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The second attempt settled properly. I smiled. Then began the inner edge. The flame would be last. It had to sit exactly between the wings or the entire crest would look as though the Draevyr had misplaced it. I worked until the lamp needed tending. Then longer. At some point I remembered my book. I looked toward the shelf. Lady Elianor could wait. That was concerning. I looked back at the favor. One wing was finished. The body nearly so. The second wing had only begun.

Boxes appeared from cupboards. Folders emerged from shelves. Sketchbooks surfaced from places she'd forgotten existed. Soon the living room floor disappeared beneath years of artwork. Sophie sat cross-legged among the chaos. "Wow." Jessica looked up. "What?" "You really don't see it, do you?" Jessica frowned. "See what?" Sophie held up a sketchbook. Pages filled with charcoal drawings. People. Faces. Emotion. Pain. Beauty. Stories. "You." Jessica laughed. "That's not me." "It absolutely is."

The sound of her crying had lodged itself somewhere deep beneath my ribs in a way I didn’t know how to remove. I wasn’t built to comfort people. I was built to destroy threats. Control outcomes and learn how to survive. Yet somehow, with her, my instincts kept shifting into something dangerous. Something softer. My eyes drifted to the sketchbook in her lap. The Shadow Collection had evolved again. The pieces were darker now. Sharper. Structured like armor while still moving with impossible elegance. Black silk layered with metallic threading. Emerald accents hidden beneath folds of fabric like concealed blades. Pain translated into art.

Adrian stood in the middle of them with his golden wings half-open, bright enough to fool anyone who had never seen the rot behind the light. In my last life, that face had fooled me for years. I had believed if I loved him hard enough, those proud wings would one day bend for me. In the end, he replaced my dragon-breath medicine with slow poison and let me die carrying his child, while my dragonfire went cold in my chest. So when he looked me over with familiar disgust, my heart did not even twitch. “What are you doing in my grandfather's palace again?” Adrian asked. “Trying to make Lord Alaric plead your case? Or are you here to remind everyone that your grandfather once saved his life on

I locked the front door, dimmed the overhead lights to just the warm glow of the reading lamps, and flipped the sign to *Closed* but didn't lock it. The shop smelled like old paper, cedar shelves, and the faint vanilla of the candle I’d lit earlier. I should have gone home. Should have poured wine, watched the ball drop on my tiny TV, toasted alone. Instead I lingered. I wandered to the back corner—the erotica section nobody ever asked for help finding. I pulled a slim volume from the top shelf: The Art of Surrender. The cover was black with gold lettering, no photo. Perfect. I sank into the worn velvet armchair tucked between the stacks, the one customers sometimes used to read a chapter be

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In stunning detail was an image of a werewolf, his monstrous member dangling between his legs as he jerked his load into the hungry mouth of a pair of women on the ground beneath him. "Wow." Mike inspected the outer cover, but there were no words on the book. Flipping through the pages, it was evident that the artist had a one track mind - werewolves fucking humans, werewolves fucking each other, and even an image of a werewolf fucking a unicorn. This last one made Mike laugh. The unicorn had buried its horn into a tree and was backing its ass onto the cock of the howling wolf behind it.

Silence was when the most interesting things happened. The abandoned wing welcomed me with a sigh of stale air and dust. No torches burned here. No guards patrolled. Moonlight streamed through broken panes of stained glass, painting the floor in fractured blues and reds. I paused at the first mural. Dragons. Not the twisted, fire-breathing monsters from the Purge stories, but creatures of impossible grace—their wings spread wide enough to eclipse suns, their claws curled gently around mountain peaks. One coiled protectively around a wolf pup, its massive head bent low as if whispering secrets.

It was the most thoughtful thing I'd ever received in my life. The eight-inch-long piece artfully depicted a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis in five stages. On the chrysalis' shell, she'd drawn elements from my past, while on the butterfly's wings she'd concretized my dreams. Not going to lie, it took everything in me not to start bawling after I'd realized how much attention she paid to my stories, to my secrets.

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