Bondedpairs Stories

The war is over. The treaty has been signed. Imara Valen arrives at Dragon Academy-Tianlong carrying grief like a second skin, dispatched under a peace clause she had no hand in writing, forced to train beside the people who built the empire that unmade her life. The last person she expects to be bonded to by the Academy's ancient Partnership System is the Crown Prince himself, a man armored in ice and responsible for the most significant loss she has ever survived. The bond cannot be broken without consequences neither of them can afford, and it will not let them remain strangers. What follows is not a love story that begins in warmth. It begins in fury, in silence, and in the slow terrible discovery that the institution pairing them has a purpose neither of them was told. The romance is earned through friction and argument and moments where honesty costs something real. The conspiracy runs deeper than anyone inside it knows. And the grief at the center of everything refuses to stay where it was put. Dark fantasy. Slow burn. Interracial romance. Black female lead.

(Story 1, Version 2.0) Unknown to Sage, he has been trained by his father from a young age to be more than just a secretary. As a result, he's hated the profession for as long as he could remember. However, when the chance to be the new secretary for the gorgeous CEO of a pristine corporation, he can't decline the enticing lips of the man who offered him the very job he hates. The only thing is, he doesn't know how he will handle working for the man that haunts his every wet dream. Staying sane seems like one impossible task. Kyle wants to be sociable but feels trapped by his own shackles. One day after being seen how he's treated by his co-workers, the new secretary of A&E Inc. takes a unique interest in him. His world is turned upside down. New love, old flames, his past and his future, are all changed by one man's existence. ~Unedited~ ~This is a rewrite, not a squeal of the first story. You can find Sage's story on the first version but not Kyle's~

When desperation and the looming fear of mortality finds solace in an unlikely reunion of seemingly incompatible individuals, fate and secrets unfold. Disclaimer: profanities, sexually implied scenes, themes of death, physical and mental trauma I wrote this story for another short story contest on Instagram. The prompt was "romantasy" The criteria was, 1. A reoccurring memory 2. A change of plans 3. A character with an uncharacteristic hobby It had to be under 2000 words.

It is said that people are born with half of soul: Light and Dark. And they need to find their other half to be complete This story follows five couples and their journey of begin together. Will they have the strength of being together?