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Michelle Pearce has always known one thing about her life, that every breath she takes is something she can never take for granted.
Living with cystic fibrosis, Michelle exists between limits: between strength and fragility, between hope and fear. Yet despite a body that often betrays her, she chooses to keep smiling. She refuses to be the reason for anyone's sadness especially not for her twin brother, Michael, who guards her like she could disappear at any moment.
But there is one thing she has never been allowed to have the freedom to return to the city she longs for: London.
Until one day, fate brings her face to face with someone she never planned for.
Benedict Clarke.
A painter who lives in a world of his own, filled with colors, canvases, and unfinished dreams. To Ben, life has never needed anyone to complete it. Until Michelle comes along, bringing something he cannot quite put into words... or onto a canvas.
Something that slowly begins to fill a space he never knew was empty.
Between the rain, a city full of memories, and time that seems to be slipping away...
they find something that might not last forever.
Love.
Because sometimes, the person we need the most...
is the one we cannot keep.