Haunting 4

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"We were both drowning. The difference was that when I reached for her hand, she reached back."

"He was drowning in the past, whilst she disappeared in the present."

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People always said your family name meant everything.

It determined who trusted you.
Who feared you.
Who hated you before they'd ever spoken a word to you.

Leah Daly knew that better than anyone.

For years she had lived in the shadow of her older sister's cruelty, carrying punishments for crimes she'd never committed. At home, she was invisible. At school, she was a target. Somewhere along the way, she'd stopped believing life could be anything more than surviving one day at a time.

Then she transferred to Tommen College.

Tadhg Lynch knew all about survival too.

Everyone saw the easy smile, the quick jokes, the talented hurler who seemed to have everything. Nobody saw the nightmares. The addictions. The desperate need to escape the memories that followed him everywhere he went.

When their paths collide, neither expects the other to matter.

But sometimes the people who save us are the ones carrying the same scars.

And sometimes the hardest battle isn't learning how to live.

It's believing you're worth staying alive for.

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Tadhg Lynch x Leah Daly
(full description in the preface!)