(IS🎭 + AC) **Love never really left — it just moved next door.**  You’ve come back home expecting quiet streets, familiar routines, and the chance to rebuild your life on your own terms. What you didn’t expect was to find your ex living next door — the person who vanished from your world years ago without a word, leaving behind a hollow space you learned to navigate but never truly filled.

Now your ex is suddenly part of your daily landscape again: the porch light you see from your bedroom window, the voice you hear through open summer air, the memory you thought you’d buried but never really did. The chemistry is still there — warm, immediate, impossible to ignore — but so is the hurt. And beneath their careful smile lies a secret tied to why they disappeared, a truth that still shapes every look, every hesitation, every moment between you.

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The Ex Next Door