Story By mimee
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Velvet Ashes: Too late to stop me falling
Updated at Dec 16, 2025, 10:41
Too Late to Stop Me Falling. Lalissa Monroe’s life breaks fragment by fragment. Her parents die in a car accident that was tagged as unavoidable, yet everything about it feels wrong. she has dreams and memories about the event of the day, but can't seem to piece it. The questions she never gets answers to follow her into the orphanage, and later into a foster home that only wanted her as a maid for their own child. After that, Lalissa learns a different kind of survival, from love her story turns to one of hatred where she is treated as a piece of trash. she learnt to stay useful, and never asked to be loved.By the time she transfers to a prestigious school far above her social class, through a scholarship, Lalissa has mastered how to navigate life on her own. She doesn’t expect kindness, nor protection. She certainly doesn’t expect to be noticed.But Draco Demaco notices her, the heir to the school owner. Draco is everything Lalissa had planned to avoid all her life. He is extremely powerful, controlled, and dangerously observant. He comes from a world, that is totally different from hers. His name carries weight and his family are the richest in the country. He is cruel without reason, and he isn’t kind without purpose. When Lalissa refuses to shrink around him, his curiosity turns into attention, and attention slowly becomes something far more complicated.What begins as tension and hatred slowly develops into something that they both didn't see coming.Draco inserts himself into her life in ways Lalissa doesn’t understand, from causing problems for her at first to fixing problems she never asked him to solve, watching her with an intensity that feels both protective and suffocating. Lalissa knows better than to trust someone like him, but she also knows what it feels like to be completely alone. And she takes the risky path of relying and trusting him.As their connection deepens, pieces of Lalissa’s past begin to resurface. The accident that killed her parents may not have been an accident at all, and the truth is tied to the people Draco has spent his entire life defending. The closer she gets to him, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Loving Draco means standing too close to answers she was never meant to uncover.And when betrayal finally shows its face, Lalissa must decide whether walking away will save her, or whether some falls can’t be stopped once they’ve begun. By the time the truth comes out, it may already be too late to stop her falling, and she has to choose between revenge which leads her to loneliness or letting go for the sake of love.
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