Teach Me to Live: Ch1

And here my new Love Never Dies story. I'm afraid the theme/'punchline' of this one probably isn't going to be such a surprise as I wanted it to be — I've tried it on two readers so far, and one said it was obvious in the first chapter and the other in the second — but I hope the delayed information doesn't appear too ridiculously contrived... otherwise the amount of Raoul-torture that goes on in this one will have been completely gratuitous :-(

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( Ch 1: Help Me Say Goodbye )