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Priceless

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  *Daniel’s pov* I tried and tried to find something worthwhile in Rose’s cabin. I didn’t find anything that seemed out of work. I don’t know if I could ever call her Aubrey. She will always be Rose for me. Rose. Delicate, gentle, and strong. I needed to know what secrets she was hiding that was troubling her. I would not think twice before taking all those horrible things away from her at any cost and hiding her safe from the entire world. She deserves calm and peace. She deserves everything. Just as I get searching the last cupboard, the shrill ring of my phone alerts me. My stomach twists when I see it’s Sophie calling. I had this weird feeling nagging at me that I pushed down not so long ago. “Is everything okay?” are the words that drop out of my mouth just as I answer the call. “Dan- Daniel, um,” she takes a breath in before continuing, “um, I think you should come here-” I end the call before she says anything more. This can’t be good. The familiar feeling of p

Priceless

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  *Daniel’s pov* I tried and tried to find something worthwhile in Rose’s cabin. I didn’t find anything that seemed out of work. I don’t know if I could ever call her Aubrey. She will always be Rose for me. Rose. Delicate, gentle, and strong. I needed to know what secrets she was hiding that was troubling her. I would not think twice before taking all those horrible things away from her at any cost and hiding her safe from the entire world. She deserves calm and peace. She deserves everything. Just as I get searching the last cupboard, the shrill ring of my phone alerts me. My stomach twists when I see it’s Sophie calling. I had this weird feeling nagging at me that I pushed down not so long ago. “Is everything okay?” are the words that drop out of my mouth just as I answer the call. “Dan- Daniel, um,” she takes a breath in before continuing, “um, I think you should come here-” I end the call before she says anything more. This can’t be good. The familiar feeling of p

The last door

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  There are days when you don’t understand what is happening and then there are days when inspite of knowing and understanding those things, you don’t want to acknowledge them so the thought of reality doesn’t bother you. It’s not really a healthy way of coping but sometimes it’s exactly what you need so that you can save yourself from the sheer terror of the reality being actually true. Daniel was doing the same. The idea that whatever notion he had known of Rose for so long when turned out to be just a fake identity, he tried to turn his mind into feeling that it wasn’t true at all. It felt like he was in a thriller movie and being the main character, he had no idea what to do. What was he supposed to do? He did not even know what a person Rose, or now that he knows Aubrey, really was. There were moments when he thought that Rose was just a figment of his imagination; someone like her was too kind and smart and beautiful to be real, but never in his wildest dreams did he