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Maren Vale came here to escape the wreckage of a small-town scandal and the ghosts of a corrupted sheriff’s office. Dr. Zayne’s been buried under his own backlog—paperwork, bodies. Together, they’re learning that silence can be its own language… and that control doesn’t always look like restraint.
She wasn’t supposed to love Boston. She came to disappear quietly, bury herself in night shifts, cold rooms, and the predictable order of the dead. But her first night at the morgue doesn’t go according to plan.
Dr. Zayne was the last person she expected to see again after that FetLife meetup. The one where he said almost nothing, but somehow left her rethinking every inch of space between obedience and choice.
Now, under the bright lights and stainless steel of the autopsy suite, that same quiet tension follows them. What began as a professional pairing starts to feel like a test of composure, respect, and something neither of them are ready to name.