Bared Souls (The Beautiful Souls Collection #1)
Ellie Wade
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· 13 ratings · 413 pages · Published: 12 Sep 2020

He told me that he’d destroy me.
I knew he wasn’t lying, and I loved him anyway.
I believed in love—in him.
I just wasn’t prepared to carry the weight of his demons.
I wanted forever with him, but life showed me love was temporary, and forever was a dream.
Despite everything that happened, even now, I wouldn’t change any of it.
For a love to have the capacity to destroy you, it has to be extraordinarily powerful—and that kind of love is impossible to walk away from.
Leo Harding
I warned her that I’d ruin her. I knew that I’d taint her innocence with my bad intentions.
I was weak.
She was perfection.
I was nothing.
The truth is that I loved her, and I selfishly wanted to hold on—to her, to the man she had made me, to the life we could have.
I wanted to dance with her in the light despite knowing that the darkness would find me anyway.
Heartbreak was inevitable.
Yet I held on to the sliver of hope that I was wrong, that love really was enough.
Destiny isn’t something I buy into, but she makes me want to believe.
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- new adult 2
- contemporary 2
- m-f romance 1
- class difference 1
- college 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- working class heroine 1
- possessive hero 1
- tortured hero 1
- dual pov 1
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- substance abuse 1
- past child abuse 1
- past child neglect 1