A World Apart
CheyaraWrites58
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  • Reads 22,851
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  • Parts 31
  • Time 4h 13m
CheyaraWrites58
Complete, First published Nov 23, 2018
Mature
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Being the daughter of a wealthy businessman has had plenty of perks for Charisma Isles. Having grown up in a stable home with the best of everything that money could buy, she has all that she could ever want, or so she thinks.

When a homeless stranger comes to her rescue after she is attacked one night on the streets of New York, she is shocked by the huge difference in their circumstances.

After going their separate ways, she is saddened by the idea that she may never see him again. But when their paths cross sooner than she ever thought possible, she finds herself further drawn to the tortured man who is so far from everything that she has always known. 

Stepping into his world teaches her many things, but the biggest lesson of all comes from the realisation that her materialistic lifestyle was missing more than she ever realised, and that the new bond she has with Jake Hardy is the most precious thing she could never buy.
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A World No Longer Heliocentric

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Bella is the girl who lost everything to cancer, and her world suddenly revolves around her sickness. She lost her friends, her mother, her confidence. Her life became a series of doctor visits, stories in her head, and hours of making up for the work she misses in school. She never expects anything out of herself or life because she doesn't want to get her hopes up. Everything changes when she gets partnered up for a physics project with Liam. Liam is the opposite of Bella, always looking at the future and keeping his hopes high. But his bipolar mother keeps him back, always derailing his life. Taking care of his mom without his dad, he always buried everything he felt. But when he gets partnered with his childhood crush for a physics project, Bella, his perspective with his mother and himself changes. They challenge each other, impacting their own mindsets and decisions, feelings for each other kindling. When Bella learns the truth of her mother leaving and when she gets to the lowest point in her life, his faith in her strength leads her to believe there's a world that doesn't revolve around her. Bella forces Liam to discover his identity without his mother's life in his hands, uncovering a vulnerable side of him. And to think that their lives together started with a physics project.

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