In A Burning Heart Novels & Stories

" … Edward frowned deeply. When he spoke, it sounded like he was grinding his teeth. "Jasmine, your sister is about to kill herself, and you're still thinking about a handkerchief? "Is romance really that important to you? Important enough to make you this cruel?" The moon hung high in the sky. It was already late at night. Edward turned and stormed off, his sleeve snapping in the wind. I stood alone in the middle of the street, the cold wind making my head spin. However, the colder my heart felt, the tighter I held onto the engagement document.

One round left The fog in my mind was gone. But the fire in my heart was just beginning to burn.

But inside, she was seething, her heart burning with anger and hurt. **********************

My thoughts kept circling around Zinnia, and I kept pushing those thoughts away. Suddenly, a poem popped into my head; In my head, I am fighting fire with fire. The flames are getting bigger and brighter. I can hear it crashing. I can feel it burning. I am tossing, and I am turning. I am burning, and I am screaming. I am crying out for help. Why are they not putting the fire out? They are making it bigger. It is burning faster. I can feel it spreading through my body. Why are they making it worse?

That is when something weird happens my heart starts to feel like it is burning, I pause for a minute and Arizer realises that something is wrong and stops. "What, what is it? what's wrong?" The burning had stopped so I say "Nothing I'm ok now carry on." "Are you sure, I don't want to hurt you?" "I'm sure." He starts sliding in and out out of me again and then it is the weirdest thing, I hear the word Mate in my head.

My lungs burned; my veins felt like they were on fire. Through the haze, I saw the entity looming over me, massive now, its form unraveling like smoke in a storm. Every piece of it screamed with agony and longing. I raised my hand. The mark on my chest blazed with light. If the Heart had been born from hunger, then I would answer it with the only thing it didn’t understand, love. I thought of Roman, of Lira, Kael, and Janie, of every soul who had stood by me when they had every reason not to.

DEX A heartbeat runs through me, painful at first, like something inside me has cracked open. Then, that pain spreads and changes, flooding every vein in my body with fire. It burns, but it heals too, like lava surging through me. Every pulse carries both agony and exhilaration until I can’t contain it anymore. My lips part, and a deep, wild howl tears out of my chest. It echoes across the battlefield, carrying through the air until it reaches every mind and heart within the Silver Crescent Pack.

It hurt so much that he felt himself ‘burn like an ember’. When Ty finally sung out the next line, everyone secretly wished in their hearts to be in Kai’s position to have such a dashing and loving mate while Kai’s mood dropped as he understood what Ty meant. It hurt. It hurt so bad ! It hurt him like a fucking burning ember too !! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * It's burning me like an ember * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

"If the office hadn't been full of staff, I might have been dragged back and forced into a marriage with the Marshall family." After the recording ended, my colleagues were silent, then one by one, they offered me cups of coffee, a silent salute to my ordeal. "Harriet, you've been through a lot," they said. I just smiled. People only saw where someone ended up, never the journey it took to get there. My journey was paved with blood and tears. They call me heartless, but they have no idea how much passion I once had, all burnt to cinders. Now, I have turned those cinders into a blade.

Back in the car, every second was agony for Connor. His fists were clenched tight on his thighs, tongue pressed against the roof of his mouth. He stared unblinking at the crumbling building ahead. "Connor, relax. It'll be fine, don't worry," one of the guys said. "Yeah, there's no way it'll kill her. We've calculated everything," another said. But their voices didn't register. Connor couldn't even bring himself to speak. Then, all at once, he shot up and made for the burning building.