╭─────── ୨ৎ ────────╮ 💖 𝘼𝙇𝙒𝘼𝙔𝙎 𝙒𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙏𝙀𝙉 𝙁𝙊𝙍 𝙀𝘼𝘾𝙃 𝙊𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 💖 ╰─────── ୨ৎ ────────╯ 𝖨𝖿 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝖻𝖾𝗅𝗂𝖾𝗏𝖾 𝗂𝗇 𝗋𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍 𝗉𝖾𝗋𝗌𝗈𝗇, 𝗐𝗋𝗈𝗇𝗀 𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖾, 𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗋𝗒 𝗂𝗌 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗒𝗈𝗎. 🌙🧵 ───────────── ୨ৎ ───────────── ----------------------✨𝓣𝓮𝓳𝓾 💖------------------------- A tenth grader who chooses peace over chaos and dreams over distractions. She believes in boundaries, loyalty, and building her future carefully. Love was never part of her plan ───────────── ୨ৎ ───────────── -------------------✨𝓖𝓪𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓱💖------------------------ Observant. Persistent. Quietly intense. He notices what others miss, respects her space, and never rushes what she isn't ready for. His intentions are genuine - and somewhere along the way, she becomes more important to him than he expected. ───────────── ୨ৎ ───────────── 🆃🅷🅴 🆂🆃🅾🆁🆈 Told through Teju's eyes, this is a story about timing, boundaries, and becoming. They say you meet your soulmate more than once - the first times when the timing is wrong, and the last when the universe finally aligns. This story proves it. ╭───── ୨ৎ──────╮ ♡ 𝑰𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒖𝒔... 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒖𝒔. ♡ ╰───── ୨ৎ──────╯ 🌟 Most Impressive Rankings #21 lifelessons (out of 8.84K stories) #897

For most of her twenty-one years of life, 𝙍𝙤𝙨𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙣 has lived in a gilded cage. Though as any young woman would, the princess longs for one thing only; freedom. Freedom to run into the sea, to dance under the sun... to be her very own. Sadly, as merely a pawn in a king's game and with war looming on the horizon, she is asked to put aside desire for duty. Destined to wed 𝙎𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙣. A rakish brute of a prince from a heathen country without summer, in need of an heir and a broodmare to produce it. However, when an attempt is made on her life, Rosalyn is assigned a sworn-protector. 𝙎𝙞𝙧 𝙂𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙩 The Butcher; a faceless knight of the Faith and retired crusader with haunted eyes and a penchant for gardening. The soft-spoken knight is unlike anyone she's ever met. A grumpy enigma always hidden beneath a helm. 𝘐𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦... When the threat of war increases, The Butcher is tasked with transporting the princess in secret. A perilous journey that will test not only Geralt's skill as a knight, his faith, his patience, but perhaps even his self control as a mere man. For when forbidden desire blooms, two questions arise: 𝘞𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘎𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴? 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘯 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦... 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙠𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩?

In a universe where myth and reality intertwine, The Beginning of an End follows Asmodeus, the demon of lust and desire, whose centuries of decadence and detachment are disrupted when Loki, the Norse trickster god, breaks into Hell. Their meeting-accidental, fated, or divine mischief-sets off a chain of events that threatens the balance between all realms: Heaven, Hell, and Asgard. Loki arrives bearing a prophecy: that he and Asmodeus are destined to ignite the apocalypse. Torn between disbelief and fascination, Asmodeus lets the trickster live, a decision that slowly erodes the order of Hell. What begins as suspicion and rivalry between two beings of chaos turns into an unlikely bond-a connection that blurs the lines between friendship, defiance, and forbidden affection. Think Good Omens meets Lucifer meets American Gods but darker, queerer, and much more sarcastic. ****I will be posting this story on RoyalRoad.com****

This is not a story about what happens. It's about what almost does. At an Ivy League medical school, Isabelle Laurent is known as the Ice Queen-brilliant, distant, untouchable. No one gets close. No one stays. Alexander Whitmore was never supposed to be different. Charming, privileged, and infamous for never staying longer than a few weeks, he understands desire. What he doesn't understand, until Isabelle, is restraint. She believes he doesn't want her. He knows wanting her openly would destroy everything. So they choose the most dangerous thing instead: friendship. "The most dangerous thing about Alexander Whitmore was not his reputation, nor his charm, nor the power he would one day inherit. It was the fact that he never asked for anything from me, and somehow, without realizing it, I had begun to give him everything that mattered." Slow burn • Dual POV • Consent • Emotional intimacy