Story Title: Borrowed Splendour
Fandom(s): Ted Lasso
Rating: PG
Word Count: 6,042
Summary: Loving her comes in stages. Too small to notice at first, when it counts, and then all at once, later, when it doesn’t.
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It’s his fault, really, of course it is, that he missed the signs. After all, there’s nothing as soft as love, and softness is weakness, something he’s tried to bury his whole life. )