Romance · fiction
Stand Beside Me This Time
The first thing Gabriel Vale noticed about the woman on the concrete floor was that she kept apologizing for bleeding on it. Not screaming. Not begging. Apologizing. “I’m sorry,” she whispered for the third time, staring at the dark drops falling from her scraped palm. “I’ll clean it. I promise. Just give me something to wipe it with.” Nobody...
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