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Chapter Five.1
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2026-06-15 02:03:05
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Ember leaned back against the door, breathing through her nose, counting until her pulse stopped trying to escape her chest. The room was dark, spare, neat in that unmistakably Ghost way, bed made, blankets folded with military precision, everything orderly like it had been prepared for an emergency that hadn’t been named. The restless awareness stirred again, low and insistent.She squeezed her eyes shut.Sleep.Just sleep.Nothing else.Outside, the storm raged. Inside, the walls held—for now and Ghost stayed where he was. Which somehow made it harder. The door clicked shut behind her, and Ember stood there for a long second, back pressed to the wood, breathing like someone who’d just run uphill through a storm instead of… walked ten steps. The room was dim, neat and quiet. Her pulse was not.She pushed off the door and crossed the space in three steps, dropping onto the edge of the bed like gravity had opinions. The mattress dipped under her, soft in a way that irritated her on pr
How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It) Chapter Five.2
EMBERThe apartment was dim and warm when Ember slipped out of the bathroom, the candlelight soft enough to blur the edges of the storm outside. The air still smelled faintly of steam, citrus from her shampoo, and—annoyingly—Ghost.Mostly Ghost.He stood in the kitchen, broad shoulders haloed by the flicker of a single candle he’d set on the counter. His head was bent slightly as he checked the breaker box or pretended to. Ember got the impression he’d finished that task a while ago and was now… waiting. Making sure she didn’t fall apart between the bathroom and the hallway, probably. His gaze lifted the moment she stepped into view.It hit her like a physical thing.His eyes dropped automatically, not in a rude way, but in a startled, slow-burning way, taking in the oversized shirt hanging halfway down her thighs, still warm from her body heat and the shower. Ember’s fingers immediately fumbled with the hem, twisting it, tugging it lower, doing absolutely nothing to hide the fact tha
How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It) Chapter Five.1
EMBERThe steam followed her out like a slow, warm ghost, curling around her ankles as she stepped onto the bath mat. Ember pressed the towel to her face—not the fresh one Ghost had laid neatly on the counter, but the one hanging by the shower, the one that held the faint, lingering imprint of his scent. She hadn’t meant to grab that one. She definitely hadn’t meant to bury her face in it but the moment the cotton touched her skin, something inside her chest loosened in a way she didn’t have the discipline to examine. His scent was… steady. Clean. Warm—like cedar shavings and winter air and something grounding beneath it, something distinctly him. It wrapped around her senses before she could stop it. A breath shuddered out of her before she could bite it back.Pathetic.Absolutely pathetic.She rubbed the towel over her arms, over her shoulders, slower than strictly necessary. Awareness hummed beneath her skin—heat gathering low, rising slowly, collecting behind her sternum in a way
How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It) Chapter Four.2
GHOSTThe storm outside had turned vicious, wind slamming against the building hard enough to rattle the windows while thunder rolled in deep, layered waves beneath the floorboards. Rain battered the glass in relentless bursts that drowned out the quieter sounds of the apartment. Ember stood in the doorway like someone deciding whether to fight the storm or surrender to it, her body betraying her with every passing minute. Her breathing had grown uneven, and she kept touching her arms in small, restless movements that weren’t meant for him but that Ghost noticed anyway, cataloging each one.Her scent shifted again.Stronger, warmer, the kind of warmth that curled low in his spine and demanded he look away to preserve what little control he had left.He didn’t look away.But he didn’t step closer either.A bolt of lightning flashed across the windows, followed by a thunderclap sharp enough to rattle a picture frame on the far wall. Ember flinched, barely, but enough that Ghost saw her
How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It) Chapter Four.1
GHOSTEmber stared into his pantry as if it had personally wronged her, the neat rows of supplies standing in silent judgment of the turmoil she refused to name. She wasn’t rummaging or grabbing anything, just standing there with her shoulders tight and her jaw clenched, breathing a little too fast for someone who claimed she was coping just fine with the storm and everything else the night had dumped on her. Ghost stayed where he was, rooted by the far counter with deliberate distance, not because he didn’t want to be closer, but because the desire to close that gap was already burning too hot, too insistent for comfort. He already knew what she was going to take before her hand even lifted. The same snack she always bought. The one she complained about while eating the entire bag anyway. The one he kept stocked for no reason he could ever admit out loud. She hovered over it, fingers twitching with indecision that had nothing to do with hunger. “…Couch is fine,” she muttered under he
How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It) Chapter Three.3
EMBERThunder rolled again outside, distant but heavy, vibrating through the bones of the building. Without light, every sound sharpened: rain battering the windows, wind screaming along the exterior walls, the faint settling groan of stressed beams overhead. And then there was her body, too warm,too awake. The scotch still burned low in her veins, but it wasn’t enough anymore, not with adrenaline spiking, not with fear crawling under her skin, not with Ghost pressed close enough that every point of contact felt magnified. Her skin prickled where he touched her.Not unpleasant.Not at all.Just… intense.The air smelled different now, dust and plaster and something sweet-sharp curling underneath it all. Something that made her stomach tighten and her thighs instinctively draw closer together.Oh. No.Her pulse kicked hard. This wasn’t normal.Her heat wasn’t just circling anymore. It was closing in, fast and insistent, shoved forward by stress and storm and the sheer wrongness of bein
How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It) Chapter Three.1
EMBEREmber felt him behind her before she heard him move, that steady, too-controlled presence that somehow made the room feel smaller even though he wasn’t doing anything except existing, which, frankly, was its own kind of inconvenience. She wrapped the blanket tighter around herself as though s
How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It) Chapter One
EMBER Ember’s breath came in sharp, uneven bursts as heat flooded through her skin, making the tangled sheets around her feel suffocatingly tight against her flushed body. The loft lay shrouded in darkness, save for the neon glow that bled through the rain-streaked windows, casting erratic shadow
How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It) Chapter Three.2
EMBERNot a roll this time, but an explosive crack that shook the apartment hard enough to rattle the lights and punch the breath clean out of her lungs. The floor jolted. Something above them groaned, wood complaining in a language too old to argue with. Ghost moved instantly. He shifted his stanc
How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It) Chapter Two
GHOST The ceiling didn’t fail all at once, unraveling instead with a series of ominous warnings that Ghost registered in his bones long before the visible damage appeared—the deep, grinding complaint echoing through the building’s framework, a structural protest against the relentless assault of
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