𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝟏𝟑 Book 1 in the Legacy of Tommen series 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐊𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡 The boy everyone in Ballylagin knows. Rugby's golden boy. The fighter in The Den. Cold. Calculating. Untouchable. Damian Kavanaugh doesn't feel things the way the rest of us do. At least, that's what I thought. Until he starts noticing me. He calls it protection. I call it suffocating. And somewhere between the bruises, the broken promises and the way he looks at me like I'm something he refuses to lose, I realise Damian Kavanaugh doesn't know how to love without holding on too tightly. But when rugby starts slipping away from him, I'm forced to wonder- If he loses the one thing that made him feel whole, will he lose himself? Or will he finally learn that loving me means letting me choose him? · · ─ ·ʚɞ· ─ · · 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐮-𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 The girl who feels everything. Too anxious. Too soft. Too determined to earn love from someone who never seems willing to give it. Annika Liu-Wilkinson was never supposed to matter to me. Then she started dancing in my sister's ballet studio. And somehow, I started noticing everything. Every nervous glance. Every quiet apology. Every time she made herself smaller for someone else's comfort. She thinks I protect her. Maybe I do. But I also watch her. Control her. Need her far more than I know how to admit. And when she tells me that being loved shouldn't feel like being watched, I realise I've spent my entire life learning how to hold on without ever learning when to let go. Because I know how to want Annika. I know how to keep her. I just don't know if I know how to love her.

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏 of 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 (𝐀𝐉 & 𝐈𝐳𝐳𝐲) AJ fucking Lynch. 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. And the pain in my hole that hasn't left me the fuck alone since I joined this school filled with other-equally narcissistic-entitled, arrogant pricks. How was I supposed to know those tires were his? But honestly, he's like a rock in my shoe, small enough to ignore, yet always biting you in the ass until you ultimately go insane. He's a Lynch. The golden boy, the charmer, and the kind of guy every parent dreams of for their kid. Fairytale perfect, right? Wrong. Because here's the thing: AJ fucking Lynch is no knight. And I'm no princess. What I did to his car? Yeah, he asked for it. How dare he make my life a living fucking hell; the one place where I thought I was safe. What's the saying again? Ah yes, payback's a bitch, Lynch. And luckily for you, we do things differently on my side of the river. ō͡≡o˞̶ Izzy fucking Holland. 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐱𝐞𝐧. And the girl who caused my ultimate fall from grace. Call me exaggerated, I don't give a flying fuck. I want revenge, and she's my one way ticket to satisfying my insatiable hunger for it. I had a life, man. A fucking perfect one-that is, until the accident. Perfect captaincy, perfect grades, and a bloody perfect girlfriend. Now, I have nothing but headaches and a thirst for vengeance. All because of her. She's a Holland. That's what they do, right? Catch you off guard and tear the rug from under your feet so you fall into a bloody fucking death trap. But two can play that game. Let's get one thing straight: I don't want Izzy fucking Holland, or anything to do with her. I just wanna steal from her, you know? A little karma for how she ruined my life. And she'll fall. Because I always get what I want.

ㅤㅤㅤ࿔:･ 𝑳𝑶𝑽𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝒀𝑶𝑼 ･:࿔ Delilah Summers has spent years making a home out of the darkness. Dylan Lucian has never been very good at leaving her there. When their paths cross, Dylan doesn't see the strange, quiet girl everyone else decided she was. He sees her kindness, the pieces she keeps hidden, and someone worth knowing even when she makes it difficult. Delilah has spent years building walls around herself. Dylan is the only one stubborn enough to keep knocking. ㅤㅤㅤ𓂃 𓈒𓏸 sometimes, being loved begins with being seen.

ㅤㅤㅤ˖°. ؛༊ ‎ ‎ 𝑺𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝒀𝑶𝑼 ‎ ‎ 𓂃 ࣪˖ Elysia Evangeline Threnody has spent her life learning how to survive. Kai Zephyr Devereaux makes her wonder what it might mean to live. Elysia grew up where love came tangled with fear, where home was something to endure, and protecting the people she loved meant quietly sacrificing pieces of herself. She learned to carry pain before she ever learned what to do with it, and to mistake surviving another day for being okay. ㅤㅤㅤ𓂃 𓈒𓏸 Then there's Kai, all charm and carefully held-together edges, who somehow becomes the one person she doesn't have to hide every broken piece from. He cannot undo what happened to her, and love cannot erase the scars it left behind. But somewhere between trembling trust, quiet devotion, and a love neither of them planned for, Elysia begins to discover that being alive and living are two very different things. ㅤㅤㅤ𓍼ོ she had survived the dark alone, only to find something worth staying for in the light. "Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space." - Interstellar ㅤㅤbanners by: @fawnslvr // @viperluvv

𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐲 explores the quiet helplessness of loving someone you can't save from themselves, even when you're just as lost. »» - ❦ - «« 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐳𝐞 𝐊𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚 has learned to keep going long before she was ready to. She moves through life with a quiet kind of control, one that doesn't come naturally. She doesn't expect anyone to notice her. He does. He's rough where she isn't, guarded in ways that she recognizes without needing an explanation. Everything about him should've made her step away. But she never did. She stayed to see past his hard surface and understand the words he doesn't say. However, the longer she stayed, the more she noticed the patterns unraveling. It felt too familiar after all. Her father had lost the same fight he was still in. The kind of fight that consumes everything and everyone around it. She wonders if she's holding onto something that was never meant to last. 𝐑𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐳𝐨𝐯 has worn himself down by everything he's tried to outrun. After so long, numbness is the only thing that feels consistent and familiar. It's something he could slip into without thinking. He leaned on substances like a shield. After so long, he's gotten used to shutting everything out. But, she doesn't stay out. She isn't loud, but she's impossible to ignore. Her quiet steadiness unsettles him more than any high. Without meaning to, she shows him what he's spent his life denying. For a while, he allows himself to believe he could be different. But change doesn't come easy. He falls back into what he knows best.