All Chapters of How to Make a King (Even If You’re Really Not Into It): Chapter 1 - Chapter 2

EMBER Ember’s breath came in sharp, uneven bursts as heat flooded through her skin, making the tangled sheets around her feel suffocatingly tight against her flushed body. The loft lay shrouded in darkness, save for the neon glow that bled through the rain-streaked windows, casting erratic shadows across the walls. Outside, the city thrummed with its restless insomnia, the buzz of distant signs, the hiss of traffic slicing through wet streets, and faint music leaking from some apartment three floors below, yet none of it pierced the intimate bubble enveloping her. In that moment, all that existed was him: Ghost, his body hovering over hers like a broad, solid wall of quiet strength, pressing her into the mattress not as a cage but as an anchor, grounding her amidst the storm raging within.He fit against her too easily, as if the world had conspired to narrow itself down to this precise instant, leaving no room for anything else, no need for them to be anywhere but here. She was alr