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August 25 - September 8, 2025
Jacks didn’t look like heartbreak come to life.
“I don’t know if I can fix your broken heart, but you can take mine because it’s already yours.
“It’s not a real kiss if there isn’t any tongue.”
Jacks had stopped the wedding by turning everyone to stone.
an arsenal of charm.
He wore a flowing white silk shirt with a lacy jabot that cascaded down to a pair of black leather pants so tight she was surprised he could move.
Maybe, deep down, Evangeline feared that she and Luc weren’t actually cursed, but he was just an unfaithful boy.
parentless orphan.
He’d never called her his most precious treasure or mentioned his heart beating.
In the North, fairytales and history were treated as one and the same because their stories and histories were all cursed.
Marisol glowed as if Evangeline had given her a bouquet of wishing stars.
Stepping into the North didn’t just feel like the start of something, it felt like the start of everything.
The walls were papered in sepia-tinted pages covered in drawings of dazed sailors and wicked mer-girls. The theme continued in Evangeline and Marisol’s suite. The frames of their beds mimicked open wooden treasure chests with posters formed of the largest white pearls she’d ever seen.
What if Apollo really was her chance at a happily ever after, and she ran away because of a different what-if named Jacks?
But it was difficult to imagine any human girl breaking any part of Jacks.
Apollo burned like a fire that consumed instead of warmed. And yet there must have been a part of her that wanted to be scorched, or at the very least singed.
But the murmurs were like villains at the end of a story. They just wouldn’t die.
Dragon-roasted apples were supposed to taste like true love.