The Light Within Shadows
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This is a short story submitted for Wattpad's Mystery Contest.
He thought of his talent as a curse. Aloof and fragmented, it was more bothersome than special. He tried to compress and bury it like a childhood memory but it only grew stronger, gaining strength within the shadows of his mind.
When his fiancee is kidnapped, he must race against time to rescue her.
Will the one thing that tormented him in the past be the one thing that saves the one woman he loves in the future?
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