로그인It had been three whole years since I walked into that hotel with the intention of taking over a company I knew almost nothing about, only to walk out of it engaged to a god I had spent an entire year desperately waiting for.Sometimes I still thought about how ridiculous the whole thing sounded.If someone had told me five years ago that I would become the CEO of GnG, reunite with my father, become responsible for two children, fall in love with a god, get engaged in front of an entire room of people and eventually end up wearing a one-hundred-million-dollar diamond ring, I would have laughed in their face.Actually, I probably would have asked them what they were smoking.But somehow, that became my life.And looking back now, I couldn't even recognize the woman I used to be.I glanced down at my left hand, where the ring still sat proudly on my finger. I remembered the night Damian proposed like it had happened yesterday. The flowers. The crowd. My father's ridiculous smile. The wa
"So how did you return?" I asked, still trying to understand how any of this had happened. It was one thing to have Damian standing in front of me again, wearing that familiar smile and holding me like he had never left. It was another thing to realize that there had apparently been an entire supernatural battle happening somewhere beyond my understanding while I had been here trying to keep his company from collapsing on my head. Damian leaned back against the cushion and looked at me for a moment before answering. "Well, it turned out your Damian is a reliable one." I raised an eyebrow. "That's a very confident way to describe yourself." He smiled. "I'm simply stating facts." "Of course you are." He chuckled before his expression slowly became serious again. "After that day you came, I was furious." "The day I came to see you?" He nodded. "Yes. I was already angry about being unable to reach you, but Velmora's response made everything worse. I couldn't understand how she co
"Dare me," I said, looking up at him.For a second, Damian simply stared at me, and the corner of his mouth lifted into that familiar, almost arrogant smile."Look at who has gotten much bolder."Before I could respond, his lips crashed against mine.I barely had time to process what was happening before I instinctively wrapped my arms around him. The kiss carried everything we hadn't been able to say for the past year. The anger, the longing, the relief, the love, the frustration of being apart for so long. It was almost unfair how easily he could make me forget every angry speech I had rehearsed in my head during the year he was gone.When we finally pulled apart, I was breathless."I still hate when you do that," I muttered."You've always been terrible at lying."I rolled my eyes, but I couldn't stop smiling.Some time later, I found myself sitting comfortably on his lap on the large cushion by the window, my head resting against his chest while his arm remained wrapped securely a
The rest of the evening continued as though I hadn't just agreed to marry a god.People went right back to drinking, laughing, chatting and dancing as if someone hadn't just proposed to me in the middle of a room full of people. Music filled the hotel, glasses clinked, and every few minutes someone came over to congratulate me.I was still trying to process the fact that I was wearing Damian's ring.I kept looking down at my hand, almost expecting the diamond to disappear.I was engaged.To Damian Blackthorn.A god.Honestly, my life had officially gone beyond anything I could explain to a normal person.At some point, my father started introducing me to several of his business partners. Apparently, he had decided that my birthday was the perfect opportunity to casually announce his retirement."I'm getting old," he told one of them with a laugh.The man immediately burst out laughing. "Old? You're not even old enough to retire."Another one joined in. "Exactly. You're still too young
He was standing there, staring at me.For a moment, neither of us moved.I could barely hear the music anymore. The voices around me seemed to fade into a distant hum, as though someone had turned down the volume of the entire room. All I could see was him.Damian.After a whole year.A whole year of wondering where he was. A whole year of waking up and reaching for a man who wasn't there. A whole year of staring at his side of the bed and pretending that the emptiness didn't hurt. A whole year of running his company while secretly wishing he would walk through the doors and tell me that I could finally stop carrying everything.And now he was standing right in front of me.He looked at me for a few seconds before slowly walking toward me. The bouquet of flowers was still in his hand, and there was something almost nervous about the way he approached me that I had never seen in him before.When he finally stood in front of me, he held out the flowers."Happy birthday, Nanya."That was
"Dad, you know this man?" I asked, looking from him to the hotel behind him and then back at his face. There was something about the way he had been acting since we arrived that made me suspicious. He had been unusually quiet, almost like he knew something I didn't, and knowing my father, that was never a good sign. He only smiled and gave me a look that somehow managed to make me even more suspicious. "Well... maybe," he replied casually. I narrowed my eyes at him. "Come on, Dad. You're being dramatic." He chuckled and shook his head. "Then let's go inside." I followed him, still confused, wondering why he was acting like he had some grand secret he was determined to keep from me. The moment we stepped through the doors of the hotel, however, everything changed. The lights suddenly went off for a brief second before flashing back on, and the next thing I heard was a deafening pop followed by several more. I jumped in surprise, my hand instinctively flying to my chest as colorful
By the time I dragged myself out of work, I was a walking corpse. The café had chewed me up and spit me out, the boss glaring holes through me every time I breathed too loud, and customers treating me like Siri with legs. My whole body ached. My brain begged for sleep. But the mark on my wrist b
The morning sunlight attacked me like it had been waiting all night for this exact moment. Right through my thin curtains, stabbing me in the face like I’d personally offended the sun. I groaned and rolled over, pulling the blanket over my head. Not today. Please not today. But the second I shut m
I hated nights like this.... You know... The type where everything goes wrong and life feels like it is laughing at you. My feet hurt from standing all day, my head pounded from my boss yelling at me like I was his personal stress ball, and my phone battery had decided to give up on life before I
As if the name unleashed something in me, I was immediately overpowered by a flood of emotions I couldn’t even separate properly. First, fear. Cold. Sharp. Immediate. Then Something else. Courage. It was Strange, unfamiliar. But there. I turned to him slowly, my brows pulling together.







