Between One Breath and the Next - Every Step Closer Changes the Rules

De Laura Bellini
Ouça com Sir Michael Caine™ e mais de 1.000 vozes
Duração6h 28m

Sobre este audiolivro

He knows how to listen to her every breath. But will he learn to respect her no? Thirty-year-old Ada Witek has spent years fighting for the right to create art on her own terms. After leaving a dance company in Warsaw, she arrives in Kraków determined to build an independent future. Her new project is an intimate contemporary dance performance about two people learning to choose each other without surrendering themselves. The last thing she needs is a man who challenges her carefully constructed plans. Then she meets Jakub Serafin. At thirty-four, Jakub is a gifted composer who believes the most powerful emotions live in the spaces between musical notes. He doesn't want his music simply to accompany Ada's choreography. He wants movement and sound to respond to each other, creating something neither of them could achieve alone. Their collaboration begins with disagreements. Ada demands clear boundaries. Jakub questions established arrangements. Neither is accustomed to backing down, and both are determined to protect the integrity of their work. But somewhere between the rehearsals, the arguments, and the quiet moments beside an old piano, something changes. Professional respect becomes fascination. Fascination becomes desire. And desire becomes a connection neither expected to find. Against the atmospheric backdrop of Kraków's rain-soaked streets, candlelit cafés, and an aging ballroom, Ada discovers a man who remembers her smallest confessions and sees the dreams she's afraid to pursue. Jakub finds a woman whose independence challenges everything he believes about creativity, control, and commitment. Their stolen kisses, intimate conversations, and evenings together begin to transform a professional partnership into a relationship that feels unexpectedly real. For Ada, falling in love is both exhilarating and frightening. She wants tenderness, passion, and companionship, but she refuses to abandon her ambition of opening a dance studio where ordinary people can discover the freedom of movement. For Jakub, loving her means confronting the consequences of a lifetime spent putting artistic achievement first. Then a secret threatens everything they have built. During an early rehearsal, an accidental recording captures Ada's private breathing and movement. She explicitly refuses permission for the material to be used. Jakub, however, hears something extraordinary in those sounds. And when artistic ambition begins to outweigh a boundary that should never have been questioned, their relationship faces a devastating test. Can love survive when the person who understands you most deeply becomes the person who breaks your trust? As their performance approaches its premiere and financial pressures mount, Ada must protect her artistic future without allowing fear to dictate her heart. Jakub must discover whether creating something beautiful is worth the cost of betraying the person who inspired it. Between One Breath and the Next is a passionate, emotionally layered contemporary romance about attraction, ambition, vulnerability, consent, and the difficult choices that make genuine intimacy possible. Because sometimes the most important step toward another person is learning when to stop. This publication was prepared using tools that support the creative process, including artificial intelligence solutions. The final concept, structure and editing are the responsibility of the author.

Detalhes do audiolivro

GêneroRomance
Duração6 h 28 min
Narrado porOuça com mais de 1.000 vozes
FormatoeBook com áudio
Data de publicação9 de nov. de 2026
IdiomaInglês

Sumário

1INTRO
2Chapter 1 - The Terms of Closeness
3Chapter 2 - Room for Two
4Chapter 3 - When the Music Fails
5Chapter 4 - What We Don't Write in the Score
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6Chapter 5 - The Right to Say No
7Chapter 6 - One Step Closer
8Chapter 7 - Sounds I Never Gave Away
9Chapter 8 - On the Other Side of the Music
10Chapter 9 - A Risk Written in Silence
11Chapter 10 - More Than Just Thoughts
12Chapter 11 - A Morning Without Armor
13Chapter 12 - A Stranger's Voice in My Silence
14Chapter 13 - The Price of Other People's Expectations
15Chapter 14 - The Truth That Isn't Enough
16Chapter 15 - Everything He Never Told Me
17Chapter 16 - The Distance I Need
18Chapter 17 - A Step of My Own
19Chapter 18 - Music Without My Voice
20Chapter 19 - What Remains After the Silence
21Chapter 20 - Between One Breath and the Next
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