They were each other’s first mistake and first love rolled into one. From middle school hand-holding to high school heartbreak, she and Javon spent years locked in a cycle of jealousy, breakups, and makeups that never truly stuck. Then she reinvented herself sophomore year, climbed the social ladder, and left him behind without ever officially ending things. He acted like he didn’t care. She acted like she didn’t notice.
She rose from her southern church choir like a comet nobody asked for but everybody claimed once the glow hit. By twenty-one, she was Hollywood’s prized Black songbird, the kind executives hoarded and men in shiny watches treated like an accessory they could pocket. They carved pieces out of her confidence, her time, her body, her voice, and called it “career growth.” Every handshake came with strings, every promise with a trapdoor. The world adored her, but the people closest to her kept draining her dry and insisting she smile while they did it.
Javon Coleman is a corporate lawyer who believes in cause and effect, not destiny, and certainly not soulmates. That belief becomes impossible to maintain when the same woman keeps colliding into his life with mathematical precision. Their meetings are unavoidable, physical, and escalating, as if reality itself is shoving them together.