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𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝟏𝟑
Book 1 in the Legacy of Tommen series
𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡
The boy everyone in Ballylagin knows.
Rugby's golden boy.
The fighter in The Den.
Cold. Calculating. Untouchable.
Damian Kavanaugh doesn't feel things the way the rest of us do.
At least, that's what I thought.
Until he starts noticing me.
He calls it protection.
I call it suffocating.
And somewhere between the bruises, the broken promises and the way he looks at me like I'm something he refuses to lose, I realise Damian Kavanaugh doesn't know how to love without holding on too tightly.
But when rugby starts slipping away from him, I'm forced to wonder-
If he loses the one thing that made him feel whole, will he lose himself?
Or will he finally learn that loving me means letting me choose him?
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𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐮-𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧
The girl who feels everything.
Too anxious.
Too soft.
Too determined to earn love from someone who never seems willing to give it.
Annika Liu-Wilkinson was never supposed to matter to me.
Then she started dancing in my sister's ballet studio.
And somehow, I started noticing everything.
Every nervous glance.
Every quiet apology.
Every time she made herself smaller for someone else's comfort.
She thinks I protect her.
Maybe I do.
But I also watch her.
Control her.
Need her far more than I know how to admit.
And when she tells me that being loved shouldn't feel like being watched, I realise I've spent my entire life learning how to hold on without ever learning when to let go.
Because I know how to want Annika.
I know how to keep her.
I just don't know if I know how to love her.