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Ashes & Orchids

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Reads 338
Votes 45
Parts 84
Time 16h 29m

Mature

Ashley never expected to see him again - not after five years of silence.

Not after the missed calls, the unanswered messages, and the night she told him she was pregnant.

But when her abusive father dies, Bo shows up for the funeral. Older. Quieter. Still heart-stoppingly familiar. And still not forgiven.

Ashley has a life now - a flower shop, a five-year-old son, and a body still fighting a secret illness she hasn't told anyone about. Especially not him.

Bo thought disappearing was the right thing to do after the release of his film, Make Happy. But guilt has a way of surviving, and so does love - even when it's buried under grief, shame, and years of not being brave enough to come home.

When their worlds collide again, everything rises to the surface: the past, the secrets, the heartbreak... and the heat neither of them ever put out.

This is a story of childhood friends torn apart by time, trying to stitch together the wreckage. A slow-burn, deeply emotional romance about what happens after the apology, after the tears - when someone who left you says:

"I'm not done."All Rights Reserved

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