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What Comes After Survival
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Surrendered Desires Wanted to Hate You Longer
Ariana’s POV I didn’t go far.Just down the block, to the little rooftop garden above the café where I used to journal when Daniel worked late and I needed air. Funny how it came back to that place. Full circle. I sat with a bottle of water and my phone off, watching the city glitter and hum beneath me like it didn’t care who was heartbroken or healing or somewhere in between. I tried to breathe.But every time I exhaled, his voice came back.// “It was Daniel.”Like a detonator. Like he’d said the one name that still lived under my skin like shrapnel. I had imagined so many reasons Luca might’ve left me. Fear. Immaturity. A sudden loss of love. But never this. Never that he was warned. Never that Daniel had orchestrated it all. And what stung the most? That Luca hadn’t told me. Not after one year.Not after five. Not even when he came back. He waited until I forced him to. And now I didn’t know whether to cry… Or burn the whole truth down.I stayed on the rooftop until the sun dippe
Surrendered Desires What It Took to Return
Luca’s POVThey say time heals all wounds. That’s a lie. Time doesn’t heal. It hides. It buries. It teaches you how to function with pain tucked into the folds of your spine, how to smile while bleeding inside, how to explain away nightmares like bad sleep and heartbreak like coincidence.But healing? Healing is a choice. And it’s loud. Messy. Exhausting. I didn’t begin healing the day I left Ariana.I began healing the day I realized I had become the man Daniel said I would be — the one who stayed gone. And that broke me more than any threat ever could.For years after I disappeared, I chased art like it was oxygen. I moved across Europe, photographing shadows instead of people.Graffiti. Old stairwells. Shattered windows. I told myself it was “urban contrast.” But the truth was simpler. I was only drawn to the things that looked ruined.Because I saw myself in them. I told myself Ariana had moved on. Told myself she had probably married someone better. Safer. And when I found out sh
Surrendered Desires The Summer Before the Silence
Luca’s POVFifteen Years Ago – The BeginningThe summer I met Ariana Cole, I was broke, sunburnt, and convinced I didn’t believe in fate. I had just lost a contract with a media startup in Florence and was squatting in a borrowed beach shack on the southern coast, doing low-budget photography gigs for tourists and wedding guests with names I couldn’t pronounce. I was 22, hungry, and angry at everything.Then she walked into the café across from the pier — high ponytail, bare shoulders, notebook in one hand, camera in the other — and ordered a hot tea in the middle of a 34-degree afternoon. I laughed without meaning to. She turned, looked at me like I’d interrupted a sacred ritual, and said, “What?”I pointed to the steam rising from her cup. “You’re drinking fire.” She smirked. “Maybe I’m built for it.”I didn’t know it then, but that was the beginning of everything. Not just the love. The undoing.The rewriting. The quiet war we didn’t see coming.*****We spent the next few weeks l
Surrendered Desires Luca’s Story Begins
Luca’s POVFifteen Years Ago — Summer. It’s strange how a single moment can divide your life into before and after. For me, it was a phone call.It came late—past midnight—while Ariana slept curled beside me on that motel bed we had rented with cash from my last freelance job. Her hair smelled like sea salt and vanilla lotion. Her breathing was steady. And I had just whispered I love you against her shoulder minutes before. Then my phone buzzed. Unknown number. I should’ve ignored it. I should’ve stayed in that moment, pressed my face into her skin, and promised her again that I wasn’t going anywhere. But I answered. And everything after that became after.*****The voice on the other end was low. Measured. He didn’t give a name. He didn’t need to./ “Luca. You care about her?”I sat up slowly, my body already tense.“Who the hell is this?”A pause. Then:/“If you want Ariana Cole to live the life she deserves, you’ll leave her. Tonight. No notes. No explanation.”My blood chilled.“Y
Surrendered Desires The Memory That Refused to Die
Ariana’s POVThere are stories that live at the bottom of you. The kind you bury so deep, even your dreams forget how to find them. Until one day—something quiet, something subtle—pulls at the thread. And everything unravels. For me, it was the smell of smoke. Not fire. Not danger. Just burnt cinnamon on the stove. Luca had overtoasted breakfast again. I laughed. He apologized. I waved it off. But the scent… It took me back fifteen years. Back to a different kind of heat. To a beach. To a boy. To the only goodbye that ever shattered me completely.I hadn’t thought about that day in so long. Not the details. Not fully. I had talked around it in therapy. Hinted at it in my journal. But I had never let myself go back. Not fully.Not until now. Luca noticed the way I froze. His eyes narrowed slightly. “You okay?” I nodded. But my voice didn’t come out. Because memory was already clawing at me. Insisting. And I couldn’t run from it this time. So I let it take me.Back to the summer I met th
Surrendered Desires His Kingdom of Quiet
Ariana’s POVDaniel’s silence used to feel like a wall. Now it felt like a grave. Not of a man — but of an image. The polished version of him that he built carefully and protected viciously. It was falling apart, piece by piece. And this time, he wasn’t spinning the story. He wasn’t posting carefully-worded statements. He wasn’t sitting on podcasts pretending to be evolved. He had disappeared, from Luxe, from media, from relevance. But I knew better than to think he was gone. Men like Daniel didn’t disappear.They regrouped. They calculated. They waited for the world to calm down, so they could sneak back in with a new mask. But this time, I was the one controlling the narrative.Two days after the story broke, Evelyn called with a sharpness in her voice that instantly made me stand.“The Luxe board finalized their vote.”I held my breath.“He’s out.”Just like that. No warning. No grace period. No final speech to the team. “Effective immediately, Daniel Cole has stepped down from h
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