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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    Fina Valero is nineteen years old, lives in the gatehouse of the
    De la Reina estate with her father, and works at his garage.
    A year ago, she drove to an exam hall and couldn't get out of the car.

    Now Digna — the woman who raised her, the aunt of the woman she's
    been in love with since she was fifteen — has arranged private
    literature lessons with Marta de la Reina. PhD. Brilliant.
    Precise. Devastating in a green blouse.

    Fina has eleven years of practice not looking too long.
    She's about to run out of room.

    (Beginning)

    This is a modern AU. No 1958, no colony, no perfumery — just a
    small town in Toledo, an old estate, and two women on either side
    of a class divide and a thirteen-year age gap, neither of which
    matters until it does.

    Fina is g!p. This will be relevant later and handled with care.

    Chapter count is unknown. I know where this ends. Getting there
    is the point.

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    22 Mar 2026

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    Carol misses those nights when she took silence and sleep for granted. It’s been two weeks since they have stopped, and the repercussions are starting to show in the sluggish way she moves about in the morning. In the headaches that remind her of the worst kind of hangover. And in the irritation she feels at the slightest inconvenience, or even at her lack of inspiration when she sits in front of a blank document on her computer.
    Well, maybe that last part isn’t entirely someone else’s fault. But still, she should do something about the fucking noise.
    [...]
    “Well, then? Do you need something?”
    Carol takes a deep breath. For the first time since moving in this awfully sleazy apartment complex, she’s about to be the wet blanket everybody hates – or maybe appreciates for the intervention, she hopes.
    “Yeah,” she mutters and points to the door. “Could you turn it down? I – I’m trying to get some sleep.”
    The other seems to ponder her request for a second before shrugging. “It’s not that loud.”

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    a new tenant moves in the upstairs apartment. She's loud, careless, annoying. And hot. And Carol has a hard time dealing with that.

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    22 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    “No shit. Not sure I wanna wear a stranger’s panties, though.”

    “Your loss. I’ll even let you keep them. Call it a souvenir from your first night in London.”

    OR: 33-year-old Carol Sturka goes to a writer's networking event in the hopes of bagging herself a book deal, and, instead, finds a charming Polish model.

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    27 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 11

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    Seventy-five days after the Joining, Carol Sturka is still immune - and still alone.

    As the hive's quiet promises grow more personal, Carol begins to question what was real: the love she felt, the choices she made, and the cost of resisting a world that insists it only wants to share its happiness.

    With time running thinner than she expected, Carol must confront the possibility that saving humanity may mean losing the one person she never meant to sacrifice.

    Because the Union doesn't threaten.

    It loves.

    And it never stops waiting.

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    27 Feb 2026

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    “Look, I don’t have time for this! If you lost my eggs, or let them defrost or something it’s fine. I don’t need ‘em anymore. So you can—“ 

    “They were implanted in another woman.” Clifton speaks quickly, rushing so fast to make his confession that the words almost blend together.

     

    Carol finds out her eggs were wrongly implanted in to a stranger, and her life is turned upside down overnight when she's drawn in to the woman's world.

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    27 Feb 2026