Born to die
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Last published Tue, Apr 14, 2026
DISCLAIMER- I do not have rights over the Shelby characters or the rest of the characters who appear in the Peaky Blinders, but I do have rights over Katherine Monet as well as the rest of the characters who don't appear in the Peaky Blinders series that I have made up.
You were a posh and he was just some gangster who acted like an animal. You both were never meant to be together due to the fact that you both come from opposite ends of the wealth scale. Even though you couldn't change him for the way he acted, you wanted to try.
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