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Watching him watch

Author: Riel
last update publish date: 2026-03-29 23:59:15

Zero.

The word doesn’t land. It detonates.

The room fractures into sound.

Howls rip through the ceiling. Glass clinks. Someone whoops loud enough to shake the chandeliers. The floor trembles beneath a hundred stamping feet.

Blue Moon.

And then the softer sounds begin.

Laughter folding into laughter.

Breath catching.

Fabric shifting.

The unmistakable hush of lips finding lips.

It’s tradition.

When the countdown ends, you kiss the person you want Moon to witness you with.

Claimed or not.

Mated or
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