A Romantic Gesture

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Parts 8
Time 34m

Reads 128
Votes 17
Parts 8
Time 34m

Mature

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"I always said I'd find you, didn't I?" He's keeping his voice light and airy, but I can detect the venom beneath his false smile. I need to run.

"Now now, you don't have to be scared of me," he chides softly, taking a step towards me that turns my very blood to ice. I can feel my heartbeat quickening, the familiar terror he has instilled in me returning after two years. I can't speak. My whole body is frozen, muscles tensed beneath my skin, my breathing shallow and terrified. His hand closes around my wrist, and for the first time since he showed up again, his megawatt smile falters.

"We have a lot to talk about."
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Hanna Johnson has been running from her past for the last two and a half years. She's still licking the wounds of her previous life and trying to assemble a new one when she shows up to her apartment late one night to find it filled with ominous red roses. A note left at the scene reveals that someone from her past has found her, despite her best efforts to change her whole identity. Because of this, Hanna is sent down a dark path to escape her previous life, and the dangerous people from it, once again.All Rights Reserved

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