Strings Attached
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- Parts 9
Ongoing1h 38m
Last published Tue, Jun 16, 2026
Ellie was always independent. She did things her own way, found her own people, worked her way through them all when she had her evenings away from reality. There was never anything that made them anything other than a one night stand.
Apart from one. One blonde, who lingered in her mind, no matter how hard she tried to rid her.
But secrets unravel, the more you try to quieten them, and reality has it's way to work itself out, but in the end, so do feelings. That hits Ellie the hard way.
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