MasukThis wasn’t the first time Raven had done this.He lay amidst the toys scattered across the glass floor.A dark wooden casket toppled on its side, as though emptied and discarded in a hurry.A chessboard and its glass pieces, roughly mended with tape and glue.A black cat plushie, its limbs and neck
The closer I got to it, the denser the plants became. If it weren’t for the marble flooring and the intricate architectural designs woven throughout the moss walls and the arched ceiling running along them, I would have believed I was walking through a rainforest.The fairies stopped near the rain f
I feared that one day Ezra would find the truth and hate me. I feared that even though Raven said I wasn’t to blame, he would blame me like he did in the bunker, and eventually his hidden hatred would come out.And when that happened…My life with them would be worse than it had been at Virgo Palace
[Xanthea](TW: Self-harm. Reader’s discretion advised.)***Zxlorthon perched on my shoulder. A soft, melodic zip of thunder, and I was standing in the foyer of the Pheles Palace.I glanced at the arched window, and my heart ached with nostalgia.The last time I was here, this place had been stra
I rose from my chair, but Ruhna stopped me before I could even think of getting close to him.Raven strode toward the Pheles Palace, his form faltering into translucency with every step until he merged with the air just before crossing Azum’s barrier.The mate bond was like a serpent coiled in my ch
[Xanthea]We sat with those words, letting the weight of every moment I had spent with Asher spear me with the realization that he was preparing to leave for good.Asher had spent decades constructing a future in which everyone else survived—everyone but him.The desires that Ruhna had concealed so







