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August 14 - August 15, 2024
“When you can behave as well as they do, Inmate, then I’ll consider treating you the same.” “My name is Lor, you asshole,”
I burrow into the center of my soul, feeling for the magic I know is locked deep within me. Where I’ve kept it trapped for so many long years.
It’s addictive. The way she hates me. The way she burns with that fire that glows so white hot, I ache whenever she looks at me.
Of course you love it 😍
And if they’re the heirs of Heart, then who is the king looking for?”
“My magic feels strained around her,” I say. “Like it’s trying to come out of my skin. Like it wants to…touch her.”
Rion had grown too powerful already, and with his recent bonding to the Aurora Queen, his strength would only grow.
Ughhhh
the Heart Queen had a petty streak she often failed to restrain.
Runs in the family lmao
“I’m the Woodlands King, Wolf,” he said, his voice rumbling and rich. “It’s a pleasure to meet you, Serce.”
I’ll howl for this man
“Inmate,” comes the snarl on the other side. “Fuck off!”
😂😂😂
“You laid down your terms, Inmate. They’ve been released from Nostraza. Their sentences are cleared. You’re all free from there. Forever.”
NADIR IS A SOFTY AND I LOVE HIM
I needed a chameleon. Someone who could charm her way into any space, especially those where they’d make the mistake of underestimating a beautiful woman.
Okay Hylene I see you and I respect you
our grandmother was the Heart Queen who almost broke the world.”
“When the Heart Queen nearly broke the world, she took the magic of Ouranos with her.
“This is one of the gifts of Heart. The ability to ‘fold’ into yourself and become human.
For the next Primary to ascend, the current Primary must either pass on or choose the descension and travel to the Evanescence. No one knows exactly what it is, but it’s a state of existence between life and death.”
“There is a condition of the Artefact’s magic that if the Primary heir kills the king or queen in power, then they’ll lose their magic and a new Primary will be named.
The tangled web of secrets we’ve kept for so long hangs between us like either a noose or a lifeline. Only time will tell which.
“Only one horse? I’m not riding with you.”
YES YES YES YES YES YES
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?
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.
I CANT WAIT TO SEE HER POWERRRRR
I can’t stop thinking about what she’ll really sound like when I do that to her, because I’ve decided no matter how much she hates me, I have to have her. One way or another, I won’t be able to live with myself if I don’t make her moan like that outside of my dreams.
“Maybe your usual conquests are boring.” There is a pause that lasts for a heartbeat before he says, “Maybe.”
FERAL POSSUM SCREAM
I got here first.
So territorial Lor!!
“I said, get away from her.”
“If I catch you anywhere near her again, I’ll tear out your throat. This is your only warning.”
“Stay.” A ripple shudders over my skin at the way his low whisper taps at some secret place deep inside me. “Please.”
When I feel his hand slide up the side of my thigh, my breath hitches, my bottom lip catching between my teeth. His eyes go dark, absent of those swirling colors,
IM DECEASED
“I don’t know what that bastard did to you, but I’m going to help you get your crown, Heart Queen, and I’m going to make him pay. For all of it.”
CAN I STOP SWOONING? DOUBTFUL
Why were only those burdened with a womb the ones saddled with this sticky task?
PREACH 👏🏻👏🏻
The way her magic and her body responded to his presence was reverent. Something powerful and sacred.
“She said it’s possible for two Primaries to join their Artefacts, though it’s never been done in living memory
but she believes bonding two Primaries will have a tenfold effect on our magic.”
“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.”
“Thinking about my ass, Inmate?”
But I’ve never felt more at peace than I do right now. I’ve never felt so comfortable in my own body. There’s a disconcerting sense that I’ve found something I’ve lost. Like I’ve come home.
“Lor,” he whispers.
My actual name and I’ve never loved the sound of it more than I do at this moment.
There’s conflict in them. And a desire so visceral, my core melts into liquid heat.
The main clue that suggests they were working with powerful magic was the Woodlands Staff was found amongst the wreckage, miraculously unharmed.”
“And Imperial magic?” “That is the magic sourced from every realm. It is the lifeblood and the thread that holds the land and its people together.
Imperial magic is strongest in anyone who belongs the royal family, particularly those of the direct line.”
“What did he do to you?
Nadir asking about his dad the snakeeeee
“Let’s talk about how you pressed yourself against me. I could smell how wet you were in that closet.”
SCREEEEECHHHINNGGGGGGG
“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.”
That doesn’t stop me from wanting to strip off these clothes and fuck you so hard the bed collapses.”
“Understand I’ll be ready at any moment you’re ready to say yes.”
I vow then to show her how sex can be with someone who doesn’t force her into it.
ANOTHER CONSENT KINGGGGGG
Nadir had been so striking in his perfect black suit, cut to fit the lines of his body like the fabric had created an entire religion just to revere him.
Okay I’m obsessed with this description
