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WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK CHAPTER 86

Author: MIKS DELOSO
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-07 23:26:29
The room's walls, though just too white, made Lily feel like she was spilling shadows into a picture that was never ever going to hold her. The throb behind her eyes was echoed in the slow and steady tick of the clock. The faintest hum of the heater was the only warmth she felt, and even that was at a distance—something recalled.

Dr. Anselm sat across from her, crossed legs, notebook shut. He wasn't writing. He wasn't talking. He was waiting. Observing.

Lily's fingers tapped the bracelet Helena had left behind—a grounding tool, she'd explained, silver with a red jasper bead for clarity. But clarity never arrived in the way people wanted. Not when your brain was a house haunted by someone else in your skin.

She's still here," Lily whispered, a mere sound like the hiss of the heater.

"Who?" Dr. Anselm drew in a gentle breath, her voice as soft as snowflakes falling.

"Ina."

Fluorescent lights above appeared to quiver, or not quiver, out of the need for a vision spinning on the tip of gras
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  • WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK   WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK CHAPTER 124

    It started subtly—just a few skipped meals, a bout of queasiness here and there. But when Lily found herself staring suspiciously at her morning croissant as if it were personally offending her, she knew something was off.She shoved the plate across the table. “No. No carbs today. Or ever. Maybe I’ll eat air.”Vandaulf, pajamas-clad with a sleepy Barkley curled on his lap, gazed up, partway through a bite. "Who hurt you, and why is it French pastry?"Lily rested her head on the table. "I don't know. Everything smells strange. The coffee smells like. betrayal. The soap smells like pickles. You smell like cinnamon.""That last one sounds like a compliment.""I loathe cinnamon."He blinked. "What?"She groaned. "I have no idea what's going on. I feel like a Disney princess who's been cursed, and not the one who sings. The one who goes spiraling-into-forest-madness kind." Barkley snorted in sympathy and leapt up onto the table to examine her croissant with intense interest.Vandaulf too

  • WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK   WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK CHAPTER 123

    The Carlston sunroom was now officially the headquarters of unsolicited matchmaking, unsolicited grandchild planning, and unsolicited life advice, all doled out to Lily and Vandaulf, who had had the tragic error of sitting down.Helena was sitting atop her flower throne, wafting herself cool with a dramatic use of a napkin. Brenna sat cross-legged on the couch with a clipboard she somehow produced out of thin air, pen clutched in her hand and glasses pushed to the end of her nose as if about to file a court complaint.Lily raised an eyebrow suspiciously at the clipboard. "What. is that?"Brenna clicked her pen. "A schedule.""A schedule for what?" Vandaulf blanched."For conceiving."Vandaulf gagged on his tea. "I—I beg your pardon?!"Helena grinned. "It's dubbed 'Operation: Grandchild.' Brenna and I have been brainstorming it since before you two exchanged vows.""We had a whiteboard," Brenna boasted.Lily's jaw dropped. "There's a whiteboard?""In my sewing room," replied Helena. "B

  • WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK   WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK CHAPTER 122

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  • WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK   WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK CHAPTER 121

    The sunlight seeped in slowly through the linen curtains—warm, golden, and languid. It bathed everything in warm, forgiving hues. Lily woke up for the first time in a long time without the weight of nightmares. No jolts. No screams muffled in her throat. Just breath. Steady. Real.She could sense the rising and falling of Vandaulf's chest even before she opened her eyes. He slept—his arm draped protectively over her waist, their legs entwined like vines. His face, too often tense with unsaid words, was relaxed now. Almost boyish in sleep.She remained motionless. Not yet.She noticed instead the lines of his jaw, the small scar alongside his right temple, the hardness and obstinacy of his mouth easing a little here in the quiet. There was something intimate about watching someone this vulnerable. No war. No heritage. Only skin and breathing and the man who had chosen her when he did not have to.Her fingers roamed upward, brushing a wayward strand of hair from his forehead.He moved,

  • WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK   WHERE LIGHT MEETS DARK CHAPTER 120

    She sat up and he quickly placed her on the lavish pillows, leaning over her form as he softly kissed her cheek and said, "Thank you my princess, but now it's my turn to pleasure you." She settled in and smiled as he softly kissed his way along her collarbone, his legs straddled to either side of her hips. Cupping his hand over each of her full breasts, he traced her nipples with his thumbs and he could feel her breathing become quicker as her chest rose and fell.He continued to kiss her chest until he drew one nipple into his mouth, sucking slowly and deeply upon it as he gripped her mounds, caressing her smooth skin softly. He eventually switched to suckle the other one and his hands traveled down her belly, danced upon her hips, and flew over her shiny thighs. Spur-of-the-moment, she opened her legs and he slid back in between them, kissing his way down her radiant belly the entire time.Then, his thumbs spread her wet lips apart, exposing her syrupy love spot. He wiggled the tip

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