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April 19 - April 24, 2025
“It’s still there,” I confirmed, and she nodded, hope dancing in her eyes. It was such a fucking relief to have some good news that the two of us smiled. “You’re Fae, Blue, and you’re going to damn well stay that way.”
“Today was fucking devastating, beautiful,” I said. “But you know what keeps playing on repeat in my mind?” “What?” she asked, drawing me closer and fisting her hands in my hair. “The way you looked when you drove that blade into Lionel’s throat,”
“If you had full access to your magic and Order, you would have destroyed him, Blue. He’s a fucking coward who can’t face you like Fae, and if he ever did, he knows he’d lose,” I said fiercely, and she dropped her head to look at me. “You always have so much faith in me.” “You’re a queen destined to rule. I knew that the first moment I saw you.”
This was our little bubble of light, and no darkness could get in. It was purely ours, even if it was woefully temporary.
“I miss those days,” she said quietly, her smile falling, and my heart fell with it. “We’ll have them again,” I insisted.
touch. I cocked my head to one side, loving that I was the sole Fae on this earth allowed to have her like this. “Just for me,” I said in a gruff voice, urging a confirmation from her. “Only you,” she swore,
“Look at me. And don’t stop looking until I’m finished with you. Forget this place. It’s just us, beautiful. You and me.”
“When we get out of here, I’m going to have you like this every damn day,” I said heavily. “Because I spent too much time at the academy being cautious, letting time slip by where I didn’t see you at all. We’re gonna fuck, and laugh, and love each other, and I’m gonna make you smile from the moment you wake up in the morning to your last moments of wakefulness at night.”
“I want that more than anything,” she breathed. “We’re gonna make it to that future, beautiful.”
I used my strength to drag her up to kneel over my face, and one long stroke of my tongue had her crying out in delight.
She went limp as her orgasm shuddered through her and I lifted her up by the hips, placing her over my cock and driving deep into her with a flash of my Order speed, before she’d even realised I’d switched positions again. “Lance,” she gasped, her hands slamming to my chest to catch herself, and I laughed darkly as I gripped her hips and fucked her through the last waves of her climax, making her ride me just how I liked it.
JESUS CHRIST
This princess who owned me down to my bones, and who I would love to the edges of eternity.
Her tongue stroked mine and I was lost to her, possessed by the way she loved me and drowning in the beauty of the starlight which bound us.
“I never thanked you for offering yourself up to break the curse,” she whispered, her mouth falling against the space below my ear as she curled herself into the arc of my body. “I hate you for it, but I love you for it too. I love you so much, I don’t know how my heart contains it all.”
We’d been searching for him day and night, scouring the bodies one after the other, but there were so many of them to check that it was an endless task.
“He’s on our side, fratello. That’s Brian Washer.” “I don’t care who he is, his ass whistled in my mouth,” I snapped.
LMAOO
No one took a member of our family and got away with it.
“Where is she?” I breathed, my fingers brushing against the ice of the coffin to my left, my head turning that way as I looked to him for an answer I knew I wouldn’t get. It was a certain kind of agony coming here, lying with him without truly being with him at all.
I hadn’t been up for playing the role of pampered princess before the world had fallen apart at my feet, and I wasn’t going to start pretending now.
Melinda Altair stayed silent throughout the exchange, but there was a glimmer in her dark blue eyes which hinted at amusement and made me feel about one percent less hostile towards her.
“Thank you,” I breathed, my grip on his arm turning into a reassuring squeeze. “You don’t know how much I appreciate you telling me this and…I’m glad you survived.” Washer’s face crumpled and I sucked in an alarmed breath as he threw his arms around me, embracing me tightly. “I felt them dying all around me,” he breathed into my ear. “They were afraid and in pain, but all of them, each and every one, was proud to be fighting this fight for you and your sister. For a better world.”
FOR A BETTER WORLD ARE YOU JOKING TOG FLASHBACKS IM ILL
“Is Gabriel truly that gifted?” Melinda asked, her fearful eyes moving to Caleb then back to me for confirmation. “He’s the most powerful Seer of our time,” Xavier murmured hopelessly, and my jaw tightened at the defeat in the room.
“It’s no claim. Gabriel is my brother. My mother’s son.
Gabriel is the greatest Seer of our generation and I can only assume that Lionel discovered that fact somehow and decided to steal him for his own benefit,” I said plainly, sick of all the lies and secrets. I was proud to call Gabriel my brother and I wanted the whole world to know exactly who he was. “By the stars,” Melinda breathed, the three ex-Councillors exchanging concerned looks over that revelation.
“A hound bays for vengeance where the rift drinks deep,” Geraldine repeated in understanding, her eyes watering with tears. “He saw me. Little old nothing me.” “Don’t be ridiculous, Geraldine, of course he saw you. You’re one of the most important people in this whole damn kingdom,” I replied,
“What promises have you made?” Tiberius asked me and I raised my chin as I answered. “Vengeance, death, to find my family and to refuse the fate dealt to me and my husband.”
“Husband?” Antonia gasped, and Geraldine’s cries of pride turned into a wail of anguish at the news. I, however, turned to stone beneath the weight of that question, ice spilling through me, but I refused to release the flood of emotions threatening to break free. “Darius became a Vega the morning of the battle,” Xavier murmured in explanation, grief making his voice catch as he spoke. “I’ve never seen him as happy as he was when he took those vows.”
I could have sworn I felt an imposing shadow moving over me. A shiver ran down my spine, the scent of smoke and cedar filling my lungs as I inhaled, and I swear I could almost feel-
She inclined her head to me the smallest amount but ignored the Councillors entirely before setting a heavy wooden box hewn from earth magic onto the table in front of me.
Rosalie arched an amused brow at me before carrying on as if there had been no interruption. “There’s a bunch of Dragon treasure that belonged to Darius too – we left that in your room for you.” My heart twisted at the gesture, no words coming to my lips to convey how much I appreciated that act.
“It doesn’t take an army to kill a king,” I said coldly, the need for revenge rising in me so powerfully that I was more than tempted to ignore the fucking prophecy and simply head for the palace to kill him now. “Gabriel sent you that message for a reason,” Dante said, seeming to see that desire in me even as I realised he was right. “He knows that is when you will have a real chance at success, bella.”
How was I supposed to wait when I knew what Gabriel would be facing at the hands of that monster for every moment I delayed? But I did trust my brother. I trusted his gifts and I knew that he wouldn’t have wasted his last bit of magic on sending me that prophecy if it wasn’t vital that I followed it.
“See?” Leon said, looking between us all. “So obvious. I’ve spent years mastering the art of thwarting Gabe’s gifts. I can keep us safe from them while we wait for the time to strike.”
“You don’t need my permission,” I said, my mouth lifting a little at her theatrics. “Well, my lady, I think this Lion is cunning indeed, smarter perhaps than any faithful feline I have met afore!” she hollered, and Leon sat up straighter in his seat, looking smug as fuck while Dante snorted under his breath.
the process of emptying the box Rosalie had given me and my heart stalled as I took in the priceless trove of treasures that her pack member had recovered for us.
know I would never suggest such a thing, but…but…my sweet summer child with the bluest hair…”
“How did you get that?” I asked him as he began to tap the end of it in his palm, making the shadow eye bounce grossly inside it. “Best thief in the whole of Solaria,” he said simply, pointing at himself before tapping the spy glass in his palm again.
“Who the fuck would volunteer to have that thing put in their face?” Caleb asked in disgust as he recoiled from the table. “I volunteer myself!” Geraldine cried, pulling her grandma’s eye scoop from her pocket, and tipping her head back to the roof as she prepared to pluck her own eye from her face to make room for the shadow thing. “What the fuck are you doing?!” Max roared as he lunged for her, and I jumped to my feet as I fought to get the eye scoop away from her too. “No Geraldine!” I cried. “No fucking way!” She fought against us as we tried to take the scoop, calling out about willingly
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“Then I think we should get back to planning our next move,” Melinda said calmly, not even seeming to have been ruffled by the chaos of the shadow eye being splattered across Seth’s face and I had to admit, I quite liked her.
Or, hey bro, remember how I said we were BFF BJ buddies, well I’m actually so in love with you that I wanna tattoo your name on my cock, and I know you won’t ever feel that way about me, but hooking up with you is slowly breaking my heart because I know I can never truly, really have you.
I just wanted to remain furious at Darius, because the second I let the mask slip, I was gonna have to feel it all. The loss, the pain, the grief. I didn’t want it. I wasn’t strong enough to survive it.
Beyond it, Xavier was revealed, his eyes heavy with shadows and a dejected look about him that made me wonder if he would ever smile again. I stepped through the hole I’d made in the ice and wrapped my arms around him, drawing him tight to my chest. “I’m so sorry, Xavier.”
“Even if there was some small chance of us defeating Lionel now and the Council regaining power, I would die before I stepped into my brother’s place.”
I noticed how he called his father by his name, like he was rejecting all ties to him and refusing the word that made them family. I understood that on a soul-deep level. Real family were the people who earned their place in your life, not the ones who demanded things of you just because you were tethered to them by blood.
There were other Wolves who’d come to me, offering to form a group with me, but I’d rejected them all because I’d already had the best pack I could imagine. I’d had the Heirs, Darcy, Tory, Orion, even crazy-ass Geraldine Grus. They were my family, and some of the best times of my life had happened in The Burrows. It shouldn’t have taken losing everything to realise that.
It all seemed so fucked now. Darius was gone, Tory was heartbroken, Orion and Darcy were lost, and Max was trying to forge this new, sweet thing he had going with Geraldine amidst a world of despair. Then there was Caleb. The man who had become the centre of every thought, every dream, every nightmare I experienced day after day.
couldn’t breathe. I missed King’s Hollow. I missed when things were simple, but mostly I missed a time that didn’t even exist. A place where all of the people I loved were safe, where we weren’t at war with each other or a false king, and where my best friend was as fiercely in love with me as I was with him.
But there was no denying the truth that if the moon and stars offered me one, unconditional wish, it would always be him.
Darcy wasn’t here to call me out on my bullshit, Darius wasn’t here to keep me in line, Professor Orion wasn’t around to drag me into detention, and no one else was going to stop me.
Tory wasn’t a hugger. I knew that from first-hand experience of trying to get snuggles out of her, but the way she melted into him and rested her head to his chest had my lungs refusing to work. He spoke to her in soft murmurs, affection pouring from his eyes. I tried to lip read what he was saying and could have sworn I saw him say, ‘I’ve got you, sweetheart.’
