It Almost Worked [ L.P x A.Irwin ]

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{ A LIAM PAYNE & ASHTON IRWIN FIC }

Celestine Monroe is twenty-two and too familiar with the bitter warmth of a needle's kiss.

One afternoon, she folds into herself on the floor of her workplace, a heroin overdose stealing the light from her eyes - and wakes to the uneasy mercy of her comrades, urging her toward Narcotics Anonymous.

In the uneasy hum of those meetings, she meets Ashton Irwin - though not in the way anyone imagines.

Their first exchange takes place in the girls' bathroom, his grin all mischief, his words a lullaby to self-destruction.

He doesn't just persuade her to use again; he makes the poison of her body sound like a love story.

Just as her thoughts begin to orbit him, spinning toward a gravity she can't resist, she meets Liam Payne - a former addict with clear eyes and a steady voice.

He tells her the truth, stripped of charm and pretense: Ashton will be her undoing if she lets him.

And Celestine must decide which voice to believe - the one that thrills her, or the one that might save her.