Doodle |Changbin x OC Fanfic|

[BOOK TWO IN THE ORBITING HEARTS SERIES] Note: please make sure you've ready Waiting for Us and Blueprints BEFORE this one. Bethanie "Beth" Anders has never been good at asking for more. A veteran-turned-paper-pusher at the VA, she spends her days buried in bureaucracy and her nights tiptoeing around a marriage quietly rotting from the inside out. She's surviving. Until a call shatters everything: her best friend Alex-now private security for a global K-pop group-has been assaulted overseas. She's in critical condition. And she needs Beth. Now. Beth leaves behind the wreckage of her old life with nothing but her daughter, a duffel bag, and a court order. In Korea, she finds not only Alex, but a new orbit-one pulsing with lights, sound, and strangers who don't know her history. Among them is Seo Changbin: confident, talented, full of warmth, and completely disarmed by the quiet woman who doesn't recognize his fame or flinch from his gaze. What begins with silence becomes something else-doodles passed back and forth, confessions whispered in kitchens at midnight. Beth is older. Guarded. Wounded. Changbin should know better. But some people arrive in your life like second chances disguised as strangers. As Alex fights to heal, Beth must decide if she's still just surviving-or finally ready to live.