Chapter 1: The Man Who Never Existed
The small town of Ravenshade was the kind of place people left, not the kind they came back to.
But Damien Cross had no choice.
When he received a letter—no sender, no return address, just five words scrawled in familiar handwriting: “He’s still alive. Come home.”—he knew he had to return.
The only problem?
The man they were talking about had died five years ago.
Chapter 2: The Ghost of Alexander Vale
Once, Alexander Vale had been Damien’s world.
They had spent stolen nights in the old lighthouse on the cliffs, whispering secrets beneath the stars, promising each other forever.
But forever had ended too soon.
The police said Alexander drowned—his car found at the bottom of the ravine, his body lost to the river.
Damien had spent years trying to forget.
But now, standing in his childhood town, he heard the impossible rumor.
Someone had seen Alexander.
Alive.
Chapter 3: A Face from the Past
The first time Damien saw him again, it was in the middle of a rainstorm.
A shadowy figure stood at the edge of the pier, wind whipping through his dark coat.
Damien’s heart pounded. It couldn’t be.
“Alexander?” he whispered.
The man turned.
And for a moment, Damien forgot how to breathe.
It was him.
Same deep green eyes. Same sharp jawline.
But something was wrong.
Alexander’s gaze was cold. Empty. Like he was looking through Damien, not at him.
“You’re mistaken,” Alexander said, his voice unfamiliar, hollow. “I don’t know you.”
Then he turned and disappeared into the fog.
And Damien was left questioning his own sanity.
Chapter 4: The Web of Lies
The more Damien searched, the darker the truth became.
Records erased. Witnesses silenced.
Alexander Vale was never supposed to exist.
And the man walking around with his face?
He wasn’t the Alexander Damien once loved.
Or was he?
Chapter 5: The Truth Beneath the Surface
One night, Damien followed him—through winding alleys, past abandoned docks—until finally, he confronted him.
“Who are you?” Damien demanded.
The man exhaled. Then, softly—“You should have stayed away.”
Damien stepped closer. “Tell me the truth.”
A long silence.
Then, a whisper that shattered everything.
“I never died, Damien.”
Damien’s blood turned cold.
And when Alexander—his Alexander—brushed his fingers against Damien’s wrist, the touch sent a shiver through him.
“Then why did you leave me?” Damien asked, voice shaking.
Alexander’s eyes darkened.
“Because if I stayed…” He exhaled. “They would have killed you too.”
Chapter 6: Love in the Shadows
The truth unraveled like a nightmare.
Alexander had been forced to disappear—to erase himself from history to protect Damien from a past neither of them understood.
But now, the people who had taken him wanted him dead.
And Damien was caught in the middle.
“Come with me,” Alexander whispered one night, standing at the edge of the cliffs. “Let’s run. Like we always planned.”
Damien’s heart ached. “You think we can just escape?”
Alexander reached out, cupping Damien’s face.
“I don’t care about anything else. Just you.”
And in that moment, Damien knew—
Even after death. After lies. After everything.
He still loved him.
Epilogue: Vanishing into the Fog
The next morning, the town woke to find Damien Cross and Alexander Vale missing.
No footprints. No clues.
Just the whispers.
Of two lovers who vanished into the fog.
And if you listened closely on stormy nights—
You could still hear their laughter carried on the wind.
Because some love stories never die.
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