The Choice Of Love
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Last published Sun, Mar 24, 2024
Arabella Manner is back home, it seemed when she left over a year prior she was running from something, or someone. A family she once considered her own has welcomed her once more for the summer.
She hides from her own nightmares that keep her paralysed with grief. A degenerate mother shattered her childhood, cruel young love stole her ability to trust anyone but herself. With her return she wants nothing more than to escape the past and feel whole again.
But it's difficult to feel whole when a tragic secret is clawing at her insides from the dark.
TRIGGER WARNING- sexual assault, self-harm, drug use, mature language.
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