Bruised and Broken
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It is Hannah's second chance at first love!
It is Matthew's first chance at true love!
She couldn't take it anymore. The horror and trauma was getting too much and she had to run away.
So she ran, not really having a place to go to, only to be taken into care by an acquaintance she thought she'd put behind her past.
Matthew led a pretty mechanical life. The last thing he expected was to run into the woman who'd kinda had a crush on him a long time back and had got rejected by him in haste, covered in bruises and all alone.
When he offers to help her in the spur of the moment things start taking a turn. When he finds himself drawn to her, Hannah's mysterious bruises and scars leaves him craving for answers to a million questions.
What actually happened to her? Why was she stranded all alone with marks all over her body? What was she so scared of all the time? What made her so fragile and closed in on herself?
Would she ever let him in? Feel the same way he feels about her?
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