An ending rewrite of If He Had Been With Me (just for my own sanity). Before reading: • In this story Finny DOES NOT DIE! • Pretend the first chapter of If He Had Been With Me doesn't exist • Pretend that Finny broke up with Sylvie and therefore never cheated on her • This is just for fun!! • For funsies, if you want to read while reading If He Had Been With Me, I start writing at around chapter 82 DISCLAIMER! ALL RIGHTS TO LAURA NOWLIN, THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR OF If He Had Been With Me! THESE ARE NOT ORIGINAL CHARACTERS, THIS IS JUST MY OWN REWRITTEN ENDING TO HER ORIGINAL STORY, WITH SOME IDEAS STILL PULLED FROM THE ORIGINAL STORY. PLEASE READ WITH THAT IN MIND, THANK YOU!! Now before you start, ask yourself... What If None of It Had Happened?;)

🏆2017 WATTY AWARD WINNER 🥇 Olivia Chastain's life was seemingly perfect until she was violently thrust into a nightmare that would haunt her for years to come. Kidnapped by a sadistic murderer, Olivia is subjected to atrocities she'll never be able to erase from her memory. When she's inexplicably released from his grip, horrifying flashbacks plague her every waking moment, but that's not the worst of what she's forced to contend with - the masked madman roams free, preying on other unsuspecting souls. As the days pass, the deviant's reign of terror grows more and more grotesque. As the only surviving victim, Olivia fears he'll find her and finish what he started. Will the authorities catch the elusive psychopath before he strikes again?

EPILOGUE WILL BE FREE STARTING JUNE 29TH, 2023! Diana wakes up in pain, tied to a bed and unable to escape. She's been trapped by a group of surgeons with a twisted passion and she's their next victim. ***** Diana Slater, a typical University student, wakes up in pain, tied to a bed and unable to see. After a mysterious figure, known only as Dr. Sweeney, nurses her back to health she finds out the truth. The Doctor has kidnapped her and given her a cat's eyes as part of a larger ploy to turn humans into collectibles. Now she's being trained by Ben, another patient, with the skin of a snake, on how to behave. Diana and Ben are forced to work together to try to escape the murderous doctors - until she discovers Ben might not be the victim he makes himself out to be. The only person Diana can trust is herself, and if she fails, her eyes won't give her another nine lives. [[Winner of the 2018 Fiction Awards for Best Horror Story]] [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston