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    “i’m exhausted. i don’t know where the last few years have gone. my kids are my entire life and they’re all having a hard time, but in different ways, and i’m trying to help them but i feel like i’m failing them anyway because i’m barely at home anymore. i can’t divide my attention between them the way i could when i wasn’t working, because now i work every spare shift i can pick up. i do it so i can make sure they won’t go hungry because their dad couldn’t give them the same consideration and i—,” beth stops herself, stutters out a breath, finishes, “—i’m just… suspended in time, waiting for it to get easier. and i stay up all night sometimes because i can’t stop thinking that maybe it won’t.”

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    or: beth is separated from dean, going through a messy divorce, and quickly nearing the end of her rope. when annie suggests beth attend a single parent support group at the local rec center, beth takes her sister’s advice.

     

    she ends up meeting rio.

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    20 Jun 2022

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    Penelope Featherington has always dreamt of the day she would marry her best friend, Colin Bridgerton.

    What she didn't realize is that she would be marrying him for obligation, not for love.

    At least, not at first...

    ** Slow burn taking place directly after the events of season 2, fic now complete**

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    13 Jun 2022

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    "The Alpha in him begs to differ, clawing at the precarious thread of control that remains, his scent now permeating and soaking the air particles in the room. And then everything is lilies, sweet and cloying coating his throat and blocking his senses. "

     

    The Alpha/Omega/Beta Kanthony AU that nobody asked for that I couldn't not write after him publicly basking in her scent.

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    26 May 2022

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    What's a little harmless kissing between friends.......right?

    aka Beth and Rio are friends in college who decide to kiss. For fun. But both of them secretly want more. Too bad they're idiots!

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    02 May 2022