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Some love stories are written in the stars.
Ours was etched in missed chances and almosts.

A girl searching for herself…
After seventeen summers in Eden, I knew I loved the boy with the fractured heart. But time changes everything—and Nate Sullivan is no longer just a boy. He’s a storm in human form. Loving him feels like standing in the eye of a hurricane—breathtaking and devastating.
Now I’m faced with a choice that could shatter us for good…
Because some love stories aren’t fairytales—they’re survival stories.

A boy haunted by his past…
She was my calm in the chaos, the only light I ever saw in the dark. But I messed it up. I let the past define me, and I broke her heart in the process.
Now, Lenora Wells is back—and she’s not the same girl I knew.
And me? I’m still a mess pretending I’ve moved on.

We’ve made too many mistakes.
Hurt each other in ways we can’t take back.
But walking away from the one person who feels like home?
That might be the one thing I can’t do.

What if our ending… was always meant to be our beginning?

Before We Were is an emotionally charged, slow-burn New Adult romance about soul-deep first love, second chances, and healing in the ruins of heartbreak. Perfect for fans of angsty, heartfelt stories with protective boys, summer nostalgia, and love that refuses to quit.

File Name:before-we-were-by-monique-medved.epub

Original Title:Before We Were

Creator:Monique Medved

Language:en

Identifier:uuid:2f48dd5d-e2a7-4887-8cbc-7ce854c47e29

Date:2025-05-21T18:30:00+00:00

File Size:1.182 MB

Title Page

Dedication

Copyright

A Note To Readers

Welcome To Eden Mixtape

Prologue

1. The Summer Before Seventeen

2. Don’t Forget The Curly Fries

3. Busted

4. You’re Only Sixteen Once

5. Specks With Colossal Problems

6. Vodka, Lime And Old Flames

7. Connor James

8. Breathe In, Breathe Out

9. Last Summer

10. Never Drinking Again

11. You Should See The Other Guy

12. Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones

13. Bitches And Bonfires

14. Late Night Swims

15. The Beginning Of The Downfall

16. Lost Stories, Found Words

17. Lads Day Out

18. Carnivals And Confrontations

19. Cotton Candy And Daisy Bracelets

20. I Got You

21. Seeing Ghosts

22. Pieces Of A Puzzle

23. The Thing About Odds

24. Sunrises And Cinnabons

25. A Part Of Me Died

26. What's His Name?

27. Late Night Drives

28. You’re Naked

29. The Quiet Destruction

30. Wanna Fly?

31. Frosted Flakes At 2Am

32. You're Safe With Me

33. Happy Birthday Jake

34. Expect The Unexpected

35. Ripples Of The Past

36. Drowning In Truth

37. Reckonings

38. Just Like Old Times

39. Parallel Lines

40. Front Row Seats To The Shit Show

41. Nora's Mixtape #17

42. Sorry On Repeat

43. Seventeen

44. The Rent Is Free In My Head

45. The Geometry Of Almost

46. Fresh Paint Over Old Cracks

47. Found Family

48. Deaf Or Blind?

49. Sixty Seconds

50. Where Shadows Meet

51. The Alchemy Of Letting Go

52. Father Figure

53. A Very Unhappy Fourth Of July

54. Like A Bull In A China Shop

55. The Responsible Adult

56. The Call

57. Magnata

58. The Aftermath

59. He Won't Hurt You Anymore

60. I Know What You Did Last Summer

61. Restoring What's Broken

62. Three Words, None Of Them I Love You

63. He Can’t, But I Will

64. A Wrinkle In Time

65. A Flicker Of Hope

66. Name

67. Did We Just Become Best Friends?

68. Dancing In The Dark

69. No More Hiding

70. Mic Drops And Bombshells

71. The Sins We Inherit

72. Blink And Gone

73. God, Can You Hear Me?

74. Blur

75. Dancing With The Devil

76. Becoming Through Breaking

77. Broken Promiƨeƨ

78. Choices

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Before We Were by Monique Medved

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