If I Stay Here

"I would have burned this world to keep you safe."
Her breath hitched.
"And you were never really mine to protect," he finished.

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Alisa was never meant to survive the night she falls into the moonlight reflection. But the water does not claim her.

Instead, glowing spirits rise to meet her-five wandering souls made of light and memory, bound between worlds by regret and unfinished love. They become her guardians through a fractured world where reality bends and destiny listens.

They lead her to a world that looks like Earth-but feels wrong.

There, Alisa crosses paths with Matthew, a feared Commander trained to hunt the impossible. He should have seen her as a threat. Instead, he becomes her refuge-offering shelter inside a house guarded by weapons, silence, and a man who does not know how to love without protecting.

As Alisa hides the truth of her being and the magic woven into her fate, something slow and dangerous grows between them. Desire restrained by discipline. Trust built in stolen moments. A bond strong enough to bend worlds.

If I Stay Here is a dark, slow-burn romantic fantasy about lost souls, forbidden protection, and the kind of love that asks you to choose between freedom and the person who saved your life.

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