When I Stay
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MatureComplete Fri, Dec 24, 20216h 30m
(Sequel to Before You Leave)
(Before You Leave #2)
After betraying her boyfriend, JJ Ashton is lost. Gideon Andrews is broken. He is stuck between coming back for the girl he loves, or staying away.
JJ regrets everything she had ever done before him. After Gideon, nothing is left for her. Gideon was her world, her light in the darkness. She had never known love until him. But now he has gone and is never coming back.
But she has Alexei. The infuriating boy who started it all. Will she find that her life was meant to be with his, Gideon's, or no body's at all?
Will these two make their way back to each other or find their paths intertwined in other souls?
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