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ONLY I GET TO HURT YOU

Author: Wren Gray
last update publish date: 2026-09-01 19:17:40

TAMARA.

Pain. That was the first thing I felt, before anything else had the chance to register, before fear or confusion could even find a foothold. Just pain, everywhere at once, spreading through me in waves that made it hard to tell where one ache ended and the next began.

My ribs felt like they had been crushed under something heavy. My throat burned every single time I tried to drag in a breath, and something deep inside my skull throbbed so violently that I couldn't even open my eyes with
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  • THE VEILED BRIDE    WHERE IS SHE?

    KIVAI stared up at him, unable to look away."The only reason I didn't completely lose my goddamn mind when everything started falling apart…" He tapped his chest once, right over his heart. "Was you." Another tap. "This." His voice broke on the last word. "This thing only beats for you."I placed my hand over his where it rested against his chest."Only you."He pressed my hand harder against him."You give it life."I could feel his heartbeat beneath my palm, strong and fast and unmistakably alive. My eyes filled completely, spilling over."I know."He stared at me, something pleading in his expression now."I am sorry."His expression softened at that."I had no choice."I squeezed his hand tighter."I only had time to save Tamara."He closed his eyes for a moment, like the memory itself hurt to hold onto."I didn't know where we were going. I didn't know what Catherine was going to do. I didn't know the Shadow World would collapse."I swallowed hard."I never thought any of that

  • THE VEILED BRIDE    YOU COMPLETE ME

    KIVADarkness. That was the first thing I felt, pressing in around me before anything else could reach me.Then warmth, slow and gentle, spreading in from somewhere close by. A hand around mine, holding on tight enough that I could feel it even through the fog still clouding my mind. Something soft beneath my head. And a familiar scent that settled something deep in my chest before I even knew why.Damien.I breathed in slowly, testing it, and my chest ached with the effort. Everything ached, honestly, every part of me protesting at once. But I was breathing. That much I was sure of.I opened my eyes. The ceiling above me swam in and out of focus, blurry and strange, like I was looking at it through water. I blinked, once, then twice, forcing my vision to settle. Then I turned my head, slow and careful, toward the warmth beside me.He was there.Damien sat beside the bed, his elbows resting against his knees, his head lowered like the weight of it had become too much to hold up. His h

  • THE VEILED BRIDE    BETWEEN WORLDS

    KIVA. My heart clenched painfully. There I was, walking down the aisle in white, my hands trembling with nerves I remembered too well. Damien stood at the end, waiting for me. He was watching me the way he always did, like nothing else in the world existed.The expression on his face was one I would never forget.Love. Raw. Terrifying. Absolute. I watched myself reach him. I watched him take my hand in both of his. I watched him lean in and whisper something against my ear that I couldn't quite catch.I stepped closer, straining to hear."What did you say?"The memory repeated itself. His lips moved. I still couldn't hear him.I reached toward him, my hand passing through empty air. "Damien."Nothing. I watched the memory of us exchange vows, watched him slide the ring onto my finger, watched myself smile through happy tears. Then I saw the kiss, the way his hands cradled my face like I was something fragile and precious, the way he looked at me afterward like I was the only thing in

  • THE VEILED BRIDE    WHERE AM I?

    KIVAThere was no pain.No burning. No crushing darkness. No screaming shadows. No blood. No fear. Nothing at all, like every sensation I'd ever known had simply been switched off.I opened my eyes and found myself standing in the middle of a field. I frowned, confused by how wrong it all felt despite looking so ordinary. The sky above me was pale blue, almost too perfect, the kind of blue that didn't exist in real weather. White clouds floated lazily across it, and the grass beneath my bare feet moved gently with a breeze I couldn't quite feel against my skin. I looked around, searching for anything familiar, anything that made sense."Where am I?"My voice sounded strange. Distant. Like I was hearing myself from underwater, the words arriving a half-second too late. I lifted my hands and stared at them. They were there. I could see them. I could move them. I touched my face and found it warm. Then I touched my chest, pressing my palm flat against it, and felt nothing.My brows pulled

  • THE VEILED BRIDE    I AM COMING FOR YOU

    DAMIENI kissed her forehead gently, lingering there."I'm coming for you."The priestess watched all of this in silence, giving me the space to say it.I stayed beside Kiva for what felt like hours after that, though I couldn't have told you how much time actually passed. I talked to her the entire time. About everything I could think of. About us, about the first time she'd looked at me like she genuinely wanted to kill me, and how even then something in me hadn't wanted to look away. About the first time I'd realized I couldn't stay away from her no matter how hard I tried. About our wedding day. About the life we had only just begun building together, still unfinished, still so new.I told her things I had never once said out loud to anyone. Things I had buried under years of anger and pride, things I'd never let myself admit even to myself."I love you." My voice broke completely on the words. "I don't know if you can hear me, but I love you."Inside the darkness surrounding her,

  • THE VEILED BRIDE    BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH

    DAMIEN.The Shadow World was dying around us, collapsing piece by piece into whatever waited beneath it. And for the first time in my entire life, I didn't give a single damn about what happened to it. All I cared about was the woman lying still in my arms."Kiva."Her head rested against my chest, her body frighteningly still beneath my hands. I couldn't feel her breathing against me. Couldn't hear even the faintest sound of her heartbeat. Nothing at all. Just silence, thick and unbearable.My fingers tightened around her instinctively."No."I pressed my palm against her cheek, needing to feel something, anything. Cold. Too fucking cold for someone who was supposed to still be here with me."Kiva, baby, wake up."Nothing answered me.I had carried her through the entire collapsing Shadow World, through falling pieces of darkness and screaming shadows that reached for both of us, refusing to let any of it touch her even once. I had survived the collapse myself, walked through the wor

  • THE VEILED BRIDE    "DON'T GO"

    “THE DREAMS WE CANNOT CONTROL ALREADY OWNS US”DAMIEN (HADES) POVI am in the dream again, and I always know I'm dreaming the moment it starts, but that never gives me control over it because it just means I'm aware enough to suffer through it properly.It begins in silence, not a peaceful silence

  • THE VEILED BRIDE    YES OR NO?

    “ ALLOW YOURSELF TO SHINE WITHOUT BEING SEEN” KIVA POV.He looked at me for a moment like he was deciding how much to say."The Decaulion," he said.I went still.The name alone did that. Even to someone like me, someone who had spent most of her life looking down rather than up at the structures

  • THE VEILED BRIDE    SANDALWOOD. RAIN. HOME.

    "The thing about being loved by the right person is that it doesn't feel like anything you were warned about. It feels like finally exhaling."KIVA POV.For a second I could only stare at him. Fabian stood near the library doors holding a bouquet of white lilies and dark red roses in one hand while

  • THE VEILED BRIDE    "SWEET PEA"

    KIVA POV. "Some people are handed a life. Others are handed a mop and told to be grateful for the floor."I had learned a long time ago that the trick to surviving dinner in this house was to become invisible.Not invisible in the way people mean when they say they just want to blend in, not that

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