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June 22 - June 24, 2025
Serce adjusted the neckline of her deep scarlet dress, pushing up her breasts so they were displayed to their full advantage. She didn’t see the need to pretend she didn’t understand her assets and used them to their potential whenever the need arose.
Yk what, hell yeah
Of course, she was beautiful. She didn’t need this male to validate that. He made it sound like he was doing her a favor by noticing.
she hoped he wouldn’t kick up a fuss when he realized he held the secondary role in this relationship. What she needed was a partner who looked the part but knew when to keep his mouth shut.
So hey I love her
It was an irrevocable shift. A moment of reckoning. An unstoppable tide. As she stared at Wolf, she knew then, with the certainty of the sun that rose over the ocean and the roses that bloomed in the garden, that her life had just changed forever.
This is what a princess’s life is supposed to be like. Full of luxury and pretty things to enjoy. It wasn’t supposed to be spent behind the damp walls of the worst prison in Ouranos.
“You want to know about Nostraza?” I hiss, stepping closer, my hands balling into fists. “I’ll tell you about Nostraza. I was thrown in there when I was twelve years old. I was stripped of everything and made to sleep side by side with the worst kind of monsters you can imagine. Thieves and rapists and murderers who all looked at me and Willow as if we were fucking snacks. “Tristan spent the better part of those years barely sleeping so he could protect us. I learned to bring down a man twice my size with a single blow to his windpipe, just so I wasn’t raped in my own bed every night. “But
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Sooo powerful! Wow
“You’re welcome.” He opens his mouth and pauses as though he’s hesitating about what he wants to say next. “I should have tried harder from the beginning.”
No shit
“They’re your brother and sister,” Amya says then, her dark gaze flicking between us. “They’re not your friends, they’re your family.”
“Please go see your family. Spend time with them tonight,” he says. “I’ll come and see you tomorrow.”
there’s something about this prisoner from Nostraza that tastes like a secret belonging only to me.
Without another word, I bolt up the stairs, taking them two at a time. She can catch up with her siblings tomorrow.
Brotha go back down the fucking stairs
Being older, Tristan and Willow always remembered more, though the information was often vague and full of holes.
Idk why always thought Willow was younger
Inhaling a deep breath, I blow it out slowly and prepare for everything to change. “My…our grandmother was the Heart Queen who almost broke the world.”
“Out with it, Mother,” she snapped, sitting up straight and pressing her lips into a thin line. “Say whatever it is you want to say. We’re here with our allies, are we not?”
She is messyyyy I lowk loveeeee
From the corner of her eye, Serce saw Wolf approaching. His large hands were loose at his sides, and as he came to stand behind her, she understood something about him. Something that made him so different from men like Atlas. He’d come to back her up but not take over, proving he would be there for her no matter the cost.
Amya presses her lips together and shoots my brother a dark look.
This could be a cute match up
Thankfully, my nights have been free of filthy dreams featuring the Aurora Prince. I’m not disappointed about it. I’m definitely not.
Uh huh sure girl
I whisper into Nadir’s ear, and I swear I feel him shiver.
😋
When I’m around her, I can’t breathe. I can’t think. I’m tongue-tied and can barely speak when she looks at me with that accusing stare and that mixture of raw vulnerability and fierce defiance in her eyes. Why is she the most breathtaking thing I’ve ever seen? And it’s not just a physical attraction. Though yes, I want to touch her so badly my hands ache, but I’ve never met anyone who was so fucking sure of herself.
She behaves exactly like a queen.
Gods, when she scolds me like that, I want to kiss her. Partly to shut her up, but mostly to feel those lips against mine and bask in that savage anger as I tear off her clothes and fuck her so hard she sees stars.
She smells like every fantasy I’ve ever had. Like the roots growing in the earth and the hearts of blooming roses. Like lightning and smoke and pure untamed flames.
One that’s appalled he was about to drop his towel in front of me and one that sort of wanted to see what was under there. No. Stop it, Lor. He’s a monster. It doesn’t matter what’s under there.
stepping back, his expression hard.
Yk what else is hard
I thought I looked rather nice, but I suppose he doesn’t care. To him, I’m just a tool. Just a criminal from Nostraza he’s using to get what he wants. Why am I concerned with what he thinks, anyway?
Oh baby that is so NOT what he thinks
“Get away from her,” Nadir says, his voice so low and dangerous I swear every light in the room flickers in response.
🙄 ASSHOLE alert
For now, she would pretend they had aligned interests. Because Serce wasn’t to be trusted, either.
I LOVEEEE HER
His finger pushed inside her and she cried out as his thumb circled her clit. “And…we’ll…crush Rion. And conquer…every…corner…of…the…continent.”
“You will be the most powerful, Serce,” he said, his words low and dangerous. “And I will stand beside you—my queen, my heart, my mate—and help you take it all.”
A MANNNN
“Thinking about my ass, Inmate?”
AHAHAHAHA
“Good girl,” he says and then gives me a surprised look, as though he hadn’t meant to say that.
“Lor,” he whispers. His voice is soft, but there’s something as jagged as torn iron buried in that single syllable. He said my name. My actual name and I’ve never loved the sound of it more than I do at this moment. That simple, nothing name that was given to me to keep me as anonymous and unremarkable as possible. Somehow, he makes it sound like it’s a name forged in fire and created for a queen.
he drops his head and runs his nose along the curve of my throat,
“Let’s go,” he says, his voice rough. “We need to get out of here before my father finds us.”
??!! Bro??!!
“So, what exactly did my grandmother do? How did she cut off everyone’s magic?”
Really? We’re going from almost having sex in a closet to this shit? Bruh
I want to punch that face, but I also really want something else. I think. I shake my head. Fuck.
His voice drops to a rasp and his lips brush against my ear. “I feel it every time you’re in the room. You make me so fucking hard I can’t think straight. I’ve jerked off in the shower every day, thinking about you. Thinking about how much you hate me.”
ITS HAPPENING GUYS ITS HAPPENING
“Spend one night with me. I’ll break you into pieces. I’ll fuck your mouth and your pussy with my tongue and my cock and my fingers and make you come so many times you lose count. I’ll make you beg for it again and again.”
His head drops next to my ear with a gentle brush of lips. “Understand I’ll be ready at any moment you’re ready to say yes.”
I spin around and bolt for the bathroom. It has a lock on the door, and it’s the only place I can run.
Rlly? Omfg
“Oh, to have the confidence of a male born to privilege.”
How do I repost
“How are Willow and Tristan?” Amya asks as Mael drops into another vacant chair. I give my sister a curious look, wondering why she’s so concerned.
SHE LIKES TRISTANNNN IM CALLING IT
Our eyes meet and everything, everything stirs within me. My worries about the kingdom are pushed away as she stands there watching us with that open gaze that makes my chest hurt. When I propositioned her a few days ago, it had taken every ounce of my strength not to press her to that window and kiss her until she forgot her own name. I want her like I want air and the magic that flows in my veins. Why is her draw so powerful?
“Isn’t she perfect?” She looks at me, her face shining and a knowing glint in her eye. “Yes,” I say, my voice rough. “Perfect.” Absolutely fucking perfect.
Like he’s a page in a book where I can read every word, but I only know some of the language.
This is SUCH a good metaphor HELLO???
“What do you think it means that you had the same dream I did?” I ask. He pulls up to look at me, a wicked smile on his face. “That the universe wants us to fuck, too.”
AHAHAHAHA THIS WOULD WORK ON ME IM SORRY
If you asked me, I’d spread you out in the middle of the room and feast on you for everyone to see. The only reason I’m glad you won’t is because I want you all to myself.”
“Be a good girl,” he purrs in my ear and my heart kicks in my chest. “Spread your legs.”
“I think I’ll have him killed.” Nadir takes a casual sip of his drink, and I choke on mine. “Why?” “I don’t like the way he was looking at you. He was watching your ass as you walked away.” I blow out a breath, puffing a lock of hair out of my eyes. “Is this what you’re going to be like now?” “This is how I always was. I’m just not hiding it anymore.”
“You’re going to ruin me, too, Inmate,” he says softly, making me realize I just said at least part of that out loud. “Lucky for you, we’ll go down in the blaze together.”
