I told him to break me. And he did. I just didn't think it would hurt this bad. • • • Grace is finished with her third semester of college and decides to stay at her brothers' house for summer break. When work has him leave unexpectedly, Grace finds herself spending her final days with his best friend and also roommate, Jonah.

❝ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝, 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙. ❞ ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* ⊰∙∘ ༓ ∘∙⊱ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ When two enemies on opposite sides of the war and a divide within the kingdom spend an accidental and treasonous night together, both are left with growing conflict. He works to take down her family, and she works to bring his people to justice and remove outdated and oppressive laws. He thinks with his head, she thinks with her heart. They should never have been together, but it became too late to go back. With a war raging on and resulting in dying morale and soldiers, Seraphina must work alongside Azriel to find a solution. But how easy is it to work with someone who is your enemy? And not just an enemy, but one you spent a night with. They try to put it behind them and focus on growing the army's numbers or even bringing an end to the war as everyone would like, but there is only so long two people with a connection can avoid and ignore the obvious pull between them. There is a tether between them, pulling them together. And though it may be forbidden, one of them is going to pull on it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ❝ 𝑎 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑎 𝒔𝒖𝒏, 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔. ❞ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ full information inside. © @rosedthorn 2025. ❪ book one ❫ ❪ shadowlight series ❫ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [ intended audience: 16+ ]

DISCLAIMER: PICTURES ARE FROM PINTEREST BUT AESTHETICS ARE MADE BY ME. *Spinoff to lost in the darkness but can be read as stand alone!* Dante Denaro Rossi, Capo of the Italian Mafia, never had an easy life. Since the childhood, his life was filled with nothing but misery. Being the eldest out of 7 siblings, his priority was never himself. After his little sister was kidnapped by his mother, his bad mental health went more downhill. He blamed himself for all the trauma his family had to face. He was there for his brothers but never for himself. Inheriting the Mafia at the age of seventeen since his father isolated himself in search of his daughter, Dante had no choice but to break up with the love of his life. Charlotte Hearts. Charlotte and Dante were each other's first love. The highschool sweetheart shared the relationship one can only wish for. But, after losing the fight with his own demons, Dante broke up with her with a letter saying goodbye breaking the fragile heart of Charlotte. After some years, what happens when the two wounded soul come face to face? With Charlotte accusing Dante of stealing her dog? Not to forget, she doesn't even remember him? Join the the tale of two broken hearts and find if it's the love that blooms or the hate which magnifies in "A tale of hearts: The Memory Forgotten". #108 in Craziness (12/5/2021) #896 in sadness (11/5/2021)