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    After completing first ever succesful ligation of an aortic aneurysm Jack is dragged away from Belle’s beside, unknowing whether she will live or die. Days later Belle wakes fully, now aware of Jack’s imprisonment how far will she be pushed before he can return to her?

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    Days after the surgery there are complications, Belle’s life hangs in the balance once more but this time Jack may not be able to save her. They both await death if the other cannot save them so it’s up to Lady Jane Fox, her daughter’s life, or her pride?

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    17 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 84

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    “We’re alive, Ray,” Pete asserted, brown, weary eyes locked with Ray’s. “We’re fuckin’ alive. God, I’ve never felt more alive than right now. Feel this, mm?”

    Peter clutched Ray’s hand and planted it on his scarred chest, a little to the left, right on his heart. Ray could feel it, felt it dancing and kicking, like it wanted to get out, share blood with the arteries that perfused the hand on top of it. It was alive, McVries was alive.

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    28 Oct 2025

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  3. Public Bookmark 39

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    Ray can't hear anything anymore other than Pete. The intermittent jolt of warnings, the sobs, feet and wheels against pavement, all of it is crowded out by Pete's voice and hands.

    “Being all pent up does strange things to a man’s head," Pete says.
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    Obligatory Pete asks Ray if he can jerk him off fic.

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    28 Oct 2025

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  4. Public Bookmark 45

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    It’s been a month. A month since he left the hospital. Which means it’s been two months since...since the end. Or the beginning maybe? Two months since the rain and the crowd and the pain. Two months since he’d spoken to the boy he loved. And now he's stood outside his door, not sure what to do.

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    27 Oct 2025

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  5. Public Bookmark 85

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    Two boys walk toward death and find love instead.
    Between the miles and the rain, Ray Garraty learns that Pete McVries tastes like cinnamon, almond, and survival—and Pete learns that love can still bloom, even on the road to dying.

    Only one keeps walking.
    The other lets the rain take him home.

    But that isn't the end, no. Just the beginning of a love story unfolding.

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    26 Oct 2025

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