OVER 1 BILLION READERS ONLINE BEFORE meeting Tessa, Hardin was a raging storm. DURING the first minutes of their acquaintance, he realized his need to keep her all to himself – it was a matter of life and death. AFTER their union, the world would never be the same again. The dramatic love affair between Hardin and Tessa became a whirlwind that swept away everyone around them. For the first time, the narrative is given to all those characters who appear before, during, and after the events of the After series novels. At the same time, Hardin describes his first encounters with Tessa, changing your opinion about what you thought you knew about this dark boy and the angel who loved him. Anna Todd's fanfiction After has recorded over 1 billion online readings, attracting readers from all over the world. Now you too can discover the most talked-about book on the Internet! Translated from English by MARIA AKRIVAKI He had lost his way, going through life with minimal demands on himself. He had shaped his life with a mechanical repetition of the same actions, the same reactions, the same consequences. Women got mixed up with each other, their names became an endless repetition of Unknown X. That's how things were, until he met her, until the wind took her hair and whipped her face. Until the gray of her eyes haunted his sleep and the pink of her lips drove him crazy. He was falling in love with her intensely. At first, it was so fast that he wasn't sure if he really felt it or imagined it. But he felt it... he felt it tearing through him like a lion's roar. He began to depend on her for every breath, for every thought.