Alba
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  • Reads 482
  • Votes 24
  • Parts 2
  • Time 21m
Ongoing, First published Nov 12, 2014
"Look, I have to call someone. I'm sorry, I know you don't want me to but there's no other choice - you're weak and - "

"No!" She interjected, looking up at me now. Her eyes were bright and watery with tears. Brown, they were. Her eyes were brown. A chocolate chestnut colour, just like her hair. "Y-you don’t understand, you can't!"
 
"Why?" I repeated, for what felt like the tenth time. 

"Because they're coming." 

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When Alba walks in to Rick's life, he doesn't have a choice but to help her. The more he finds out, the more danger his life is in. It is a matter of life or death: now that he is in involved, there is no going back. 
But Alba is hiding something. Something that could not only cost them both of their lives, but anybody else they are in direct contact with. And without Alba's secret, nothing else can save them.
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