maryarialane
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- Parts 23
When Adelia moves to Mystic Falls with her parents, she expects nothing more than the quiet life of a small town. Reserved, gentle, and far removed from the chaos of her old city, she wants only to disappear into the background, to finish school, and to carve out a place where she might finally belong.
But Mystic Falls is not an ordinary town. And nothing about her new life is ordinary once she meets the Salvatores.
Damon Salvatore is everything Adelia despises-arrogant, sharp-tongued, dangerous. Their first encounters are laced with disdain, her quiet defiance colliding with his merciless charm. She wants nothing to do with him, and he insists she is nothing but another fragile human, too soft to survive in a world built on secrets and blood.
Yet something about her unsettles him. Something about her silences he cannot ignore.
As weeks pass, irritation gives way to fascination, and fascination to something far deeper. For the first time in years, Damon feels the stirrings of a bond that frightens him more than he'd ever admit. Adelia is different-she doesn't worship him, doesn't fear him, and worst of all, she sees him. Truly sees him.
But love has never been simple for Damon. Katherine chose Stefan. Elena chose Stefan. And with every stolen glance, every unspoken word, the fear gnaws at him that Adelia will slip away too-that history will repeat itself, and she will choose someone else.
As darkness gathers in Mystic Falls-old enemies resurfacing, danger lurking at every corner-Adelia finds herself pulled deeper into a world she never asked to join. And Damon, torn between his instincts to protect her and his fear of destroying her, must face the one truth he has always denied:
That sometimes the greatest danger is not what lurks in the shadows, but what takes root in the heart.