark on air. In real time online or television. You can heal the slime of the mind if you on heaven's mission.

God is right here with you. I know it's hard but the light destroys the fear in you. Jesus is The Christ. They can't deceive us by tryna blind in price. Occult masters tryna make you lose the salt faster. The holy spirit make the devil's space a disaster.

True story. Got the juice and glory. All praises to God. All races of God. Energy tells all. Enemy got them bailed off. Judgement Day we all gon meet up. I'm trusting when I pray to get my feet up. Walking the narrow road. I'm talking to the sparrow's soul.

Illusion of choice. Confusion of voice. Things should have been changed cause things in hollywood been strange. Make sure you in heaven. Don't fake to cure if you leavened. Try to tell you that God won't fail you. If you in hell your heart can't bail you.

I see cosmic. It's gon be atomic. Let's see who pulls the trigger. Don't forget the truth got the wolves triggered. Folks blind by evil means. Turn to hulk when I'm kind in the ego's schemes. No violence in beast. I glow silence in peace.

Turn the news off. Tryna burn me cause I got the juice drop. Biblical vortex. Spiritual cordless. No bubble gum Word. Just know I ain't troubled by the World. I'm not here for the riches. No fear when the matrix glitches. Watch when they pull the switches.

I ain't bland. Make sure I cleanse my body glands. Stay pure to be in God's hands. Pray to be cured not for one hundred bands. Folk wants your blood for DNA strands. By the power of truth my heart stands. Forgive me God. The more I love it's to be in God.

If you don't believe in God why you tryna stop me from going to heaven.  If you won't receive God then you willing to cop the Mark of leaven. So many historical figures had plans to enslave humanity. So many rhetorical figures have plans to save humanity.

I listen cause God said it. They want me shredded cause I'm dreaded. They want me at a dead-end cause where I'm headed. Change the settings the game is embedded. I live in salvation. The heart is riddled with temptation. God's lives in every nation.

The spiritual warfare is inevitable. The biblical warfare is incredible. It ain't over until we all at Judgement Day. The saints is sober in the steel cause they dread when you pray. The game over if you can't tame the cobra. Stay proper. Slay the chopper.

Humble code on that karma road. You reap what you sow. The truth is deep when you glow. Everybody in society already know. Are you really in love with truth. I can't believe folk sin in the dove's kiss of truth. Live like a saint and don't faint.

“Chrissy has always felt like she didn’t belong, but she never expected the reason to be hidden beneath the waves. Drawn to a haunted lighthouse and a mysterious underwater cave that calls to her, she begins unraveling secrets about her past—secrets that could change everything. As she searches for the magic she knows exists, she discovers something even more impossible: she is the daughter of a mermaid. But with dark forces determined to keep the truth buried, Chrissy must uncover her destiny before the tide pulls her under for good.”

This story is an unusual concept. Each chapter is a short story that takes place in each of the 50 states. The states are selected in the order they joined the Union

This story is under revision. I am currently rewriting the entire thing. Since this is the past version, I may continue to post the rest of the chapters.

Trusting people can be hard when there's someone trying to murder you on the loose. Especially when that someone tried to kill you on a trip only a few people were supposed to know about. Scarlett has to find out who is trying to murder her, but that's hard to do when she has so many people who are out to get her. And the fact that she's been known to be a ruthless ruler to her people doesn't help her case. With the help of a new friend and some old ones she starts investigating. Along the way she realizes she has loosened the reins on her feelings for her new friend, but will this affect her?

Kasi Williams, a young black woman from Detroit, has always found solace in the quiet strength of her independence. After the tragic loss of her parents in a devastating car accident when she was just a child, she and her older brother Jason clung to each other, building a life from the fragments of their shattered world. But when Jason is killed in a police shooting ruled an "accident," Kasi's heart is left in ruins. Seeking escape from the pain, she leaves everything behind and retreats to a serene, distant village in China, where the rolling hills and tranquil rivers offer a fragile promise of peace.

There, she meets Tang Wei Long (唐伟龙), a man whose name echoes wealth and prosperity, but whose life is shrouded in the cold isolation of his family's industrial empire. The Tangs, owners of a vast network of electronics factories in the bustling industrial hub of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, are known for their power and influence. Yet, Wei Long is drawn to Kasi not for her knowledge of his wealth, but for her authenticity-a rare gem in a world of superficial admiration.

When Wei Long first hears Kasi singing to a group of children, her voice carried a haunting beauty that stirs something deep within him. But as he tries to break through the walls she has built around her heart, he realizes that love may be the one thing his fortune cannot buy.

Will Wei Long's relentless pursuit of Kasi's heart be enough to mend the fractures of her past? Or will the weight of their differences keep them forever apart? Dive into this emotionally charged journey and discover if love can bloom where the world least expects it.

UPDATES WILL BE RANDOM.

Lena. 17. Lives in Velmora, a gothic England-esque fusion with NYC. She’s a brainiac. But reckless. Foolish. Will she stand up against injustice here? https://www.royalroad.com/profile/691361/fictions

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This story tells about a boy named Berry who adopted a stray puppy inside a box in the street and named her Toffee, which then later grow older together. The adventure start when there is a girl named Shea who is going to the vet as the same time with Berry and Toffee while Toffee having a checkup because she is often get sick in his old days, while Shea fallen from the stairs and the next thing happened, she become Toffee at night?....

Look, I was just a regular marketing whiz trying to make rent, until I humiliated myself in front of him.

Roman Valentus. Billionaire CEO, pure perfection, and unfortunately, my new boss.

Brooding? Check. Intimidating? Oh, absolutely. Likely to fire me on the spot? Let’s just say the odds weren’t in my favor.

But instead of getting my walking papers, I end up working closely with him on the biggest marketing campaign of my career. We clash. We argue. But somehow, between the late nights and lingering stares, he falls. We fall—fucking hard.

But love isn’t just stolen glances and ear biting. Our pasts are waiting to ruin everything. And with a man like Roman? Falling might be easy… but surviving it? That’s another story.

Just when I start thinking this might be more than just workplace crush, the past comes knocking—his, mine, and the kind that doesn’t take no for an answer. Because love is fun and all, but apparently, so is self-destruction.

So, the real question is: can I survive loving a man like Roman Valentus… and can he survive loving me back?

Devon

After Devon’s only supporter his dad died he spiraled into thoughts of negative self worth. When Devon meets Leo his entire world flips. Devon had convinced himself that it’s only safe to never care, but what about the way Leo made him feel? Will his new friend Leo be able to convince him that he deserves to be loved?

Leo

Leo’s life is perfect his mom accepts the fact that he’s gay and she doesn’t care at all, his brother doesn’t give two shits about it and is cool with it, and with his homophobic and alcoholic dad out of the picture he has nothing to worry about. When he meets Devon something in him changed. Can he convince Devon to trust him?

Cole

After his parents died in a car crash when he was two he was raised by his aunt. He became Devon’s best friend in eighth grade. In their freshman year Devon came out to him and David overheard and told everyone. What will he do if Devon finds out his biggest secret?

David

David’s dad just wants a reason to kick David out of the house. So as David faces getting kicked out of his house because of a secret he keeps he changes himself slightly. He becomes the school’s quarterback, he gets good grades except for math, and he dates the prettiest girls at school. So as the top jock he has to at least try and look homophobic. The only thing he can think of, pick on the first person who’s openly gay, that he can find anyway. When he overheard Devon telling Cole he had his victim. That would keep his dad proud and David in the house. David only cared about snowmobiling, getting into a good college, and getting a good job. At least he thought that was all he cared about.

Please keep in mind that this book is an LGBTQIA+ romance not made for homophobic or LGBT-phobic people. This book will have themes of death, sorrow, cussing, BL, and homophobia.

"The unforeseen bonds that arise from the depths of sorrow."

After Thomas Keen's mother's recent suicide, he finds solace in therapy and builds an unexpected  connection with his therapist Summer Evans. While confronting his own pain, curiosity drives an enigmatic relationship between the two. Somewhere in between, his vulnerability and evolving emotions blurred the lines between professional and personal.