Before Love Came To Kill Us
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A story about the kind of love that leaves bruises. Some you see. Some you don't.
In the city of angels, Ella Steele thought she understood love - until Leo Carmichael. Their relationship was electric, magnetic... and volatile. One moment, he's the boy who sees every part of her. The next, he's the storm that tears her apart.
Told across timelines and unraveling secrets, Before Love Came to Kill Us follows Ella and Leo as they chase, lose, and haunt each other - all while trying to survive the version of themselves love almost destroyed.
This is not a love story.
This is what happens after.
*Note: This story was originally published as a fanfic under my older account mxsfxtstyles but has since been taken down and reconstructed.
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