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Maya is a junior undergrad and Carina is a second year med student at WSU. Their chance meeting sparks an unexpected friendship filled with Carina's endless, bold questions about alpha physiology, while Maya quietly battles growing attraction and fierce jealousy. As their bond deepens, subtle shifts occur.
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02 Jul 2026
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Maya Bishop 34 years has spent years building an impeccable career and protecting every inch of it with surgical precision. As the lead of Cold Verdict, she knows exactly who she is, what she does, and how to stay in control. On screen and off.
Until the script changes.
Carina DeLuca 21 years , newly arrived from Italy, with no television experience and a thick accent she can’t quite hide, lands a recurring role on the show a role that requires her to work opposite Maya every single day… as her romantic interest.
Maya doesn’t understand the choice.
Too young. Too inexperienced. Too wrong.Carina notices from the very first look.
Between tense rehearsals, sharp corrections, and a chemistry on screen neither of them can explain, the line between acting and reality begins to blur.
Because some things were never in the script.
And some reactions… can’t be rehearsed.
this has been living in my head enjoy ✨
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16 May 2026
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Seventeen-year-old Maya Bishop creates a fake male profile because pretending to be a boy online feels easier than being herself in real life.
Sixteen-year-old Carina DeLuca, stuck awake in Italy at five in the morning, just wants someone to talk to.
Neither of them expects a late-night chat to become the one thing they can’t log out of.
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16 May 2026
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What happens when Carina DeLuca get the notorious 'Professor Bishop' for one of her college courses?
Going for her graduate degree for Physical Therapy, with the dreams of taking that Sports Medicine degree and applying it to a hopeful WNBA contract when she graduates.
The mysterious hardass Professor Bishop's class might just be the best thing she ever took -- even after Carina thought about transferring before stepping foot inside the class.
While Professor Maya Bishop is deemed to be feared, but very highly respected; there's always a reason why she is the way she is.
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- Part 1 of A Shot with....Universe
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25 Mar 2026
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Every Wednesday at 8:30 a.m., renowned criminal defense attorney Maya Bishop sends a box of the most expensive Italian chocolates in Seattle to the same woman who no longer wants her.
Every Wednesday at 8:30 a.m., Carina DeLuca, owner of Seattle’s most sophisticated chocolate boutique wraps those chocolates in velvet and gold, pretending she’s not invested in the silent war unfolding through handwritten notes and rejected deliveries.
Maya wins impossible cases for a living.
Carina builds perfection from cocoa and precision.One believes in control.
The other believes in stability.Neither believes in fireworks.
But when rituals break and power shifts, even gold-wrapped apologies start to taste like surrender.
This is one of my earliest stories one I wasn’t brave enough to post before.
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25 Mar 2026