IMPORTANT: Once in a Lifetime has been removed from Wattpad and is preparing for publication on Amazon. The first two chapters remain available as a preview. Please read the "READ THIS FIRST" chapter for more information and future updates. They say some loves only happen once. For Ody and Mano, that once changes everything. Mano doesn't do vulnerability. Aggressive, tattooed, cold, and impossible to like, he plays the villain on purpose, because being hated is safer than being seen. And losing someone again isn't a risk he's willing to take. Ody is the opposite. Bright, extroverted, charming, and painfully sincere, he notices when you're hurting, even when you pretend you're not. He remembers your birthday, offers you the last slice, and apologizes even when it's not his fault. For someone like Mano, that kind of softness is dangerous. When their lives collide, nothing about them makes sense, except the way they keep gravitating toward each other. What starts as tension becomes something neither of them can name, and soon, something they can't stop. But between secrets, buried trauma, and a world that won't let them exist without consequences, wanting each other comes at a cost. One keeps pushing him away. The other keeps reaching past every warning sign. Together, they burn. But when everything catches fire, love may not be enough to save them.

You can change your name. You can run across continents. But you can't escape your blood. River Blackwood wasn't always River Blackwood. He used to be River Silverbloom, son of an arranged marriage that ended in gunfire. His mother loved a man who could never love her back, he was gay. When she found out the truth, she made her choice and shot him. With her brother Alaric Zoric's help, Helena fled to America with River, erasing their past. When everything finally collapses, River disappears into the secluded town of Redstone Falls, hoping anonymity will keep him safe. Instead, he finds connection, a fierce friendship and love. With them River learns the tender power exchange of BDSM, they offer River a world where submission isn't weakness but a path to healing. Through their care, patience and dominance, River learns to accept all parts of himself, soft, vulnerable and strong. As River begins to accept every part of himself, his strength, his softness, his need. The past comes calling, old names still carry power. Old wounds don't stay buried and some legacies refuse to be outrun. Because no matter how far you go, blood never forgets. Disclaimer: Age regression is non sexual! The age regression will be non sexual in this story!