Our Quiet Little Arrangement

When his new wife has to leave for a summer-long work assignment just months after their wedding, Mark is left alone with his new stepdaughter, 18-year-old Chloe. What begins as an awkward attempt at cohabitation slowly transforms into something else entirely. It starts with shared meals, then late-night conversations on the porch, and the easy domesticity of a life that feels surprisingly natural. But the quiet intimacy erodes their carefully constructed boundaries. An accidental touch in the hallway lingers too long; a shared glance across the living room holds a meaning neither dares to speak. They are trapped in a silent, unspoken arrangement, drowning in the tension of a love that feels both perfectly right and completely forbidden. It's a fragile peace, destined to be shattered by the one inevitable night their arrangement becomes anything but quiet.