Holding On

kkay 1 story

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Summary

It's been four years since Sandra left Glenview, four years since the death of her best friend Moira. Yet her mind keeps spiraling back to the dark and gloomy areas of her life. All she wants is to graduate quietly and leave everyone-for good. But one person keeps grounding her back to the reality: Asher Hades. To avoid flunking in her last semester, she joined a literary program for extra credit... but what truly captures her interest in the mundane class are those piercing blue eyes that seem to see right through her walls. Aside from his shiny medals and silver ice blades, nothing excites Asher Hades anymore-except the brown eyed beauty who groans at Shakespearean sonnets and pretends not to care. Sandra Walker has intrigued him since the moment she walked in, existing in corners of his head he didn't even know existed. With pressure mounting from the rink and his men's singles debut looming, Asher hatches a plan to forget her once and for all. But a terrifying kind of intimacy grows between them-one that doesn't follow clean lines, but instead spills into their cracks, their shadows, their mess. And when Sandra's bitter past in Glenview starts clawing its way back-and Asher's carefully buried guilt threatens to crack-they'll have to confront more than just their feelings for each other. "Everything is falling apart, so please... just let me keep holding on to this. To you." TW: Death, mention of self-harm, sexual assault.