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"You don't get to tell me who I am, who I'm supposed to be! I've lived my whole fucking life knowing I was different, knowing that I'm the person to hide in the corner when shit gets scary. But at least I know who I am. I'm not gonna be just some replacement for her because of your stupidity."
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Louella Cyrus has always been quiet, unnoticeable to everyone in the room, and that's how she likes it. Until a call from an unknown number from someone claiming to be her grandfather leaves her with a choice: Travel to America to meet him, or continue to live her life watching her mother destroy herself to make a life for them. Going against her mother's pleas, she excepts the caller's offer, packing everything she owns into a small suitcase and heads for New York City dragging her mother and sister along. What she didn't know about this exchange was her grandfather's true intentions, or who was watching her from the other side of the peir.
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Cold, powerful, dangerous. Everything James Barnes was known for. Everyone in New York either knew him, or knew of him and crimes. Most have never seen his face, only heard the quiet whispers of what he was capable of. Never married, never stayed long enough to even learn the names of his conquests. That's how he liked it, and in his mind romance was never an option. To him, having a partner would just get in the way of his work, or put the woman in danger just for being associated with him. That is until that bright, bubbly girl walked past him at the peir. The only one he wanted beside him was her.... and he'd do everything to make sure of that.