Heart's Echo
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Last published Fri, Nov 24, 2023
Aalix Drake pulled me unconscious from a river on the worst night of my life. The first thing I noticed that night, even before the pain from my recent injuries, was the torment in the depths of his haunting blue eyes. For the first time in my life, I came face-to-face with someone whose past traumas rivaled my own.
I couldn't have known then that the darkness in our pasts overlapped or how seemingly insurmountable the overlap would reveal itself to be.
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