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The Air He Breathes

Brittainy C. Cherry

Elements #1

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Two broken, grieving souls warned to stay apart discover the only person who understands their wreckage is each other.

Content Warnings
griefdeath of loved one

Description

I was warned about Tristan Cole.“Stay away from him,” people said.“He’s cruel.”“He’s cold.”“He’s damaged.”It’s easy to judge a man because of his past. To look at Tristan and see a monster.But I couldn’t do that. I had to accept the wreckage that lived inside of him because it also lived inside of me.We were both empty.We were both looking for something else. Something more.We both wanted to put together the shattered pieces of our yesterdays.Then perhaps we could finally remember how to breathe.

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