Luster Novels & Stories

The faintest whisper through the screen. You called. Again. And her screen glitched. Marek's name appeared on every tab. Her fingers trembled. The last thing she saw before the lights went out was a single word typed on the document she hadn't touched: MINE. **** Elara was curled under her sheets, the thick, fluffy duvet draped around her like cocoon. Her laptop sat on her bedside table, screen still glowing with the documents she thought she'd closed hours ago. The last thing she had seen before dozing off was the title of the newest chapter.

The city was a blur of lights and movement as Sienna stepped onto the streets, the chill of the evening pressing against her skin. Her mind replayed the encounter from the night before, Lucian’s words echoing in her chest: “Proximity isn’t just about presence—it’s about influence.”

"Wow. How old are you?" "I'm eighteen." I replied. "I should have known." He murmured, and I turned on the horse to look at him. "What do you mean, you should have known?" I asked. He looked down at me, and our eyes met. Our eyes had met several times in this very long night, but this time it was stronger, more synergic than other times. His electric blue eyes seemed to capture my stormy grey ones and hold on to it, and I could feel myself almost melting in his gaze.

"Barely." ​"It’s 4:59, sir," I replied, stepping forward and placing the silver flash drive on the polished mahogany surface. "The edit is complete." ​Luke finally looked up. His eyes were sharp, scanning me with a clinical detachment that made me want to shrink. He reached for the drive, his fingers brushing against mine for a fleeting second. I felt a jolt—a phantom spark of the connection we once had—but his expression didn't change. He plugged the drive into his computer, the silence in the room stretching until it felt suffocating.

The four of us turned to face him. “Our Luna is fine. She has no wounds that I can see. There are a few spots where there are some red marks which I have a feeling will turn into bruises.” Dr. Lewiston told us. “I watched her eyes roll back as she dropped like a lead balloon.” I pointed out.

“Let me lead the design of layered defenses and decoys. We’ll call this—Lattice Aegis.” A few eyebrows raised. I unfolded my own small scroll—a map of Fanghart Castle and the borders of neighboring territories that I had drawn up the night before with Nyra and Beta Casren. “Lattice Aegis is a network of wards that doesn’t stay still. The nodes must be placed on natural boundaries that can ‘come alive’: ancient trees, menhirs, riverbanks. We inject tracking seeds—runic stings—that disguise themselves as ordinary ritual residues. When the black nodes attach, our seeds activate, then—”

Caroline, a she-wolf who has been considered a monster since she was a child, can she break the tragedy spell and find her MATE?

I couldn't even leave the house and I didn't realize that for two days I was just inside my room facing the computer. I didn't stop investigating, and I carefully studied every detail in her journal so that I could almost memorize everything written there. Until all of a sudden, there were ads with obscene photos of naked men. I would have ignored it, but the girl he was in the picture where she was lying on the bed looked familiar to me. Out of curiosity, I opened it and suddenly an obscene video played where a man and a woman had sex naked. I didn't finish the video because I would rather not watch those kinds of videos. However, I read some comments where I noticed they were talking about

he asked with a sigh, but the confidence came back in his voice, making my thighs quiver. I bit my lower lip, rolling it between my teeth. "Where do you want to touch me? I need options." He chuckled. "Options." Both of his hands smoothed down my waist as he cupped both of my hips in his massive hands. His eyes were dark, the glow of yellow light on his face. But I couldn't mistake the lust emanating in his gaze. "Give me options, Thane," I repeated, shivering under his touch. "Do you want another kiss?" He touched my lips again.