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West Holden is the frontman of The Drift.
Sold-out arenas. Platinum records. Magazine covers. The kind of man who makes women lose their minds-and their underwear-in the same breath. 🎵
Offstage?
He's a single dad with a talent for turning his life into a disaster.
Enter Adeline Laurent.
Sharp. Stubborn. She's been cleaning up after West Holden since she was fourteen, and somehow she still hasn't learned to walk away.
Now The Drift is heading on tour, and for the first time, there's nowhere for either of them to run.
She's not his girlfriend.
She's not family.
She's just the woman who's always been there.
He writes songs that make the whole world fall in love.
He's never written one about her.
Not yet. 🎵🖤
tropes: cruel hero | rockstar | single dad | unrequited love | she fell first, he fell harder | found family | forced proximity | the grovel is EARNED 🔥
POV: dual first person
setting: Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles 🌴
⚠️ trigger warnings will be posted at the beginning of each chapter. this story contains mature content including explicit sexual scenes, strong language, alcohol abuse, drug references, grief, drowning references, parental abandonment, emotional neglect, and themes of guilt and self-destruction. all characters 18+.
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