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S. A. Holloway
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Marked By Hell

Marked By Hell

During the height of the plague, Elizabeth is known for touching the dying without fear and for surviving longer than anyone should. The village calls her witch. Death calls her interesting. Malachor is a demon bound to plague and passing souls, ancient and cruel, intrigued by a healer who refuses to beg. When Elizabeth is condemned, thrown into a plague pit, and left to die, she calls out, not to God, but to the darkness watching her. He answers. Bound to a demon of death, Elizabeth survives… and is slowly claimed. Desire becomes devotion. Mercy becomes sin. A dark historical fantasy romance of plague, power, and forbidden surrender where love corrupts, salvation fails, and Hell is the only vow kept. TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING: This story contains mature themes and content intended for adult audiences (18+) Reader discretion is advised. It includes moments of violence, coercion and domination themes, sexual content and dark erotic elements, emotional trauma and moral corruption, blasphemous themes involving demons, faith, and damnation
Baca
Chapter: CHAPTER 45: What She Cannot Heal
The road south was narrower than Elizabeth expected. Not a true road, really—more a shared scar in the land pressed flat. Grass clung stubbornly to its edges. Stones surfaced and vanished again. It wound between fields that had been worked too hard and rested too little, their soil pale and tired. No one was looking for her here. That knowledge was both comfort and wound. The village emerged slowly, as though it had been hesitant to reveal itself. First a chimney, then a fence, then a cluster of low roofs pressed together against the wind. Smoke hung close to the ground, unwilling to rise far. It smelled of damp wood and boiled grain. Of life being maintained rather than lived. Elizabeth paused at the edge of it. A woman passed her carrying a bucket and did not look twice. A man nodded politely and continued on. A child ran past, laughing, nearly colliding with her before darting away again. No one flinched. She felt strang
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-03-01
Chapter: CHAPTER 44: What Remains in the Flesh
Elizabeth learned the consequence in small, disquieting calibrations. The way her stride lengthened without effort. The way her hands, once stiff with ache, now closed easily around weight. The way hunger arrived late and left early, no longer demanding constant negotiation. And then the other half. The places where she felt strangely thin. Her chest, when she breathed too deeply, felt delicate, as if the lungs inside had learned a new rhythm and would not tolerate force. Sleep came hard and left her abruptly, her body alert even at rest. Alive, she thought. But alive differently. She stood at the edge of the pit at dawn. Or rather—where the pit had been forced to change shape. The ground had given way in the night. Not collapsed so much as withdrawn. Earth slumped inward, edges soft and uneven, as if the land itself had tried—and failed—to keep what had be
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-02-28
Chapter: CHAPTER 43: What God Did Not Do
Elizabeth drifted into a state where rest and awareness overlapped, where the body lay still but the mind did not retreat. Her breathing remained even, her limbs heavy but responsive, as though she could move if she chose to, though the thought never quite formed. The world softened. Sound thinned first. The subtle noises of distant insects, the whisper of leaves beyond the stone—faded until only the rhythm of breath remained. The ground beneath her feet cooled sharply. Elizabeth stood. Barefoot on stone. Cold seeped into the soles of her feet, a familiar sensation that drew memory up through her bones before she had time to think. The air smelled of wax and old wood and faintly of damp—an echo of incense long since burned away. The church. Not as it had been in recent days—crowded, anxious, thick with suspicion—but as it had existed years earlier, when or
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-02-27
Chapter: CHAPTER 42: What Wakes With Her
Elizabeth woke slowly, the quiet pressing in like a blanket woven from shadows and stone. No echoes of the fever haunted her now, just this enveloping stillness that cradled her body. She lay on her side, the cool earth beneath a thin layer of fabric grounding her, while warmth bloomed against her back. Arms encircled her waist, solid and unyielding, a presence that had settled into her space without demand. She inhaled deeply, the air cool and laced with a scent that stirred something deep—earthy, like damp rock kissed by distant thunder, mingled with a faint, clean sharpness. It belonged to him, Malachor. His chest rose and fell in rhythm behind her, each breath deliberate, watchful. Her eyes fluttered open to muted light seeping through the trees. Elizabeth shifted slightly, testing her limbs. They moved without protest, her body light yet anchored, as if reclaimed from the illness that had clawed at her. No ache lingered in her j
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-02-26
Chapter: CHAPTER 41: The Binding
Elizabeth's body shuddered in the aftermath of her shattering climax, every nerve ending raw and screaming from the overload. Her pussy clenched sporadically around Malachor's unrelenting cock, the thick shaft still buried deep, stretching her torn walls with each punishing grind. She gasped for air, her cheek ground into the altar's unforgiving stone, ass high in the air as he loomed over her like a predator claiming its prey. With a savage yank, he pulled out almost completely, the sudden emptiness making her pussy clench on nothing, juices and blood dribbling down her thighs. Before she could protest, his massive hand wrapped around her waist, flipping her onto her back again in one brutal twist. The altar scraped her spine, reigniting the burns from earlier, but she barely registered it—her eyes locked on his blood-smeared fangs, his eyes glowing with feral hunger. "Not fucking d
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-02-25
Chapter: CHAPTER 40: Consecration in Ruin
With a savage snarl, Malachor yanked her off his cock, strings of spit connecting her gasping mouth to his glistening tip. His claws raked down her nightgown, ripping the soaked fabric apart in one brutal tear. The cool night air hit her exposed skin, her full breasts bouncing free, nipples pebbled and begging. Elizabeth shivered, naked now, her pussy throbbing with need as she stared at his towering, muscular body. He scooped her up effortlessly, one arm under her, the other cradling her back like she weighed nothing. His cock, still rock-hard and slick from her throat, rubbed against her wet folds as he carried her across the ruins. The thick head nudged her clit with each step, smearing her juices along his length, sending jolts of fire through her veins. She whimpered, wrapping her legs around his waist instinctively, grinding against him, the friction making her clit pulse. Malachor reached the ancie
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-02-24
The Blood Opera

The Blood Opera

Behind velvet curtains and gilded balconies, the opera is more than a performance. It's a hunting ground, a court of monsters disguised as patrons and benefactors. When a masked nobleman claims her talent as his own, Lyria is drawn into a world where music is power, restraint is survival, and desire is the most dangerous temptation of all. The longer Lyria remains under his protection, the more she awakens. Her body responds to hungers she does not yet understand and her are dreams invaded by a silver-eyed predator who promises freedom instead of restraint. As the opera's beauty curdles into something predatory, Lyria must decide what she is willing to become to survive it. The stage is watching. The city is listening. And once the blood sings, it cannot be silenced. TRIGGER/CONTENT WARNING: This story contains mature themes and content intended for adult audiences (18+) Reader discretion is advised. It includes moments of violence, sexual content and dark erotic elements, manipulation, obsession, and emotional power dynamics.
Baca
Chapter: EPILOGUE
AVELThe Opera House does not forgive absence.It remembers footsteps. Breath. Blood.Avel moved through it like a sleepwalker. He ascended the marble stairs, pushing through the doors without meeting the doormen’s eyes as they bowed out of habit. He passed the gilded foyer, the velvet curtains, the chandeliers dimming for the night, and entered the quiet heart of the building.Silas hesitated in the doorway.“Did you find her?”“Yes,” Avel said. “But she left with him.”Grief flickered across Silas’ face. “She’s alive,” he said gently in an attempt to comfort.Avel closed his eyes. “Yes.”“And fed.”“Yes.”“And safe.”Avel opened his eyes.“No,” he whispered.Silas’ throat tightened. “Avel—”“Do you understand what Caelan is?” Avel said, his voice barely sound. “He isn’t a teacher. He isn’t a protector. He’s the night when it decides to wear a shape.”He stood at the center of the room, hands flexing at his sides, as if the body he’d worn for centuries had suddenly become too small t
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-16
Chapter: Chapter 63: A ROOM TOO SMALL
Avel carried me to his bed as though he feared the shadows would swallow me whole if he let go.I didn’t resist. Not because I couldn’t, but because I didn’t want him to know that I could.Silas followed behind us, pale, wide-eyed, trembling. He didn’t meet my gaze once. His fear burned in the air, thick and metallic.Avel sat on the edge of the bed, chest rising and falling as though he’d run up twenty flights of stairs.“Lyria,” he whispered, “you’re not safe out there. You’re not safe anywhere except with me.”I stood in the center of the room, shadows curling around my ankles like mist.“You’re trying to cage me.”Avel shook his head instantly, stepping toward me.“No. I’m trying to keep you from hurting someone. Or yourself.”“Hurting?” My voice was too calm. Cold.Silas swallowed audibly.“You nearly fed on Silas,” Avel said softly.I blinked.“Did I?”His jaw clenched.“You reached for my throat.”“And you stopped me,” I said.“Barely.”Silas whispered, “She wasn’t herself.”I
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-16
Chapter: Chapter 62: THE SOUND OF BREAKING CHAINS
Avel held me against his chest as though the world were tearing apart.“Lyria—stay with me—please—don’t give in—don’t leave—”But the hunger was no longer a whisper. It was a roar. It burned through me, rattling my bones, turning every heartbeat in the room into music, into temptation, into heat.Avel felt me tense. He tightened his arms around my waist.“Breathe—breathe for me—”“I can’t,” I gasped. “I can’t—Avel—I’m—”He cupped the back of my head.“Don’t fight alone. Let me help you.”I turned in his grip. He stilled. The hunger had changed my eyes. I saw it in his reflection in the window behind him.Black.Avel inhaled sharply. “Lyria…”I reached for his throat on instinct. In need. He grabbed my wrist gently.“No. Not me. Not like this.”“Why not you?” I whispered.His breath shuddered. “Because if you taste me now, my hunger would wake too,” he whispered. “And I have spent centuries burying it. If I let it rise again—if I let myself want the way I used to—”He broke off, voice
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-16
Chapter: Chapter 61: WHICH WAY TO TURN
I jerked back into my body so violently Avel barely caught me before I hit the floor. His arms wrapped around me, trembling.“Lyria—Lyria—Sweetheart—breathe—please breathe—”I s*ck*d air into my lungs as though they were coated in ice.My hands were shaking. My vision blurred.Avel pressed his forehead to mine, voice thick with fear.“What did you see?”I stared at him.At the man who fed me until dawn. At the man who nearly died to keep me alive. At the man who whispered confessions into my unconscious hair.“At the rafters,” I whispered, “I wasn’t dying once.”Avel’s breath halted.“I was dying all night.”His hands tightened.“You fed me again and again because you thought—”He looked down ashamed.“I thought you were gone.” His voice broke. “I thought I was losing you every hour.”My throat burned. “You never told me.”His eyes opened and the grief there nearly split me open.“I didn’t want you to hate me for saving you the wrong way.”Caelan's voice came through again. Silas stif
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-16
Chapter: Chapter 60: TEETH IN THE DARK
“Lyria,” he whispered, brushing hair from my face, “Tell me what happened with Silas.”“I didn’t mean to—”“I know,” he said quickly, voice raw. “You stopped yourself.”A beat.“Why did you stop?”I blinked.Avel’s voice softened into something fragile. “You could have fed from him. But you didn’t. Why?”I swallowed. “I don't know.”Silas turned away, guilt and terror mixing on his face. Avel rose suddenly and crossed the room to him.“Silas,” he said quietly, “Show me your wrist.”Silas held it out hesitantly. Avel inspected the skin—unbroken. Then he sagged with relief and pulled Silas briefly into his chest.“You were brave,” Avel whispered fiercely. “And incredibly stupid. But brave.”Silas stiffened, startled. He didn’t return the embrace. He stepped back quickly.“I’m not brave,” he murmured, avoiding my eyes. “I’m…scared for her.”Avel stiffened.Silas’ voice cracked. “And scared of her.”Avel flinched as if Silas had struck him. I looked down. Silas saw my expression and wince
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-16
Chapter: Chapter 59: LOCKED DOORS DO NOT HOLD ME
Avel carried me from the stage as if the entire opera house were made of knives.His breath trembled. His pulse hammered against my cheek. He held me like I was a burning coal and he was refusing to let go even as it seared him.Silas ran behind us.“Is she—? Avel, she’s not breathing right!”“She’s overwhelmed,” Avel snapped. “Too many heartbeats. Too many scents.”He didn’t stop until he reached the far wing. Avel kicked the door open and laid me gently on the couch inside.Silas shut the door behind us. Avel turned the key. The lock clicked.Something cold tightened in my chest.“Avel?” My voice shook—unfamiliar, sharp.He knelt in front of me, taking my face in both hands.“Sweetheart,” he whispered, “I need you to stay here.”My stomach dropped.“Stay? Alone?”“For now,” he said, brushing his thumbs over my cheekbones. “Just until I calm the others. They’re terrified.”Silas swallowed. “Terrified of her.”Avel shot him a glare that could have frozen steel.But I heard it.Like a
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-01-16
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