Ghost of You
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Noah Mercer doesn't know how to live without her.
Not after the accident. Not after giving up everything he was, just to survive a world where she doesn't exist anymore.
Each day feels like a sentence. Grief clings to his skin like smoke - heavy, invisible, inescapable. The apartment is empty, his chest even more. And every memory of her drags him deeper into the space between guilt and longing.
But in the middle of one more night he doesn't expect to wake from, she's there. Watching. Reaching. Speaking. And maybe... saving him all over again.
A story about the weight of memory, the tenderness of a love that wasn't meant to last - and the moment when even the ghost of someone becomes enough to keep breathing.
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