One Way Or Another
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MatureOngoing<5 mins
Last published Sat, Jul 11, 2026
Summer is a sweet, gentle, and thoughtful teacher. There is nothing she values more than kindness and respect, which contrast strongly with the second shadow following her everywhere she goes. While she tries her best to ignore it and go on about her life, helping the children in her class, he is always lurking somewhere.
He is the shadow haunting her life. Concealing himself behind a sleek, black shell, he withholds the deepest parts of himself in fear of scaring her away.
She runs. He chases.
He doesn't understand it, but he wants her and he is willing to bend every rule he was ever loyal to just to infiltrate his way into her life and hopefully
Kayden is a disciplined and cold man. Leader of a biker gang, he needs control and organization to thrive. He never felt like he needed more than what he already had and yet a meeting he makes through his sister might just alter his mind.
But is the story really this easy?
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