"She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her.She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again.
Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast."
-M.M. Gone with the Wind
♕♡︎♔
The year is 1919 and the story starts with an upper class girl on the run who arrives in the dirty town of Small Heath, Birmingham England.
Charlotte Rose Moore leaves her lavish lifestyle in America with one too many ghost in the closet for the shit and smoke infested town across the sea. Charlotte arrives unannounced on her aunt and cousins doorstep with all her belongings packed in two suitcases asking for a place to stay till she gets on her feet again.
The question is why? Why of all places is she here in the shithole that is Small Heath? Why did she leave her seemingly lavish lifestyle back in America?
YOU ARE READING
The Runaway • 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑦 𝑆ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑏𝑦
Fanfiction✧༄ Charlotte knew that right now, she was dancing in the very pits of hell with the devil himself. She knew the Shelby's weren't to be messed with, most of all Thomas Shelby who seemed to be the head of the family. Despite everyone's warnings, she w...