CountryRebelPrincess
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Sam Puckett has three rules: don't cry where anyone can see, don't need anything you can't carry, and never let them know where it hurts.
Freddie Benson has been quietly breaking all three since they were eleven.
A month after they end things in an elevator, they wake up in Venice after a night in Vegas with matching rings and no memory of the night before. It should be simple to undo. It isn't - because for the first time in her life, somebody's writing things down when she gets hurt, and somebody else is asking questions she's spent seventeen years not answering.
A story about a girl who was raised to expect the hit, a boy who was raised to be gentle, and the difference between being wanted and being kept.
Seddie. Hurt/comfort. Slow burn, faster mouths. Characters are deliberately OOC - they grew up. Happy ending, hard road.
⚠️ Content warnings: child abuse (past and on-page), domestic violence, alcoholism, drugging/non-consensual drug administration, brief non-graphic sexual content. No character death. HEA guaranteed.