KISS OR KILL, CHERRY? (M×M)
EZREN: Kiss or kill. Those were always the two options left.. until the past walks back into my life in the form of blue eyes, ginger curls, and a tattoo he swears I should remember.
Knox Graye. A diagnosed psychopath. Says he was my brother’s boyfriend. That I left him to die and that I hold the only truth to his death.
He is everywhere. Digging up my lies. Ruining what’s left of my life. Call me ‘Cherry’ like it means something. I swear I hate it. I hate him.
I don’t know if he wants closure, revenge, or just someone to break. Either way, I’m his target and his third option.
KNOX:
Everyone thinks I’ve got a loose screw in the head but they're wrong. I lost the whole damn toolbox, buried six feet under with the only person I ever loved.
I've spent six years grieving. Dying in pieces while he rots away in a grave but now? Now someone else walk around in his bones, smiling with his lips like he fuckin’ owns it.
Like I wouldn’t recognize my own goddamn Cherry. Except now he calls himself Ezren.
Cute.
He thinks he has been hiding behind top grades and golden-boy charm, but I built his whole damn maze.
And now that he's close? I’m done with subtlety. I want chaos in his veins, his secrets peeled off like skin. I want to crawl into the part of his head where he still hears his brother’s laugh and whisper: “You were always mine."
He doesn’t know it yet, but I’m going to dismantle him. Brick by fucking brick. And when he finally breaks, I’ll be there to offer him a choice.
“Kiss or kill, Cherry?”
Baca
Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHT- This Isn’t a Romance.Knox:“You say what?”Ezren’s voice was a strangled screech, half confusion, half panic, and fully annoying.I rolled my eyes, gripped the wheel again, and turned back to the road, back on track. There was no point in answering him. I could already feel his stare pressing into the side of my skull like he thought he could force an explanation out of me.“I’m sorry,” he tried again,“I must’ve misheard you. You said you’re my—?”“Boyfriend,” I repeated. “Try keeping up, genius. It’s not brain surgery, you know.”“And why the hell would we lie about that?!”I turned slightly toward him, one hand on the wheel. “Because we’re talking about that fucker,” I said. “And I’m not walking into his engagement alone like I’ve been nursing heartbreak and jerking off to old memories for the past three years.”And because Bobby is exactly the name Alex Pa knew would mess with my head. The one he dangled just to see if I’d pull a runner mid-drive. And normally? I would’ve. I would've gladly fed his exp
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-27
Chapter: CHAPTER SEVEN- From now on, little Cherry..Knox: Ezren’s a damn idiot. Remember how he was all mouth last night? Yelling about how he wasn’t going to South End, how no one could drag him there, and how he wasn’t some “little freak” to be ordered around? He even had the balls to point at me with the same energy as someone flinging an insult with a finger dipped in glitter as if he was about to conduct a fucking exorcism on me. Goddamn ME. But guess who’s in the passenger seat of my car right now? He’s got his arms crossed, his head leaned against the window like he’s filming a tragic indie movie in his head. His boots won’t quit tapping the floor, some kind of Morse code for “get me the hell out of here.” If I didn’t know him, I’d think he was just anxious, but I do know him, and this is exactly how he acts when he wants attention without asking for it. I hadn’t said a word since we pulled out. Didn’t see the point in wasting air on someone who acts like every emotion he has should be carved into a monument.
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-18
Chapter: CHAPTER SIX- South End.Ezren: I didn’t say a damn thing after that, just like they wanted. And they didn’t either. Eli yanked the blanket off like it had personally offended him and stood up without a single word. His shoulder nudged mine as he passed, and yeah, if that wasn’t on purpose, then I’m not the ghost of every bad decision I’ve ever made, in boots. He paused at the door. “I’ll be outside,” was all he said, before slamming it hard enough to make the walls shudder. For some reason, I found myself wondering why his dad chose to live in a place like this while he stayed up in some penthouse suite. I mean, the Graye family could buy the entire Upper East Side and still have change for a yacht named after their trust fund. Not that the place didn’t have a vibe. It did. It doesn’t look cheap or abandoned. It actually feels like home. Typical Graye Family energy, if you ask me. Dark wood and dusty corners. It was chaotic, a little haunted, probably hiding a secret or two in the floorboards…
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-07-12
Chapter: CHAPTER FIVE- Shut up, Ezren!Ezren: You ever walk into a room and feel like you’re the only one who doesn’t know what the hell is actually going on? That’s how I felt as I breathed in slow, stepped back into the room Eli was in, and lowered myself onto the same chair beside Eli. The one Gareth had pulled out before heading off to check on dinner. In less than twenty-four hours, my life’s already spinning off track and I’ve got Eli’s charming asshole of a brother to thank for that. Sorry, ‘Stepbrother.’ Still can’t believe I kissed the guy. I’ve got questions. A thousand of them but, no one here will give me the answers I want. And what’s messing with my head the most? Somehow, Eli’s tangled up in my past. And now, every damn person in this house apparently knows the name Raveni and knows that I’m one. Even Eli. The one person I thought I’d been fooling this whole time. And like life doesn’t know when to stop screwing with me, the self-centered bastard I called a father is still out there obsessi
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-27
Chapter: CHAPTER FOUR- Terms and Threats.Knox:It’s dark now, but the street has this strange glow to it, like nothing’s wrong. We hadn’t even gotten halfway down the block before I saw them standing there.Two Ravenites. Not in uniform, nothing flashy. They wore regular clothes, as if they belonged in any other average street, but I’d recognize those stiff movements anywhere. One leaned back on a black car parked by the curb. The other had his arms folded across his chest exactly like a prick auditioning for a death sentence.Then I saw Eli.He was slumped on the ground, his back pressed to a metal mailbox. Gareth Pa stood beside him, barely holding it together. The look in his eyes said he wasn’t far from falling apart.Eli wasn’t unconscious, but he was far from okay.I let go of Ezren’s arm so fast, he stumbled forward. My body moved before I could process anything else.My steps took me to Eli without a thought. His jaw was clenched. His hands were pressed to his sides, fingers working like they were reacting to pain
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-23
Chapter: CHAPTER THREE- He knows.Knox: I said it six years ago that I’d be back like a thief in the night. And now I am. Exactly like a thief, with the kind of grin you earn from years of knowing you were right. Fifteen minutes. That’s how long I spent making sure he understood. That I wasn’t just back. I was inside his carefully rebuilt life, already peeling it apart. I didn’t need to raise my voice. I just watched until fear started to set in behind his eyes. The kind of fear I live for. We reached the building. The elevator dinged like a countdown. The doors slid open with a hiss, and he stepped in first. Of course he did. Some things just don’t change. Not even him. His dark hair was still messily styled to look unintentional and casual. Always trying so hard to look like he wasn’t trying at all. And the scent, the exact same one from back then, it hit me in the gut. Six years, and it still clung to him like it belonged to him. Cherry. All that time he spent running, hiding, pretending… and he still sm
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-06-18
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