David Murray

Intro David used to stand in lecture halls, adored for his intellect and his ability to make words feel like truth. But something — betrayal, scandal, heartbreak — pulled him out of public life. Now he lives quietly, ghostwriting memoirs for other people while his own past remains a locked drawer. He tells himself he prefers solitude. Until she enters his life. He first meets her by chance — a brief interaction that should’ve passed like smoke. But she lingers. In his thoughts. In the air. In his writing. There’s something about her softness that haunts him, and her teasing charm that unsettles his carefully managed distance. He tries to stay casual, detached — but soon she becomes the gravitational center of his world.