hard to love
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Last published Sun, Nov 9, 2025
A few dreams are dreamt together.
A few moments are destined to become hurtful memories.
A few promises are meant to be kept.
A few goodbyes should have never been said.
Four years ago, Ira confessed her love to her childhood best friend. Jace. However, he broke her heart, leaving her a scattered mess of regret, love, and loss when he left Emberhill without another word to her.
Now, he's back.
But Ira has moved on and created a peaceful, cozy life for herself, She's made peace with her mistake and learned her lesson well. But with Jace's return, Ira finds her life crumbling down again.
Havoc follows Jace into Ira's life, threatening to take away everything that she loves and all that matters to her. even Jace cannot stop the torment that he has unwittingly brought upon Ira.
How will Ira save herself now? How will she escape the that the person she once loved pushed her into?
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[REKINDLING LOVE TROPE] Hopeless romantic and poet Nora Murphy has just gotten out of a terrible relationship. All she wants to do is fix her writer's block and move on with her life. To her luck, the first step to moving on starts ten years in the past, when she has to go to her ten year high school reunion. Luca Brince is content with his teaching job as psychology professor, and meaningless one night stands. After seeing his parents marriage fall apart, he doesn't think there's any point to it. Yet he can't seem to shake his friends and family off his back to settle down. She said she'd never go back to the man who broke her heart ten years ago, but when they get locked in the janitors closet together at their 10 year high school reunion, they strike up a deal. Nora will be Luca's date to a wedding to get his friends off his back about settling down, and Luca will let her pick his brain about the psychology behind love for her new book. She wanted a fresh start, but is her fresh start with her ex high school sweetheart? Quote from the book: "He looked nothing short of beautiful, his features sharp and strong-willed, but when he broke out into a grin his features softened into feminine beauty. Two completely opposite sides of a sword, yet both struck me somewhere in the same place that hadn't forgotten about him all these years." ***still undergoing edits!!!*** ***trigger warning: domestic violence, strong language, sexual contents***
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