Clara Couto has always known what it was like to live between extremes: the violent home and stolen childhood in Brazil left deep scars on her soul. When she finally decides to move to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of becoming a model, she seeks not only success but a new chance to rediscover herself.
In a world of glitter and masks, she meets Chris Evans, an actor whose kindness and maturity become an unexpected refuge for her traumas. The relationship between them, marked by a 13-year age difference, quickly turns into a tangle of complex emotions: Clara sees in him the father figure she never had, but she also can't ignore the growing romantic attraction.
However, love and healing are never easy. Media speculation, past hurts, and Clara's own insecurities threaten to pull them apart. Between the weight of her traumas and the desire for a better future, Clara will have to confront not only the world around her but also the ghosts that live within her.
Will she be able to break free from the chains of her past to finally find the love and peace she so desperately seeks?
When a tragedy devastates her family a young Lily Winters has to move to a new school in a new city in a new country thousands of miles from home.
There she meets Chris, an older boy in her brothers grade. The two become fast friends, Chris being a light in the darkness that was Lily's life. Years later in their adult life the two are just as close as they always have been.
But Chris is keeping a secret from Lily. Will he ever work up the courage to tell her or will he live in his own misery for the rest of his life?
Disclaimer:
I do not own Chris, any of his family members or real life friends mentioned in this story. The only characters I own are my OC. This is a work of fiction.
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TW:this story is 18+ and will contain:
Strong language
Smut
Alcohol use
Controlling behaviour
Mentions of death
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