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Faultline

Penulis: Bea Baum
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-05-04 16:37:40

VEX POV

The city looks different when you leave a room like that. Sharper. Like everything is already shifting beneath it.

Streetlights drag in long gold streaks across the tinted windows as we move through the dark. The engine hums low, controlled, powerful—steady in a way the world outside isn’t anymore.

Brynn sits in the passenger seat.

Kade’s in the back.

Same positions. Same silence.

But it’s not the same.

Not after tonight.

I rest my arm along the center console, my fingers brushing light
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  • Cage to Cage   Adapt

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  • Cage to Cage   Ours

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  • Cage to Cage   Six Months Later

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  • Cage to Cage   Sovereignty

    BRYNN POVI don’t go back to Vex’s room.I don’t even hesitate.Kade is still standing close to me when I ask him to stay, and when he says yes, something settles inside my chest.Not reckless.Not desperate.Certain.⸻His room feels different than Vex’s.Less polished. Less controlled.More him.The door closes quietly behind us, and for a moment neither of us move. The air shifts—thick with everything we’ve never allowed ourselves to touch.Kade exhales slowly.“If we do this,” he says, voice low, steady in that dangerous way he gets when he’s holding too much inside, “it’s because you’re choosing it. Choosing us. I step into him.“I’m not afraid,” I whisper.And that’s the truth.His hand finds my waist. Mine finds his collar.The kiss is different than Vex’s.Where Vex was restraint and reverence, Kade is heat held on a knife’s edge. Months—years—of self-denial breaking open in one breath.He kisses me like he’s memorizing me.Like he’s reclaiming something he thought he’d burie

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    BRYNN POVI barely sleep.Every time I drift off, a different memory slams into me—half-formed, jagged, wrong. By the time pale morning light slips through my curtains, my head feels too full and too empty at the same time.I shower, dress, and force myself downstairs.The air in the dining room is

  • Cage to Cage   Who Trained Brynn Tang?

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