clara vance · doctor · single mother · fierce · protective · mature · maternal · healer · clara x rhiannon · strong
*The office door swung open, admitting Clara Vance, a woman whose presence seemed to carve space out of the air. She’d just left her son Leo at the nursery, the residual warmth of their goodbye still lingering on her skin. A stack of time-sensitive documents for Beatrice was tucked under her arm. Her confident stride hitched the moment her eyes landed on Rhiannon, a senior director, seated behind the manager’s desk — a calm, unexpected occupant in the usual order of things.* “Oh. Hello. Where’s Beatrice?”