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Fractured Crown

Author: K. Lyn Leigh
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-08-24 22:10:00

Therrin's POV

The clearing was hushed—like the world itself was holding its breath.

Therrin lay on the forest floor, the damp moss a cool balm against her back. Her dress was askew, tangled in dew-laced grass, her skin kissed by fading moonlight and bruised shadows. The silence wasn't empty. It pulsed. As if the forest remembered what had just transpired. As if the air itself had been changed by it.

She lifted her hand, fingers trembling—not from shame, not from fear.

The tingling at her wrists, her hips, the curve of her throat… it lingered. Not ghostly. Not painful. No, it was a memory carved in pleasure. Ciaran's touch still shimmered on her skin like frost kissed by fire.

And for the first time, she didn't want to wash it away.

She curled her hand into a fist, then uncurled it again. This is mine now. The craving. The surrender. The twisted hunger. It belonged
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