Lore doesn't think very much of her existence. She is content to waste her days drinking, popping pills, and starting fistfights. She's good at suppressing emotions, her favorite pastime, but one emotion in particular always seems to get the better of her.
Love. And not just love for one person but three.
Lore finds herself torn between her self destructive nature and her need to be with her three lovers, Akira, Jamie, and Castle, but it's not that simple. None of them are that simple.
Between Akira's anger management, Castle's passiveness, and Jamie's short term memory, the four of them are a royal mess.
This is the story of four young prodigies who fight between their mental health and their need to be together, as the institute they work for is slowly rethinking their grant money. A time must come for everyone to get it together but with the way things are, it may be impossible.
(This story is about an established polyamory relationship between two men and two women. It has a lot to do with mental health, love, and trauma, but I'll do my best to keep it light-hearted. It is about affection, friendship, healing, and what it's like to want to be better for the people you love. Steam, as always. Slow updates since this is for fun, go read Mafia Bride and Grooms if you want dummy thick plot lines :)
"If you love me, you won't leave me."
Jessie has believed those words from her boyfriend, Josh, since senior year of high school. She loves him and doesn't want to leave him. Not even when he shouts at her and hits her. Jessie's best friend, Kolleen, can't stand seeing her in that situation.
With a bit of convincing - and the worst beating she'd ever received - Jessie agrees to move into an apartment with Kolleen. But not long after, Jessie is scared the worst of her nightmares will soon become a reality. Josh goes missing, and suddenly Jessie would swear she's being followed. One night changes everything, and one person soon changes Jessie's outlook.
A responding officer from that fateful night begins to seek her out, at first claiming it's part of his job. As she spends time with her new friend outside of his job, she starts realizing that her feelings are evolving. After being abused for over a year, Jessie is terrified she's falling in love. What's even more terrifying is that he might be, too.
She isn't ready for love. Not yet. She makes up her mind that if he is falling, and if he does love her, he'll wait for her to be ready, and if she loves him, she won't let herself hurt him.
Can the words that used to cage her in really be the key to her freedom?
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