Is two broken souls trying to heal and complete each other called love?
"I Myra Paige Delany, take you, Joshua Hayes Cassidy, to be my husband, my better half and I promise to love you and hold you for the rest of my life."
"I Joshua Hayes Cassidy, take you Myra Paige Delany, to be my wife and I affirm to love you and cherish you until death do us apart."
The only thing a true and successful marriage requires is falling in love with each other. Joshua and Myra, both loved and believed the idea of falling in love and getting married with their loved ones, but not with each other.
Four years after Myra Delany lost Vaughn Lorenzo, the love of her life, she married Joshua Cassidy- Vaughn's best friend.
Joshua and Myra strike a deal of a fake arranged marriage to satiate their parents' expectations to move on from their pasts and also to live their lives in their own accord without anybody's hindrance.
But what happens when Joshua and Myra want to help each other to heal from their pasts together and comfort each other by falling in love, but Joshua's treacherous past invades their love bubble? Is Joshua's past allied with Myra's?
"It's hard you know, to walk away from someone who you are madly in love with." Joshua mumbled uncomfortably. "I can't really take it when you push me away."
"I never intended to push you away, but I have to , because I don't have the strength to fall in love again and hurt myself ." I replied, reciprocating the same intensity, Joshua's eyes held.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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