Espresso
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  • Reads 101
  • Votes 16
  • Parts 4
  • Time 28m
Ongoing, First published Dec 31, 2015
Louise Walters is stuck between two worlds. One with her birth father, whom she hasn't met throughout her seventeen year life. And the other with her mother, step-dad, and step-brother, which doesn't seem so promising after the four step-dads that came before her mother, Tracey's, new addiction. Harvey.

Dean Abrams leads a simple life, or that's what he likes to call it. Working at his father's coffee shop down the street, Dean hasn't ever known a life outside of Cherry Lane. Sure, he works a five day week at almost minimum wage, but his job was practically handed to him a year ago on his sixteenth birthday.

But when their two lives collides, a cliché romance isn't born from "love at first sight", or whatever that's supposed to mean. With more arguments than "I love you"s, and an addiction to coffee, Louise and Dean don't hit it off, until...
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