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by
Cora Crane
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October 7 - October 10, 2024
Mariah was a dream I never allowed myself to have, a wish upon a star that I extinguished with my own hands.
These next fourteen days will either be my sweetest fantasy come true—or my ultimate undoing.
I’m torn between wanting to yank him down for another scorching kiss or knee him in the groin for making me feel this way.
Falling for my bully is not part of the plan.
“Have you properly groveled yet? Because from what you’ve told me, it sounds like you’ve barely apologized, let alone made a real effort to atone for your past actions.”
Watching a smart man confidently in his element does something to my insides that should be illegal.
It’s a strange kind of magic, this: the power of sincere words spoken by someone you never thought capable of them.
If we were really together, I’d shut the bar down for the night and fuck her on every surface, giving her orgasm after orgasm until she couldn’t see straight.
“Mariah isn’t just some passing fling. She’s the love of my life, and I’ll be damned if I let anyone, even my own blood, disrespect her.”
“When you love someone,” I say softly, looking up toward Thorak, “that love has the power to overcome any history, to heal any wound.”
“I haven’t seen chemistry like that since I accidentally mixed salamander spittle and dragon horn dust and nearly blew up my house!”
Love is a risk, babe. A leap of faith. No one can ever know for sure how it’ll turn out. But if you don’t jump, you’ll never fly.”
want to know everything you like, and then show you again and again how well I can learn…”
“Show me how sorry you are,” I demand. “Prove it to me.”
“I just need you to know that it was real for me. Every moment, every kiss, every time I held you in my arms. It was the realest thing I’ve ever known.”
“We don’t have any lube,” I say. “I have some in my bag,” Mariah says, blushing.
They’ve taken our family ring and altered it to include a human tradition.
“My mate, my love, my everything.”
My orc. My husband. My heart.
