The thoughts and memories of the salted love that one receives when all she ever wanted was just love, care, support, and unconditional love that just endlessly feel safe and warm. Where the other individual gives this manipulative, unthinkable love that is wounded, a sour love that fills the void with darkness and open the wound with nothing but hate, anger, pain, and tears that flow endlessly.
A unthinkable love where the individual that can hate him with so much anger and pain, and yet still love him with all her heart, even if he comes back and hurts her again. All she does is forgive him endless times even though he's ruining her emotionally, mentally, physically, and psychologically.
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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