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2024-10-29 19:42:56Humanity’s greatest flaw wasn’t beauty. It was trust.
Trust in money. Trust in power. Trust in protection.
Trust in faith.
She sat alone on the great porch of pristine white. A magnificent southern architect of Victorian embellishment touched with towering Greek columns and antebellum grace. Proud oaks and their willowy hair guarded her dream as wisterias curled around the wrought iron black gates.
Such was a visionary excellence to all passerby. Glorious beauty with no depth. Everything within her grasp, but none of it to hold her together. For all the money, charm and charisma this space had to offer, it could not fill the deepest pits in the soul that yearned for something out of reach.
Freedom was often a fleeting visage.
Gwendolyn was quite the troubled rose. A definite heartbreaker in her blossoming youth and now, a full bloom Venus. She held the world through eyes the color of depression. The waves so dark and volatile, she stoo
About the author: Melissa S. Vice is an American author of erotica, fantasy and paranormal romance novels. Vice was born in Duluth, GA a proud Libra in the fall of October. She is the author of Oblivion, the fantasy romance novel and book one of her Tales of Incipion series, and the highly anticipated werewolf novel, Beneath the Blood Moon. An avid reader, she was introduced to her first taste of whimsical love, Wishes by Jude Deveraux, and has expanded her shelves since those tender years of youth and blissful ignorance. Her enjoyment for video games and books inspire unlimited worlds of adventure and everlasting love to rival those that had come before.
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