51 parts Complete MatureWhen Ryle Kincaid was left in the dust five years ago, he never knew he could be loved again.
He turned on himself, all his hate and anger driving him to isolate his heart from even the idea of love, or wanting.
Then he met Alba DeTamble.
A strong, and kind, dark haired beauty.
Alba brings her golden light into his life, and helps him forgive, and love, and cherish himself.
She holds him when he wants nothing more than to run and hide. She loves him, more than he could ever have imagined being loved.
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"If my daughter," he starts carefully his hand clenching and unclenching, "if she came to me and told me that her husband hit her. I'd never let her go back to him."
"Not even if she told you he was sick," I retort, "and willing to go through all the treatment in the world to fix himself if it meant he could love her without hurting her? What if he'd become a better man?"
My thoughts are reeling and my heart is racing.
"He's not sick!" Ryle's voice drops, and my heart jumps in my chest. "He's just scum."
'We both know we're not talking about a hypothetical person anymore.'
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"Are you afraid of me?" He laughs a dry and brittle laugh.
"Deathly afraid." I confess, and it makes him shudder.
"You're falling deep into a dark and lonely hole, and you have a clear way out. Yet you won't even lift a finger to help yourself. You're destroying the man I love, isolating him. You're leaving me behind with every breath, and it makes me so scared."
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"True love, it begins and ends with us."
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A romantic and whimsical love story between Ryle of 'It Ends With Us' and Alba of 'Time Traveler's Wife'.
*Need to edit the cringe out of this story but don't have the time. Enjoy.*
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