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After her long-term boyfriend breaks up with her, San Francisco lawyer Bella Swan goes into a deep depression. She blames herself for the split and begins losing herself in a string of one night strands, convincing herself she will never find love again in the process. When she makes her regular visit to her friend Leah's bar one day, she doesn't expect for this bronze-haired man sitting next to her to begin a conversation. What surprises her even more is that she—for the life of her—cannot stop looking at him and admiring his looks: a chiseled jaw, long eyelashes, wild hair, and sharp greyish-blue eyes. It doesn't help that his voice is velvet smooth when he introduces himself as Edward and orders a Macallan twenty-five—he’s rich too. When Bella gets a little too drunk—in more than one way—Edward offers to drive the brown-eyed, yet broken beauty back to her house. The attraction is mutual, but Edward finds himself trying to break through the shell that Bella has created around herself and not be just another faceless man for her. He is determined to make Bella his in every way, but how much patience will that take? Will Bella ever see the man in front of her and believe that she can love, even more than before, again?

Lose the One You Love is a fabulous story that will wrench your heart in many ways! One thing I should start by saying is that the characters are very OOC in this fic, as you can tell by Edward's grey-blue eyes and Bella's depressive one-night stands but the different characters are amazingly portrayed by Discordia81. She makes the reader fall in love with them with her detailed writing style. I absolutely adored Edward in this story; he is the epitome of the perfect man out there, one who is willing to build the fire within you and one who is willing to wait as long as it takes for you to love him back. In addition, he is a professional museum curator in this fanfiction, which only adds to his sexiness because of all his artistic knowledge. The entire story is told in Bella's perspective, so the initial few chapters are pretty hard to get through because you can literally feel her grief and loneliness. But as the story progresses, Discordia81 manages to let the readers see how Bella unravels from her shell and begins to realize who she really loves with the help of Edward. And did I mention the lemons? Because they are so toe-curling that you will definitely be hooked to the story if you aren't already by the plot! A MUST read story!

Lose The One You Love consists of 46 chapters and a total of 225,348 words. The story is rated M for language and sexual content.

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Twenty-two year old Bella Swan has worked very hard to get to where she is. At the moment, she works under vice president Edward Cullen in the patient registration department at Providence Medical Center in Portland. Bella’s had a crush on Mr. Cullen since she started working at PMC but only her best friend Tanya is aware of her little infatuation. Eventually, Bella decides to take a risk and give into her attraction to Edward. The two embark on what initially starts out as a physical relationship but slowly begins to develop into a rather complicated relationship; a relationship they need to keep a secret if they don't want to run the chance of losing their jobs...

Thirty-nine year old Edward Cullen is a divorced, single father. His days start and end with thoughts of Maggie, his sixteen-year old daughter. He had been married to Heidi until he found out about her having an affair with another man. In order to protect their daughter and privacy, Edward and Heidi mutually decided to keep the reason for their divorce a secret, yet once Maggie starts spinning lies to break her father and Bella apart, all is revealed. Meanwhile, being the spiteful and jealous woman that she is, Heidi threatens to tell the board about Bella and Edward’s affair as an act of revenge; believing that it was Edward who brought her affair to light. Will Edward and Bella's feelings be strong enough to overcome all this drama or will they lose their jobs and what could be a wonderful relationship instead?

Beyond the Break Room is a heartfelt story about love, friendship, and not letting go of what you truly believe in. Edward and Bella’s story is a bumpy one, with realistic obstacles a.k.a. spiteful exes and angry children who are hungry for attention. This is one of the first WIPs I followed and I loved every minute of it until the very end. I literally couldn’t wait for Discordia81 to update and read the next chapter. This is a fanfiction you don’t want to miss out on. It’s more of a slow burn but it’s sweet, sensuous, and HOT - filled with office lemons and everything. Discordia81 is such a talented writer and knows exactly how how she wants her characters to come across. It’s definitely worth the read. It’s written in Bella’s point of view, except for one outtake in Edward’s point of view. It’s very well written with little, if any, grammatical errors.

Beyond the Break Room consists of 36 chapters and 200,489 words. The story is rated M for language, sexual content, and some angst. 

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