For Seraphina, I gave up everything—the career, the city, the future I had planned—and poured three years into the life we were meant to share. It all shattered when she skipped our engagement party for a boy pretending a routine appendectomy was a crisis. Once I uncovered his vicious game, I resigned in silence and vanished into Black Bay’s unforgiving slums. I thought distance would kill what I still felt for her, until she came after me across the world, burdened with regret and refusing to let me disappear from her life.
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