LOGINHey guys!
(This hiatus notice was posted on 1st March 2025, but was drafted due to leaving my details)
I know last month has been crazy, and the updates for this book have been quite inconsistent. I planned to rush to the finish line and end the book in four or so chapters because of various changes around me that make that the best available option for me.
However, a few days ago, GN updated their author benefits in a way that enables me to take an indefinite leave (Meaning I don't know when I’ll return) and return to the book when I am ready. Where the book was to end would have left a strand of loose ends, kind of like my typical bonuses for those familiar, and that doesn't sit right with me—I mean, isn’t it sexy when powerful men grovel for their obsessions once a few things click into place?
So, as frustrating as this is, it’s where I’m at. I’m sorry for the abruptness.
Possible questions.
Will you ‘really’ come back to finish the book? I would LOVE to finish Act 3. I looove ‘yandere’ (obsessive) MLs, but I am not in the correct headspace for this 'kind' of book right now.
Will you remain active on GN? Of course! I love this app; it’s very author-friendly, so any new book I write will eventually be here! Think of this as a long, selfish break.The new information as of the 3rd of February is as follows:
Instead of Act 3, I will write Book 2. I know my break stretched longer than I wanted, but it was necessary, your girl did not feel creative and creativity comes from a place of freedom, mental peace and maaan.... anyway, Because GN has implemented a system where 6 months without updates results in a waiver of bonuses, I am unfortunately certain that the quality of my writing will be affected, so rather than rush and ruin Act 3/ the ending that you have all been waiting for, this is the solution I have come up with. If the book isn't accepted for one reason or another, I will find a way around it, even if it's adding it as a bonus to any potential new stories, while still giving it its grace and length (but I strongly believe this story should have its own spotlight, so book 2 is more likely). Sorry for all this, and thank you so much for your comments, patience and requests that the book continue.
For now, I will request that this book be marked as complete.
Final Edit (6th Feb)
My editor and I reached an agreement, and so the book shall continue until its completion 🎉
Niklaus, clearly understanding the situation before me, pulls out my chair, waits until I settle and takes the seat beside me. Anna watches the entire thing with amusement.“How domestic.”She comments with her hand dancing around her wine glass.“Why are you here?”Niklaus asks as he settles beside me.For a second, she squirms in her seat before turning her gaze away, as if she hadn’t heard the question.“We are discussing the future of this family. Anna has every reason to be present.”Elias, Niklaus’s father, answers on her behalf.“My medical information has nothing to do with Anna.”I add.“That is one part of tonight’s discussion.”Elias answers.A servant moves to pour wine into my glass, hesitates and offers water instead. I nod my thanks before turning back to the table.“What is the other part?”Anna wipes the corner of her mouth with her napkin.“Succession.”I should have guessed.“What about it?”“The announcement of your pregnancy created a great deal of excitement.”Sh
“Niklaus.”I say his name automatically, already prepared to smooth things over.Maya didn’t mean it. She was nervous. She panicked. She has always grabbed when she gets upset… always.I stare at the blood coming through my sleeve.How many times has this been now?A worse question follows before I can stop it.How many times did I realise she’s hurting me and decide it didn’t count because she was Maya?My little sister.Hah…Are we even siblings anymore, or am I still standing in a role she already abandoned?“Luci.”Her voice changes.For the first time tonight, she sounds like herself.“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you.”“I know.”Relief touches her expression too quickly.“But I have an emergency, Maya, so let me be as neat as you.”Her face changes.I take my phone back from Niklaus and slide my other hand into his.“I’m leaving. With my husband. We have an emergency to handle, but we will be there for the wedding.”I say, bow and start to move.“Niklaus.”I call when he gla
Maya is being nice to me, which is normally the first sign something is wrong.“Luci, try this.”She lifts a small pastry from the silver tray passing between us and places it directly on my plate before I can tell her that I am already eating.“You’ve barely touched anything.”She adds on when I eat something other than what she has served me in the ‘meet the in-laws’ gathering Niklaus insisted we attend.“I’ve eaten enough.”I say because even Niklaus keeps giving me food. Since when did I become a baby bird?Her smile remains perfectly pleasant.But that could have also been because of the gifts we walked in with: flowers for Vincenzo’s mother, an expensive bottle of scotch for his father, wine older than Maya and an engagement gift Niklaus’s secretary selected himself.She gestures with her eyes that I should eat what she has given me, despite my full comment, and when she doesn’t relent, I take a small bite.“Mm… it's good.”Ugh, I don’t like powdered sugar.“Really? I'm so glad
The bathroom door clicks shut, and I step out. The hotel towel is soaked at the hem and dripping onto the carpet.The room looks… different.The table is in the centre. I remember dragging it against the wall to get it out of the way, but now it's in the middle, and it's covered in food.I didn't order anything. A bottle sits in an ice bucket, sweating condensation onto the coaster.The TV is on. The opening credits are running, a noir-looking show if I'm not wrong.The cushions are off the couch, scattered on the floor like someone was supposed to sit among them."What's this?"I ask, running a smaller towel through my hair.Niklaus is on the edge of the couch, in just his pyjama bottoms."My Luci isn't in the mood for a date."He says."So I asked the front desk to bring date things here.""Right."I say with a short laugh, because I don't know what to do with the scene in front of me.Niklaus turns to me then gestures to the food."Eat."It's only when he says this that I feel the
Maya's cup rattles when she sets it down. The ring of it against the saucer runs a second longer than it should. She flattens her hand over the rim to stop it, and the ring is gone.There is nothing but a pale band on her finger where the ring Niklaus had given her sat for years. Not even her new engagement ring from the man she loves ‘with all her heart’."Will you attend, or not?"She asks, cutting through every emotional process I was going through.Love my ass, there is nothing soft about her gaze."Attend as your brother or as Lucien Heinrich?"She swallows.Her eyes go past me to the window, out at the park across the road with its greying grass and its bandstand nobody uses."Everyone knows you're a Heinrich now."A scoff gets out of me before I can stop it.How is she always this disappointing?My head rests on the backrest of my chair."Answer?"She presses, and I sigh."Yeah. Sure, Maya. I'll be there."She stands, takes her bag off the seat, and looks down at me from the en
The shower is already running when I wake up fully.It cuts off while I'm still sitting on the edge of the bed, and the bathroom door opens, allowing Niklaus to come out with a towel knotted at his hip and water dripping off his hair onto his shoulders.Steam follows him into the room and hangs there, grey on grey.He crosses to the wardrobe without looking at me and takes out a shirt, lays it flat on the bed, then the jacket, then the trousers, one piece at a time.His scent is no longer dominantly mine.What the hell...Why do I keep... ugh-To distract myself from my thoughts, I go around the room collecting last night’s clothes scattered on the floor before the maid calls us down for breakfast.The marks on my ribs have gone a deeper pink overnight. There is also a new one low on my hip, over the bone, that aches when I bend."I'm leaving the estate today."I say as I move busily.Niklaus has one leg in his trousers. He stops, then finishes. As if he only needed the break to plan
The pale blue eyes that seem to stare into my soul widen in surprise before another, more sinister emotion covers them."My Luci..."The words are spoken in a deep and low murmur.‘My’? Did he just say… ‘my Luci?’As if mocking my surprise, Heinrich drops the body he dragged on the floor with a lou
"Niklaus Heinrich?"I yell the name as the door to the chief's office swings open.As usual, the chief isn't at his desk but holding a mini-golf club, playing with the track set up in his office.The chief’s face lights up at my presence, but I am far from happy with this interaction."Niklaus Heinr
"Your alpha?"I repeat the words that were thrown at me so carelessly; if it wasn’t for the tears teetering in her eyes, I would have pushed her body aside and walked to a hotel.What the hell does she mean by her alpha? I almost died on the day I fought Heinrich after he betrayed me.He was my forc
Niklaus Heinrich‘Disgusting.’That was the first thought to fill Niklaus's head as he passed Lucien's sister, whose desperate green eyes watched his frame as he returned to the car."Nik...Nikky!"She called to him using his nickname, a nickname that he had only permitted Lucien to use, but he nev







