Everyone has scars, pasts, and painful realities that they are fighting for deep down within themselves. But sometimes pain is never enough and there come moments when you just can't stand the universe. 

After six years of constant failure, consistent trying, and disappointment, Claire was hopeless when it came to finding Markus. Devoted her youth in just one task yet became one of the successful personality of the business world. Always void of emotions and only one person she ever had as a family, she never lived her life. But things started to get excited when Ryan came barging into her life with only being 20 minutes late. It's the story of two completely different souls, hunting through the stages of love, bickering, and painful pasts, only to crave for each other. 

A story that held two souls too close to each other yet so far from each other. But will Claire ever be able to love someone after Scarlett and Markus? Can she ever face Ryan with her truth? What that truth even was? But the real question was that how much could Ryan actually take? And what if someone endangers their lives when love becomes inevitable?

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Too Close to Be Yours

Moon had never seemed so beautiful to me. So bright and glowy, like absorbing life of itself within. I smiled just at the thought of how Ryan and I spent time under that same glow. Something had changed. Maybe my view, my perspective, -- a kind of glorious joyous life seemed to be fallen on me. 


Everything seemed to be going really fast yet so slow. Sometimes, I just wanted to melt in the moments. I turned my head upon the smell of coffee and saw dad holding two mugs. 


I took one from him as we both leaned over the window. All the houses across seemed so silent and dwelling on emptiness from my room window. I could feel dad's calculative gaze on me. 


"Maybe the best I have been in years," I replied with a little shrug. 


We fell into the silence, the silence of anticipation of next words, -- the hanging silent. 


Chapter 24