What The Sea Brought Me

What The Sea Brought Me

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The sea giveth and taketh away. This time, it gave him. Naked, bleeding, and covered in strange symbols, he washed ashore near Calliope's remote lighthouse - silent, feral, beautiful. She should have reported the incident, but something stopped her. Now he watches her with eyes too dark...too deep. He doesn't speak, but he knows her - what she fears, what she dreams of, how to touch her in ways nobody else has. And when the moon is high, she swears she can see something move beneath his skin. He wasn't sent to love her. He was sent to change her. Because the sea didn't give him. It sent him ahead.
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