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Second Chance
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shutopandkissme
Ongoing, First published Jul 27, 2025
Mature
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📖 Second Chance
Some wounds run deep. Some lives pause mid-sentence. And sometimes, redemption knocks quietly from across the hall.

Ethan Rayner wasn't looking to be saved. Trapped in the quiet wreckage of his past, he's just trying to make it through the day-until new neighbors move in across the hall. A guarded woman. A wide-eyed boy. A silence between them thick with unspoken battles.

In the flickering lights of a rundown apartment complex, three strangers cross paths in the most ordinary of places-and nothing remains ordinary after that.

This is a story about quiet bravery, soft beginnings, and the fragile, fierce hope that maybe-just maybe-broken doesn't mean beyond repair.
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Burn With Me

59 parts Complete Mature

Damien Anastasi and Hallie Scott Damien Anastasi is preparing to take over his family's company in just over a month and he just doesn't have any time for love. But as he watches his parents and his sister Lia, happy with the love of their lives, a sudden feeling of envy washes through him. He wants what they have. Someone to come home to. Someone to call home. But he hasn't met a woman who ignites the fire inside him and makes him burn with need and want. Then one night, as he stepped out into the cold night, he sees a woman rummaging through the garbage and something inside of him lit up like fireworks. His fire was ignited, and made him burn with need and want. Hallie Scott has a dark past. One she's running from, but with a 2 year old and a 1 year old in tow, it gets harder and harder for her to keep running. But she knows she has to keep going or he'd find her, and she just can't let that happen. Then one night, as she was rummaging through the garbage, she looks up and a pair of smokey eyes collided with hers. Can the fire burning between them save them from a disaster waiting just around the corner? Or will it be the fire that burns their dreams and the life they've built around them? Find out in Burn With Me. Coming this 2018

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