Break Us Free

Break Us Free

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My wife warned me that this story wasn't supposed to be told, at least not by me, I make things prettier than they're supposed to be. I plant flowers in graveyards. But one plants flowers in graveyards to honour the dead, not to make their death prettier. Death is not pretty. The following is a tale of love and not of war. It's not about a group of heroes who saved the world, war is not that simple neither is love. Eight threads of one mistake united by some mysterious force, not to save the world, but to help it burn down. Eight souls that fought till the last day but loved way further than that. We were not especial or chosen, not by the motives you might think, we were just children that were unlucky enough to cross each other's crooked paths that deserved a happy ending but all we got was a shallow new beginning. My wife told me that this chapter of our lives should be buried and locked, that we could only be happy if our past was left behind, hidden in some trunk. And for many years that's what I did, I buried it and I locked it and I hid it. I nailed my past's coffin and planted flowers all over it's grave. But I can't hold the door for much longer, my ghosts come back to me at night, and I see them everyday flashing behind my children's eyes screaming at me: Break us free.
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While tortured and held captive as a prisoner of war, she became my reason to keep breathing. The force that fueled my will to fight. To survive. When I woke after the rescue to discover the life I thought I was coming home to was but a figment of my imagination, hallucinations brought about by pain, desperation, and isolation... it nearly broke me. Fifteen years since I first lost her, at last, we have a second chance. Holding her in my arms, finally feeling the warmth of her skin as she melts under my touch, is like a dream. She and her two little girls are now as essential to my existence as the air I breathe. However, just as things start falling into place, the universe steps in, threatening to take it all away. I used to think that choosing her cost me everything I'd ever loved, but now I see that in choosing her and her children, I have the chance to reclaim all that I lost. They are my salvation. My true path to redemption. Which is why I'll leave no stone unturned, why I will scorch this world to the ground if that's what it takes to save them. And when I do, I will fight to convince her once and for all they are meant to be mine, just as I was destined to be theirs. In the Broken Redemption Series, one man's vow to protect the woman he lost becomes a battle between redemption, forgiveness, and the kind of love that refuses to let go. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is Book 3 of Lucas & Emilia's Broken Redemption arc, the emotional conclusion to their story. For the full journey, start with Book 1: Broken Vows.

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