Goodbye, Butterfly
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Complete Sat, Sep 17, 20161h 29m
Reese London has never lived the perfect life. Not a single day has gone by since that one fateful day that changed everything. Now she is without hope and without cause, moving through life on a wind that most everyone follow; drifting through life with no purpose. She has stuck it out until her last year of college. Fighting against the daily suffering she faces. The pain doesn't come without reaction though. Reese has a secret she doesn't want anyone to know about her, fearing that she will be sent away and ripped from her life to start all over again. When Killian Lozier Comes into her life, though, she finds that he can slip through every barrier she puts up. She is startled and confused by him yet, he reaches out to her when all hope still seemed to be lost. Little by little, Reese reveals things to him. Things that would otherwise ruin her life.
The only question that stands in her way yet is this:
Can she even trust him?
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