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Heartbreak made me reckless. Loving him made me whole.
When Steve Rogers broke my heart, I wasn't sure I'd ever recover. He was my everything, until he wasn't.
So I pieced myself back together the only way I knew how. With anger. With mistakes. With fire. And with someone I never expected-his best friend.
James Barnes is complicated. Dangerous. Broken in his own ways. But he's the one who stayed. The one who chose me.
This isn't a fairytale.
It's messy. It's devastating.
And it's real.
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