writer by thöön..

NO SAFE WORD LEFT A standalone aftermath novel by Ash Ryker Some endings free you. Some endings follow you. This one waits in the dark and breathes with you until you come back. They said walking away was survival. They were wrong. Survival is what happens after you return. This isn't about love anymore. It's about the damage that still wants to touch you.

He thought love was a ritual. She made it a performance. Damien catalogues everything - bruises without stories, receipts that don't belong to him, captions that erase him in public while keeping him close in private. What began as devotion becomes erosion. And what he thought was intimacy becomes a ledger of quiet harm. She's magnetic, strategic, and always just out of reach. He's unraveling in silence, rewriting himself in the margins. But when the ledger becomes proof, and silence becomes architecture, Damien stops asking to be seen - and starts building a life she can't edit. Taste of No is a dark psychological romance about the slow violence of being overwritten, the reckoning that follows, and the quiet power of choosing yourself when the story tries to erase you.