ILLICIT

Their secret remained hidden from the world—casual greetings on the street, nothing more. Her parents' eight-acre vegetable farm provided the perfect cover, allowing them to communicate through notes tucked into a scarecrow's weathered pocket.

"Morning Doctor Williams, I hope you don't scare any patients today!"

"I hope not, you have a great day!"

A simple exchange, meaningless to passersby, yet laden with significance only they understood. Two souls maintaining their illicit bond in plain sight, never drawing suspicion through their restrained interactions.

Everything shattered when her father decided to refurbish the scarecrows. The discovered note ignited a fury that sent him gathering his brothers, armed and determined, toward Cameron's doorstep for a reckoning neither could have predicted.