"Even If It Hurts" DarylDixonXReader!
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A dark, aching, slow-burn survival tale about two people who've known nothing but pain, and somehow find each other right as the world falls apart
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A dark romance set at the end of the world.
She grew up with scars that never got the chance to heal - a girl forgotten by her mother and broken by her father, with only silence and survival left to cling to. He was raised in the wreckage of violence, chained to a brother who taught him how to fight but never how to feel. They lived minutes apart in the quiet woods of Georgia, always orbiting, never touching - until the end of the world forced them into the same shadow.
Daryl Dixon is used to being invisible. He prefers it that way. But when he sees her - a girl with dirt on her knees and a scream hidden behind her eyes - something ancient in him stirs. Something violent. Something his.
Y/N doesn't trust anyone. She doesn't get close. Not when it's safer to disappear. But there's something about the man with the crossbow and the storm in his eyes - the way he doesn't flinch when she reaches for her knife. The way he looks at her like he's already bleeding.
Together, they navigate a world unraveling - not just with the dead rising, but with the ghosts they've carried their whole lives. Their connection is quiet at first. A glance. A shared silence. But beneath it simmers something far more dangerous than walkers - obsession, dependency, and the desperate ache to belong to someone, even if it's the last thing they should want.
This is not a love story. It's a survival story tangled in the wreckage of a love that never had the chance to grow clean.
But they'll take it.
Even if it hurts.
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