Out Of The Shadows
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Last published Fri, Jul 10, 2015
What happens when you have no one you can turn to? Where do you go? Your happy place? She just so happened to be there at the wrong time, or maybe the right time? Lilly is at her favorite place, the beach, one night because she can't seem to fall asleep with all of her racing thoughts, but what she doesn't know is that she's trespassing , as it rains she is sucked into her dark thoughts, back into the shadows of her mind. As she cries away all of the images in her head,a light tap on her shoulder, and a bright light in her face, Officer Weller in her presence, she doesn't know what to think, other than he's stunning, and she's lost for words, and for once her shadowed thoughts are gone.
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