lvingskye
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- Parts 19
THE POLAROID IN MY POCKET
"I'M NOT THE GIRL IN THE PHOTO ANYMORE, MALACHI. SHE DIED IN LONDON."
"THEN LET ME MEET THE GIRL WHO CAME BACK. BECAUSE I'VE BEEN HOLDING ONTO THIS FOR TEN YEARS."
FREYA SKYE JONES was eight years old when she vanished. no goodbye, no letters, no explanation-just a house left empty and a childhood best friend left with a million unanswered questions. but the move to the uk wasn't the fairytale her parents promised. instead, it was a descent into a nightmare that left her heart scarred and her voice silenced. now, freya is back in los angeles, but she isn't the sun-kissed girl who left. she's a ghost in a volleyball jersey, a captain who leads in whispers, and a girl who flinches whenever the world gets too loud.
MALACHI DANIEL BARTON is the king of the ice. as the captain of the hockey team, he has the perfect life, the perfect reputation, and the perfect girlfriend in ARIANNA GREENBLATT. he spent a decade trying to forget the girl who abandoned him, but the second freya skye walks back into the halls of their high school, his carefully built world starts to crack.
she's guarded. she's broken. and she's terrified of the very boy who used to be her safe haven.
while malachi tries to bridge the ten-year gap between them, freya is just trying to survive the echoes of her past. with a faded polaroid tucked in her pocket and a brother, WALKER SCOBELL, who will do anything to keep her safe, freya has to decide if she's ready to be seen again.
in a world of ice hockey vs. volleyball, old loyalties vs. new scars, and the crushing weight of a slow burn that refuses to die, malachi and freya must figure out if some things are better left in the past-or if the girl in the photo is still worth fighting for.
"SOME MEMORIES ARE TOO HEAVY TO CARRY ALONE. LUCKILY, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN GOOD AT LIFTING THE WEIGHT."
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