Leverage
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Last published Mon, Jun 21, 2021
Maybe ignorance is bliss...
The pouring rain washed away my tears and filled the silence around me, yet not being able to drown out the ringing in my ears from the gunshots.
I slid down the wall until I was sitting on the ground, too unmotivated to fight against the sleepiness that took over me.
As the dark began to consume me, I felt a familiar hand stroke my cheek and the comforting feeling of warm leather enveloping my shoulders.
"Why?" that was the last word I uttered before drifting off into a dreamless sleep.
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Antonella Guerrero is an aspiring young writer, but her mentor, who also happens to be her English professor, suggests she add adventure into her own life to inspire her writing and only then will her novel be considered complete and she'll get her passing grade. She wishes for nothing more than adventure, but when that adventure comes in the form of Ezra Cruz she gets more than she wished for.
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