These Cruel Tethers
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Shanna has always loved Naomi Lance. Beautiful, bold. Unreachable, despite their childhood friendship. But one day, Naomi collapses out of the blue. It turns out she's sick--Very. But this leads to Shanna reforming her bond with her old friends. And as her beauty and strength is slowly stolen, they become closer and closer. But then something happens that before Shanna never would've considered bad. Naomi is getting better. She knows it's twisted, but she fears that her friend's recovery will result in her being left behind once more. And that thought has become unbearable.
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