A late brother's best friend romance. Four years away from home, a meticulously constructed 'new' life, and a heavy curtain to hide my skeletons behind. I was doing well. Okay, maybe I was tired and struggling, working two jobs to pay my bills (but mostly just to keep myself busy). I couldn't risk having time to be bored and alone with my thoughts. It helped that the people I surrounded myself with only knew as much as I let on, they only knew the Lucie that existed since moving a state away from a time and place that still haunted me. Overall, I truly was okay. That was until the one person, with nearly as many ties as I had to the ghost that haunted me, reentered my life, seemingly out of nowhere. Now, I was forced to balance the life I've built for myself with my past that insisted on lurking around every corner, no matter how hard I tried to move on from it. Maybe the physical distance wasn't enough to separate myself from the most significant and life-altering event I'd ever experienced.
18 parts