Collided Fate

very go

ee as she turned to the last pa

mian beside her, then at the b

acy, albeit in a different form. Reading in-between the lines, she could tell that even though there wouldn't be any physical

amp. She tried to get some sleep. But she couldn't; an image involuntarily haunted her, one

t Ruby wouldn't mind getting more actually. The goddamn movies she was being cast in these days lacked the originality of those ones back then that brought her to

out of the role, worming her way into it instead. But in this case, the fem

Ruby from getting what she wanted? A bold,

he side in his sleep, adjusting

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as all

ing. Tyler did not come back from the café with her this night. He proba

fter wandering aimlessly and getting lost in the third bedroom that looked exactly th

riefly to confirm she wasn't in the wrong one. Then, she picked up

ie

n reining in, suppressing tightly for the past six months since she had moved to this town in

ice took on a soft, soothing tone. Collins

talk ab

lins couldn't see her, "It's nothin

took on a chill that startled Luna.

a bad day, that's all." Luna di

stent, "Or is it

uctions, "I'm fine, really. No one hurt me, a

other end was s

art of your produ

d to have settled Collins, as his

r control. Chin up and cheer up, we can always go again—harder and str

lf. Collins always knew th

nd Luna was already feeling be

ch. They asked me the othe

nock their asses in poker, he he. Talk about

afted through the soundpiece, d

now. I could pick up the next flight and be there by mor

cting—is your dream, and we won't be in the way of it

ng poker this Thursday night with the boys. But Luna couldn't tell Collins that. She would have to te

ir complicated relationship. She didn't quite know what

ound her, Collins had taken her under his care.

her Luna now as much as it did then. She had been really terrified when she first saw Collins, seeing him as the bad guy. It didn't help

treated her badly. Never forced her to do anything against her will