Against the odds
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MatureOngoing5m
Last published Wed, Nov 5, 2025
"I tried to warn you Ms.Lopez." His soft breath ghosted across my ear as a shiver shot through me.
"I always win."
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You can never truly escape the past. Your brain just makes it seem as such.
Gazella Lopez is a broken girl and has been since the day she watched her mothers life bleed from her eyes. Now she does everything in her power to clean up the world in the only way she knows how. Eliminating the trash that pollutes it.
Liam Stoll, a harsh man who rules the city with an iron fist. He's never not gotten his way. A devastatingly handsome man who has the world itself wrapped around his finger. The embodiment of power. Crossing him means death.
So, what will happen when Gazella crosses him in a way she can't undo? Will she be able to escape him while protecting everything she holds dear? Or will she suffer through losing the only person she's been able to love since her mother?
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