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Bruised and Broken
BenitaADavid
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BenitaADavid
Ongoing, First published Aug 10, 2018
Mature
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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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Blind Promises

65 parts Complete Mature

A lonely girl from a small town in Oklahoma finds herself in the middle of Seattle, Washington. What she didn't know was fate was about to deal her a hand that she needed to help put all her demons back where they belonged, locked away for good. A war hardened soldier, blinded in an attack while doing a black ops mission, was sitting there with his friend at a movie night of all things when an angel walked into the room. What little vision he did have gave him the notion that an ethereal being had just graced his presence. Little did he know, she'd be stuck with him for the foreseeable future after an unexpected attack. At first she was drawn to his service dog, but then it wasn't long before she couldn't keep her mind off of him. Which was good because he had no plans of ever letting her go. Sight unseen, he'd decided she was the most beautiful thing he'd ever met. He knew he had issues she didn't deserve to have to handle. She knew she had a past that he wouldn't want to deal with. But fate had other plans for the two lovers, a blind promise. Can they work through their differences, their mental health challenges, and the dangerous situations that come their way?

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