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One Touch of Serenity

One Touch of Serenity

UNIKA WRITES

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"I can't do this anymore, Hannah. I can't wake up another day without you by my side. You own me, Hannah. You grasp my every thought. Please, come back to me" ***** Forty-Year-old Hannah Morales married at the age of twenty-two to please her parents. But after a life of trauma that has left her with scars she is still healing from, she lost all hope of ever finding love. But all that changed when she met the young androgynous Serenity Gils. Twenty-four-year-old Serenity Gils never thought she'd find the one for her, the reason why she easily got bored with her one-night stands. But after meeting Hannah Morales at a new years eve party and bumping into her again at a BDSM club, Serenity realized she was finding love in the wrong age group. Hannah and Serenity begin a whirlwind romance. It was filled with everything Serenity thought she'd never find and everything Hannah longed for. But when Hannah is put in a life-threatening situation, she has to make a decision and no matter what she chose, hearts will be broken. -------

Chapter 1 I do

** August 2000 **

Hannah Morales stared at her reflection in the mirror. Just a few minutes ago, three women surrounded her. Whilst one worked on her hair, the other applied a variety of products on her face which she had lost count of and the last woman arranged the beautiful white dress she had on.

It wasn't like the typical dress every girl dreamt of wearing on a day like this. This one was special and it meant the world to her.

Her grandmother wore it. So did her mom. And now, she was wearing it. And she loved it. It was a beautiful dress after all, not adorned with extravagant pearls and whatnot. It was simple yet classy.

And it was what the women in her family had worn on their wedding day, a day Hannah has been dreaming of. The day when she walked down the aisle, wearing the same dress her mother wore whilst she was minutes away from marrying the love of her life.

Except, the man she was marrying wasn't the love of her life. He was her friend and Hannah had a great amount of respect for him. But she didn't love him. They grew up together and went to the same high school, but that was it. Her feelings for him are purely platonic. As for every man she'd met.

Matter of fact, she didn't like anyone with a joystick between their legs. Growing up, Hannah Morales found her attraction to women insane. It wasn't until she turned seventeen that she fully came to terms with it. The fact that she loved women. So much so that she'd grown to hate the thought of being with a man intimately. Hell, the thought of coming home to a man after a long ass day at work made her stomach churn.

But it had to be done. For the sake of her family and the position they held in the community. Coming out would soil their reputation, which is why she didn't protest when they asked her to marry Austin Jenkins, she agreed.

Her dad was the mayor of the city. And her mom, well, she was a trophy wife, and her soon-to-be in-laws were quite known around town too. Two influential families coming together. One word, power.

But Hannah didn't want to be a trophy wife like her mom. There was so much she wanted to do with her life. She wanted to start up her own business and make a name for herself, not hide behind her family's last name and her husband's last name like her mother did.

And that was the aspect where both women didn't see eye to eye.

"Oh Hannah my dear, you look lovely" her mother, Mrs Morales walked in, a proud smile on her face and a pool of tears gleaming in her eyes.

She looked briefly at the woman whom she took her hazel eyes from. "Thanks, mom" she looked back at her reflection.

"Let's go. Your dad is waiting by the limousine to take you to church. I can't believe you'll soon become Mrs Jenkins" the older woman whose hair was rapidly showing signs of ageing cooed.

Hannah sighed. That was another thing she wasn't okay with. She didn't want to carry Austin's last name. She didn't want to be a Jenkins. She was, after all, marrying the man to please her parents, couldn't she at least keep her last name?

Bringing it up now will be the genesis of yet another argument and she didn't want that. She needed her thoughts intact while she made the worse decision of her life. How ironic.

Hannah Morales wished the 1995 limousine didn't reach the wedding venue as fast as it did. She wished the ride lasted a while. She was even ready to entertain her father's bickering if it meant she could have enjoyed her last seconds as a free woman.

But much to her dismay, she was listening to the instructions of the wedding planner her family has been interacting with for the past months on how processing into the hall will look like.

She listened, but nothing sank in.

And then she felt her father's hand on her shoulder.

"Let's go, honey. It's our turn"

The next minutes happened in a daze. Her hands were entangled in her father's, then they were walking down the red carpet leading to the alter, he was whispering in her ear words which would make her smile on any other day.

"I can't believe I'm giving you off to another man. Seems just yesterday when you were playing in the garden" the older man's voice was laced with emotions.

'Yeah, can't believe it either".

Hannah's mental remark was filled with disgust.

The doors opened and everyone looked in their direction.

Hannah swallowed a gulp. Her soon-to-be husband was exactly fifty steps away from her.

Hannah Morales forced a smile on her face. But it didn't last long. So she made a mental note to smile only when she made eye contact with someone.

And well, once she was standing at the altar with her soon-to-be husband.

Her hands disentangled from her father's and he gracefully kissed her on the cheeks then handed her over to Austin as though she were a parcel.

Hannah pushed that thought to the back of her mind and tried to focus on what awaited her.

When Austin took her hand, she felt cold and she froze on the spot. And then she remembered she had to smile.

The corners of her mouth raised and she gave him a sly smile.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to put in matrimony, two people who love each other" the bald priest with a beard spoke out.

Love? Hannah gave a mental chuckle at the priest's statement. She fancied Austin, that was the most she felt for him.

Seeing the smile plastered on Austin's face, Hannah Morales knew she could not marry this man. She knew she could not spend the rest of her life with this man.

It wouldn't be fair to either of them.

She should have apologised then and there to him, to their family and to everyone who'd come for her.

But she couldn't. She couldn't bring that pain to her parents. So when the priest began with the rites, Hannah dismissed those thoughts into the pit of her brain.

"Do you, Austin Jenkins, take Hannah Morales to be your lawfully wedded wife? To love and to cherish, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse until death do you part?"

Austin looked at Hannah with a smile that broke her heart.

"I do" he replied.

"Do you, Hannah Morales, take Austin Jenkins to be your lawfully wedded husband? To love and to cherish, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse until death do you part?"

Hannah looked at Austin. She could tell that he'd picked up on the fact that she didn't want to marry him. So he gave her a pleading look, begging her to ruin his reputation.

Hannah was silent. In her heart, she knew whatever decision she made, someone will get hurt.

So, she closed her eyes and said the words she knew will be the start of her nightmare.

"I do"

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One Touch of Serenity
1

Chapter 1 I do

30/05/2023

2

Chapter 2 Honeymoon

30/05/2023

3

Chapter 3 Withering flower

30/05/2023

4

Chapter 4 Moving on

30/05/2023

5

Chapter 5 First Meet

30/05/2023

6

Chapter 6 Serenity Gils

30/05/2023

7

Chapter 7 Another encounter

30/05/2023

8

Chapter 8 A promise for Wednesday night

30/05/2023

9

Chapter 9 Coward

30/05/2023

10

Chapter 10 Peaches

30/05/2023

11

Chapter 11 Cum for me

30/05/2023

12

Chapter 12 Falling hard and fast

30/05/2023

13

Chapter 13 Submission

30/05/2023

14

Chapter 14 TearDrop

30/05/2023

15

Chapter 15 Utterly and irrevocably in love

30/05/2023

16

Chapter 16 Light at the end of the tunnel

30/05/2023

17

Chapter 17 Crashing

30/05/2023

18

Chapter 18 First heartbreak

30/05/2023

19

Chapter 19 Resolution

30/05/2023

20

Chapter 20 Business meeting

01/06/2023

21

Chapter 21 Trust

04/06/2023

22

Chapter 22 Fuck me sideways

01/07/2023

23

Chapter 23 A shocking resemblance

02/07/2023

24

Chapter 24 God, I fucking love you.

08/07/2023

25

Chapter 25 An awkward lunch

13/07/2023

26

Chapter 26 A deal breaker

15/07/2023

27

Chapter 27 Trip down memory lane 1

18/07/2023

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Chapter 28 Trip down memory lane 2

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29

Chapter 29 Trip down memory lane 3

02/11/2023

30

Chapter 30 Iron things out

04/11/2023

31

Chapter 31 Right next to you

12/11/2023

32

Chapter 32 I love you

16/11/2023

33

Chapter 33 Fleetingly

22/05/2024

34

Chapter 34 Run ins and invite

22/05/2024

35

Chapter 35 Truth: Adopted

22/05/2024

36

Chapter 36 I got you

22/05/2024

37

Chapter 37 Business Meeting

22/05/2024

38

Chapter 38 Sexual Appointment

22/05/2024

39

Chapter 39 My good girl

26/05/2024

40

Chapter 40 Hiatus

08/06/2024