One Day Soon

One Day Soon

**Standalone Contemporary Romance** <br /> <br />He found me in blood and tears. <br />I stayed with him through darkness and fire. <br /> <br />We loved each other in the moment between innocence and bitter truth. <br />We were the kids easily ignored, who grew into adults we hardly knew. <br /> <br />We weren’t meant to last forever. And we didn’t. <br /> <br />He ran away. <br />I tried to move on. <br /> <br />Yet I never stopped thinking about the boy who had fought to keep me alive in a world that would have swallowed me whole. He was the past that I buried, but never forgot. <br /> <br />Until the day I found him again, years after believing I had lost him forever. <br /> <br />And in cold, resentful eyes, I saw the heart of the man who had been everything when I had nothing at all. So I vowed to hold onto the second chance that was stolen from the children we had been. <br /> <br />Sometimes fate is ugly. Life can be twisted. <br />And who we are can be ruined by who we once were. <br /> <br />For two people who had survived so much, we would have to learn how to hold on before we were forced to let go. <br /> <br />**trigger warning- contains mature themes that are intense and imply abuse, though are not graphic** <br />