❝Love being the only flower that opens and reaches for the light. Light will always come, because it longs to be reached for, and darkness is put away.❞

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❝I'd hoped I'd be seeing you again.❞

❝Why exactly?❞

❝Something about you intrigued me.❞

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Abigail grew up in her family's manor that resisted in the protected city of Idris. The Shadowhunter home country, a sanctuary hidden from mundanes, given to them by the Angel Raziel. Being the youngest of her four other siblings, she was the last one to be married off and carry on the family name. She grew up wanting to explore the world and do something exciting with her life. But that all changes when she gets engaged to Michael Wayland.

The two were polar opposites, having different views and beliefs in the world. She felt his views outrageous, sexist and barbaric, she refuses to accept his offer of marriage. She wants to do nothing but get away from it all and start all over, a chance to be herself in the world; but it that enough? Abandoned by her close friends and now considered a disappointment to her family name, she finds herself lost in alone in a new city. Afraid to go to the London Institute for shelter, she wanders around the streets of London to clear her head.

Ending up at a local pub at two in the morning, she runs into four boys who are out celebrating their recent, graduation from school. Remus and his closest friends, now Hogwarts graduates decided, practically gets dragged out to go for drinks. Capturing the eye of the lonely girl, who sits alone at the bar, he is oblivious of the world around him. As the two get closer, they soon find out that love can be found in some unusual places. Will love triumph over all or will evil prevail in the end?