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2024-10-29 19:42:56She'll cry one more time tonight, hoping it's the last
and I'll lie beside her, a thousand miles apart
shedding the same tears, knowing it's not.
-- Leo Christopher
Aryan opened his apartment door and dragged his feet inside, quite late in the night.
He went straight to shower and let the hot water singe and sear his wound... he really didn't care. This was nothing compared to the deeper and invisible wounds that were inflicted on him all those years ago, which never healed.
To say that events of that day drained him emotionally would be an understatement.
After Chandni left, he spent an hour just lying on the sofa inhaling the faint perfume and smell she
Celestial_SesiI hope you are loving the flow of this story with the past memories interwoven with present times. Do you agree with Aryan's POV that Chandni was heartless and left him at the mercy of the police and goons all those years ago?
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