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What If?

This story contains themes of: assault, child abuse, depression, eating disorders, self-harm, sexual assault abuse, stalker, pedophilia, exploitation

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Summary

At eighteen, Ivory Sterling has learned that love is as fleeting as it is painful. The weight of a past she cannot escape has left her heart frozen, her world reduced to silence and solitude. The one person she never had the courage to love is gone, and with him, any hope she once had for something more. When Declan Ford enters her life, a man as enigmatic and broken as she is, their connection is undeniable, yet their hatred is equally powerful. Bound by unspoken truths and the ghosts of their pasts, they find themselves caught between what was and what could never be. In a world full of "what ifs," they must face the question that haunts them both: Can love survive the weight of regret, or is it forever doomed to remain a memory?

Status
1yr ago
Chapters
52
Rating
5.0 (2 reviews)
Age Rating
18+

| Synopsis

At eighteen, Ivory Sterling has learned that love is as fleeting as it is painful. The weight of a past she cannot escape has left her heart frozen, her world reduced to silence and solitude.

The one person she never had the courage to love is gone, and with him, any hope she once had for something more.

When Declan Ford enters her life, a man as enigmatic and cold as she is, their connection is undeniable, yet their hatred is equally powerful.

Bound by unspoken truths and the ghosts of their pasts, they find themselves caught between what was and what could never be.

In a world full of “what ifs,” they must face the question that haunts them both: Can love survive the weight of regret, or is it forever doomed to remain a memory?


- w a r n i n g -

Mature Content

Trauma

Mentions of Sexual Abuse

Age-Gap


- o t h e r - b o o k s -

Roses & Thorns

ACE

Her Knight

Heather - His Lost Angel

E U N O I A

Serendipity

Unholy Obsession



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