มณีริน/ ศศิชา/ ไอศิกา/ Sazaki Aiko
A fresh graduate. A gap year adventure. And a wild lesson she never expected to learn.
Nuna just graduated and decided to spend her gap year traveling solo to find herself. But in the lush, untamed mountains of Northern Thailand, she discovers far more than she bargained for.
Joining a volunteer program at an elephant sanctuary, Nuna finds herself working side-by-side with Khiri, a rugged elephant handler as silent as the forest and as formidable as the peaks surrounding them. His body is a map of scars and hardened muscle—a man carved from the very earth itself.
Under the sweltering jungle heat, Khiri begins to teach her the ancient "way of the elephant." But as the nights grow long and the air thickens with tension, the lessons shift. Nuna isn’t just learning how to handle giants; she’s being trained by a master on how to move, how to surrender, and how to ride the waves of a passion as primal as the wilderness.
She came to find herself... but she might just lose her breath in his arms.
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