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If It Had Ever Been Enough

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Reads 10,342
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Parts 94
Time 7h 48m

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Katherine and Cole find each other before either understands what they're carrying.

Katherine believes she has found her soulmate and builds her life around that certainty. Cole struggles to name what he feels or what he's capable of giving.

Neither recognizes how deeply the past is shaping their choices. By the time betrayal arrives, the foundation they trusted begins to fracture.

Told through alternating timelines and perspectives, If It Had Ever Been Enough explores love shaped by unresolved trauma and what happens when devotion turns into something harder to survive.

Not everything that feels like love is.All Rights Reserved

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