boyxboy [trauma, sex, hurt/comfort, love story, slow burn, long chapters] College art student Jamison Parker struggles with getting close to anyone after trauma crippled his ability to reach out and connect with others both physically and emotionally. More interested in nature than people, he keeps his head down and tries to get through each day without giving up entirely. Classmate Elliot Astor is a trust funder that can't buy his way out of grief and secrets of his own. Spending his nights partying with his friends to forget, he drifts through days with little interest in chasing anything but the next distraction. After a chance meeting, they find themselves drawn increasingly close together, pushing the boundaries of their heartache and histories, and fighting for a future neither dared to envision. current word count: 301,471 -------- • trying to update once a month, if not sooner • some chapters are broken into multiple parts for ease of reading, as some chapters are over 16K words • I'm a very dialogue-heavy writer :) • this is a genuine slow burn ***Read with caution*** This story includes mature content and themes such as explicit sexual content, suicide, self-harm, abuse, violence, trauma, drug use, mental illness, death, extreme homophobia, slurs, cursing, etc. There is no SA, though Stats: #1 in anxietydisorder 10/22/25 #2 in bxbromance 02/02/26 #5 in loneliness 01/26/26 #6 in freethelgbt 01/26/26 #11 in gayboys 01/26/26 #17 in gay-sex 01/26/26 #18 in gayness 01/26/26 #34 in explicit 01/26/26

In a kingdom where Omegas are bartered like coin, peace is sealed not with ink-but with vows. When Prince Caelan, the last jewel of a fallen realm, is forced into an arranged marriage, he knows survival means silence. Gentle, obedient, and bowed beneath the weight of his crown, he endures every cold glance and cruel word with lowered eyes. His new husband, King Alaric, does not hide his hatred. To him, Caelan is nothing but a chain around his neck, a reminder of conquest and compromise. Their union is a political noose-never love. But within palace walls, silence speaks louder than rage. As plots coil in shadows and loyalties fracture, Alaric begins to see that his quiet, suffering Omega is far more dangerous-and far more precious-than he ever imagined. A crown won in blood. A marriage forged in hate. And an Omega who refuses to break.

This is Liam's story, an omega people never stayed for. Not because he wasn't worth it, but because life kept taking things away from him, again and again, until he stopped expecting anyone to stay at all. He is kind in a quiet, almost stubborn way. The kind of kindness that doesn't ask to be returned. He endures things most people would break under, carries pain like it belongs to him, and still somehow manages to stand. Sensitive enough to feel everything. Strong enough to let it go. Because Liam learned early; nothing stays. Not people, not warmth, not safety. Everything eventually slips through his fingers, so he stopped trying to hold on. Until Tae Ashford doesn't leave. A high-ranked alpha. Powerful. Untouchable. A man who has everything and needs nothing. Except : he can't walk away from Liam. What begins as something insignificant, almost accidental, slowly twists into something else. Something heavier and sharper. An obsession Because Tae doesn't just come back, he keeps coming back. Again. And again. And again. Until Liam, who was used to being left behind, suddenly has someone who refuses to leave him at all.

She feared him more than anything-until he became the only place she felt safe. After escaping years of abuse, Lina found a fragile kind of peace scrubbing floors in a mercenary's mansion. Quiet, invisible, and broken, she kept her head down and her voice lower. Especially around him. Killian. He kills for a living. He is a powerful, cold-blooded mercenary, a wealthy man who built his empire off blood, fear. He owns a powerful private military company that operates in the shadows, answering only to the highest bidders. He commands killers, closes deals, and never makes mistakes. Until her. A glance. A flinch. A wound she tried to hide. And suddenly, he was watching her closely. Quietly. Like she was a puzzle he didn't mean to touch... but couldn't stop obsessing over. Killian: "You blush like that again, and I swear I'll pin you against this wall just to see how deep it goes." He didn't know how to be soft. She didn't know how to be wanted. But in a house full of violence, he saw her. And he started to change. And soon, she was everywhere in his mind.

Twen is an omega boy who has been chained to a dark room for as long as he can remember, tortured, and sold by his captors. Tired and in pain, he wants nothing more than to end his misery, for there are no longer any feelings of hope of ever escaping. Or is there? **WARNING** This is a story rated MATURE, there is mature content. Such as abuse, mentions of suicide, sexual acts and strong language.

He finally found someone to keep him safe. But somebody wants someone back. That's the problem you can't take him back he belongs to somebody else.

Alex is disabled and a werewolf haunted with what his previous pack did to him, his brother and sister drop their lives in their pack and leave through the night and move three towns over to start over. But nothing saved them for this...mates, family, new pack and enemies. Will little Alex face his biggest fear of the past and finds his mates, accept them and move on or will everything come back and haunt him...

(Completed) Adrian has been bullied for all 23 years of his life, but one day when his work peers want him gone they push him into the royal parade. He hits the 3rd prince's car and is about to be executed, but fate has another plan for him. In a world where gayness is okay, even among the royal family, a young man is thrown into a royal family drama. Will he survive the different threats on both his life and the man that saved him. Will he finally be loved instead of hate?

Runt doesn't know what his real name is. He's been called that for his entire life by everyone he knows, and cannot remember being addressed as anything else. Runt is an albino in both wolf form and human, and is abused by his pack for it. When his brother, the alpha of the pack, sees an oppertunity to throw him away, he takes it. So, Runt is thrown into a new pack with new faces and new ways of thinking. The only thing stopping Runt from enjoying himself to the fullest is that aching feeling he gets whenever he sees the alpha of his new pack, Rowan. How can he go against natural instinct when he knows that the only way for a pack to thrive is by the alpha reproducing?

{edited, and completed} Dakota just moved from her home and to a town her mother grew up in, she is considered a selective mute. All the kids at her school used to bully her over it, but now she has to go through that with another school. What she didn't expect is to have the school's player to come up to her and try to talk to her. Cole is the future alpha of his pack and the player of his school, being the future alpha does make you popular with the ladies so he sleeps around a lot. And trust me he wasn't expecting to see a beautiful girl sitting in his class room with an intoxicating smell that just made him want to kiss all over her. This is the mute girl's story.