Secrets in the Ashes: Fragments of Desire
READING AGE 18+
"Why the masks, why did you scare me?" I asked Austin.
He laughed, flashing his white teeth. "You used to love that game, Harlow. Eden was hoping it would jog your memory."
"That wasn't a game, Austin. I thought you were going to hurt me."
His eyes flicked down to my mouth, and I winced as he pinched my cheeks. "The games are just beginning again, Harlow. You're ours to do with as we please."
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Memories are what can make you or break you. Something bad made Harlow forget about her youth, but now her youth, the men she grew up with and loved, have come to claim her.
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Memories flooded past the wall that I had so carefully constructed in my youth, a wall that now lay in shambles.
Destruction lay all around me in the form of forced silence and stolen youth.
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“Secrets in the Ashes: Fragments of Desire” is the original work of Jasper Quirk, an eGlobal Publishing Company signed author.
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~six years later~
I rounded up all the kids and passed out their lunch boxes as they walked out the door, like little ducks in a row.
"Mama Harlow," one of the boys stopped in the doorway, hand on his lunchbox.
"What is it, sweetie?" I leaned down so that we were eye to eye.
Ethan was a sweet k……
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