Love and Learn
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MatureComplete Mon, Jul 15, 20241h 46m
Jackson loves women, that's all there is.
Each one holds so many valuable lessons to learn and secrets to discover, once you crack her open and understand her.
Ella... Ella is one lesson he can't seem to learn. Or unlearn.
They're so perfect together, but how does it all turn to betrayal and why is it confusing who betrayed whom?
And when they run into each other, years later, and find they still fit like pieces of the proverbial jigsaw puzzle, what will happen with the betrayal then?
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