The Man Who Locked Me Away

For eight years, Ivy Larkin loved Julian Rourke and never hid it. To make her stop, he brought home another woman, and when that woman staged a fall and blamed Ivy, Julian signed the papers that shut Ivy inside a brutal "facility." Three years later Ivy walks out unrecognizable: obedient, flinching, afraid of any pair of eyes. Julian collects her for his grandmother's birthday, and the old feeling is gone, burned out of her. But the scars under her clothes tell a worse story than a whip. Something was taken from her while she slept, and the place that took it hid the crime behind the word "education." As Julian slowly uncovers the truth he refused to believe, Ivy is only trying to survive her last months, selling hotdogs on a quiet lane. There, a bright young man named Theo Wren keeps coming back, asking a question no one ever asked her: does it hurt? A story of a love that ended, a crime that surfaced, and a second chance that arrived just before it was too late.

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  • Author: fake_dating_agenda
  • Chapters: 9
  • Status: Ongoing

For eight years, Ivy Larkin loved Julian Rourke and never hid it. To make her stop, he brought home another woman, and when that woman staged a fall and blamed Ivy, Julian signed the papers that shut Ivy inside a brutal "facility." Three years later Ivy walks out unrecognizable: obedient, flinching, afraid of any pair of eyes. Julian collects her for his grandmother's birthday, and the old feeling is gone, burned out of her. But the scars under her clothes tell a worse story than a whip. Something was taken from her while she slept, and the place that took it hid the crime behind the word "education." As Julian slowly uncovers the truth he refused to believe, Ivy is only trying to survive her last months, selling hotdogs on a quiet lane. There, a bright young man named Theo Wren keeps coming back, asking a question no one ever asked her: does it hurt? A story of a love that ended, a crime that surfaced, and a second chance that arrived just before it was too late.