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Shattered Lines

Author: Favor V April
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Selina’s POV

I thought the night had swallowed him whole, that maybe the storm I’d unleashed had driven him so far into the darkness I’d never have to see the wreckage in his eyes again—but I was wrong, because when the knock came at the door, soft but heavy, like it carried the weight of everything we’d destroyed between us, I knew it was him before I even moved, and when I opened it, there he was.

Lucas.

His face was pale beneath the bruises of the fight, his eyes hollowed out like he’d carved out the parts of himself that used to look at me with warmth, with love, with anything but this ruin. His hair was damp with rain, his jaw clenched so tight I thought it might crack, and for a heartbeat, we just stared at each other, two ghosts in the doorway of what used to be ours.

“You didn’t have to break me like that,” he said, and his voice was quiet, too quiet, like he was afraid if he spoke louder it would shatter what little he had left holding him together.

I didn’t answer. I couldn’
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Linda
Why would she have refused the father of her child his right to a relationship with his kid straight after he’d saved their kid from kidnap pets? Why would she be so heartless after realising she loves the man and feeling ashamed of sleeping with someone else. NOT in character. Bad plot choice.
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