The Past Dressed in Black
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Last published Tue, May 10, 2022
Our Dave Black is your typical rich and snobby man.
And, Rose Taylor. Her name doing enough justice to her beauty but underneath she was covering her thorns. Thorns that pricks her.
Have you ever been to a beach?
Well, I've been to...
The waves when felt like love, hitting the scorching feet in flames of our gloomy past.
So will love ever hit their scorching feet from the past that still haunts them?
What unfolding will their story bring when from visiting their friends wedding they end up being forced to marry?
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