Restrained Stories

ʙᴏᴏᴋ ɪ ᴏꜰ 'ᴛʜᴇ ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ᴄʀᴏᴡɴ' ꜱᴇʀɪᴇꜱ. #ɪɴ ʜᴇʀ ᴅᴇᴠᴏᴛɪᴏɴ, ʜᴇ ꜰᴏᴜɴᴅ ʜɪs ᴅᴇsᴛʀᴜᴄᴛɪᴏɴ. She wasn't meant to cross his path, yet she stumbled straight into his world of shadows. He wasn't meant to keep her, yet he bound her with vows she never chose. She believed in love, while he believed in power and ego. But every time her innocence collided with his darkness, something inside him shifted- a hunger, a madness, a pull he couldn't name. She was supposed to be a pawn. She became his obsession. And in a world where love tastes like sin and devotion feels like war- she will either be the reason he redeems himself... or the excuse he uses to burn it all down. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌑 " This isn't just a love story. " It's a warning. A prayer. A scream behind closed doors. If you're looking for butterflies, walk away. But if you're ready to bleed with every page- Welcome to the ashes. Welcome to the reign. Let the restraints begin. { The chapters aren't the final version of what's shown!! Changes can be made. Can be re-edited. }

This is not a story about what happens. It's about what almost does. At an Ivy League medical school, Isabelle Laurent is known as the Ice Queen-brilliant, distant, untouchable. No one gets close. No one stays. Alexander Whitmore was never supposed to be different. Charming, privileged, and infamous for never staying longer than a few weeks, he understands desire. What he doesn't understand, until Isabelle, is restraint. She believes he doesn't want her. He knows wanting her openly would destroy everything. So they choose the most dangerous thing instead: friendship. "The most dangerous thing about Alexander Whitmore was not his reputation, nor his charm, nor the power he would one day inherit. It was the fact that he never asked for anything from me, and somehow, without realizing it, I had begun to give him everything that mattered." Slow burn • Dual POV • Consent • Emotional intimacy

Two years and a month after the death of her abusive husband Kyogo, widowed woman Shizu Shinazugawa bumps into healthy charcoal merchant Tanjuro Kamado, his wife Kie and their six children, thirteen year old girl Sumiko, eight year old triplets Nezuko, Takeo and Hanako, six year old boy Shigeru and five year old boy Rokuta, at sunset and they go with the widower to her home, where she introduces them to her seven children Sanemi, Genya, Sumi, Teiko, Hiroshi, Shuya and Koto. While asleep in the home late that night, both families wake up after sensing the demon king's presence outside the house's doors. Tanjuro and Kie choose to stay behind to fend the demon king off for as long as possible while Genya, Hanako, Hiroshi, Koto, Nezuko, Shizu, Sanemi, Sumiko, Shuya, Sumi, Shigeru, Takeo, Teiko and Rokuta escape unharmed. This results in the couple being captured, taken to a building and imprisoned in it the fourteen people later being found and brought right to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters for their safety by some demon slayers. Four years later, Nezuko, Takeo and Hanako, all three of who are now twelve, Shigeru, who is now ten, Rokuta, who is now nine, Sumi and Teiko have recently become demon slayers and Shizu, Hiroshi, Shuya and Koto have all recently become medics while Sumiko and Sanemi, the two of whom are now seventeen, are now powerful Demon Slayer Corps members alongside his combat partner and lifelong friend Masachika Kumeno, having both been recruited by the organization's leader two whole years after being brought to its headquarters alongside Genya, Hanako, Hiroshi, Koto, Nezuko, Shuya, Shizu, Shigeru, Sumi, Takeo, Teiko and Rokuta.

Amidst their battle against enemy warlord Mega Tron shortly after they are found by their planet's life source, the All Spark, kind robot Optimus Prime and his crew, Ratchet, Bumblebee, Bulkhead, Prowl, Sideswipe, Sun Streaker, Mirage & Hound, fall towards Earth, where he steers their spaceship away from civilians before joining them in stasis. Half a century later, they wake up after a piece of a creature enters their spaceship and give themselves new vehicle modes. While Ratchet analyzes the piece, the rest of the crew goes to fight the creature. During the battle, Bumblebee earns the full trust of twin girls Sari & Slate Sumdac and their older sister Saga, who is four years older than the twin girls. They later get two more friends in the teenage James sisters Luxury and Meadow, who are four years apart in age and happily live with their father, diner owner Ryle James, and grandmother, retired restaurant waitress Talulah James, both of whom had recently told both the seventeen and thirteen year old girls they aren't humans, but sisterly robotic beings.

Half a year after her fifth birthday, Anthea Edwards loses her widowed mother Indy to a gunman in a restaurant robbery in Sacramento, California. As a result, she is left orphaned due to having lost her father Marcel when she was a year and three months old. Therefore, she leaves behind her hometown after the funeral four days after this and travels on a train with all of her belongings to Detroit, Michigan. There, she gets help with getting the boxes off the train and is driven to the home of her maternal grandparents Nolan & Emery Silvers, both of whom take her in shortly after learning of Indy's death. Twelve years later, Anthea, who is now seventeen and a half, sees five kind robots battling a evil robot whilst out on a morning walk and is later told by her grandparents she was found inside a escape pod by her parents four and a half years after they married. Three days after this, Anthea tells one of her saviors the reason why she chose to go live with Nolan and Emery instead of Marcel's family.

Since their parents Taryn & Maxwell died when they were both four, identical eighteen year old twin sisters Eliana & Eleanore Kensington have lived together as sword wielders in the Kensington family's at home weaponry shop in eastern Orlando, Florida. One day, they return from shopping to find their home under attack by three evil robots and are taken out of their hometown by twin robots Sideswipe & Sun Streaker.

Having lost her parents in a road accident in southern San Francisco, California at the age of nine, Brielle "Bree" Dutch grew up living in Jasper, Nevada with her kind hearted elderly maternal grandmother Verity Johns. A month after her nineteenth birthday, the teen girl wakes up after a good night's rest in her pajamas in a medical room in the ancient warship the Nemesis to discover she was taken from her room shortly after falling asleep in her bed the night before. The morning after this, Bree is found and taken out of the Nemesis by Auto Bot medic Ratchet, who had been sent to locate her and rescue her by Auto Bot leader Optimus Prime after the Auto Bot team learned of her disappearance from her grandmother.

In fall 1992, twenty four year old Iolanthe Quintana West and her fifty two year old mother Liberty, both of who own the weaponry store they live within on the outskirts of Jasper, Nevada, hear a crash outside and come out to find a newborn female robot in a escape pod. Naming her Alitalia November West, they take in the newborn female robot after she takes on the appearance of a human. Eighteen years later, they finally tell her the truth. Stunned by the fact she is a robot in origin, Alitalia, now a slim bodied beauty, goes off to find more of her kind and later joins the young and skilled Auto Bot soldier Cliff Jumper in a battle against some Con soldiers at a energy mine in the countryside with the metallic spear and bow her mother and grandmother gave to her, saving his life in the process.

Elara Finch built her workshop in the narrow space between a tanner's shed and an old apothecary because no one else would make room for her. When her automaton awakens inside that workshop, the change doesn't come with sparks or spectacle, but with silence that no longer presses so hard, tools that seem to listen, and devices that respond to restraint instead of force. As Elara studies the residual effects left in the wake of her creation, she uncovers patterns that reveal this discovery is not new. Despite marks erased and records destroyed, someone reached this threshold before her, and chose to stop. Residuals of Wonder is a quiet, character-driven fantasy about unintended discovery, careful craftsmanship, and the unsettling realization that some inventions are not meant to be claimed.

𝖍𝖊 𝖌𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝖆 𝖓𝖆𝖒𝖊. 𝖘𝖍𝖊 𝖇𝖊𝖈𝖆𝖒𝖊 𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖚𝖓𝖙𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊. BOOK TWO | Resonant Series ♱────────────♱────────────♱ Elena now has a better grasp of her ability. But a darkness inside her lies dormant until now. Her ability begins to grow. And so does the danger. ♱────────────♱────────────♱ Elena Night has become more than the shell of the girl she was when she arrived at Nevermore's gates. But beneath her growing control, something darker stirs-something she isn't ready to face. Her Resonance starts to push both her and Isaac over the edge. Curiosity and passion turns into a double-edged blade. Obsession and possession comes at a cost. Something unknown awaits in the shadows, lurking, watching, waiting to strike. Elena must learn what she can control... and what will control her. Isaac Night unlocked her potential. But some forces were never meant to be tamed.

Natuto siyang mabuhay nang tahimik- by loving carefully, by not naming things too soon, by leaving before anything could hurt too deeply. Druid arrives at a new job carrying more than ambition. May dala siyang nakaraan, isang pagmamahal na nawala the moment na pinili niyang malaman ang katotohanan. Kaya nang mapansin siya ni Sam-gently, without demand-something unsettled within her. Hindi lang attraction, she felt the the fear to be seen, ang takot na maging vulnerable ulit. What they have is not a loud romance, but more often than not, silence can be so loud. Theirs lives in pauses held too long, in glances that linger, in questions almost asked and answers never given. Sam offers presence. Druid offers distance. Between them, understanding grows-quiet, careful, and tense. As family expectations tighten and old wounds surface, Druid must confront the cost of safety-of choosing silence over connection, restraint over risk. Because some loves don't end in betrayal. Some end because no one was brave enough to reach. Will Druid have courage enough to face and confront her past to make space to her present? This is a story about quiet longing, about the things we protect ourselves from, and about how sometimes the most devastating loss isn't what was taken-but what was never claimed.

--- Silent Observations Some connections speak in whispers, some linger in the shadow of a glance. Rhiannon watches. Noor moves unaware. Between them lies a quiet tension, a pull neither can resist, yet neither can name. Desire simmers beneath restraint. Boundaries blur. Every moment, every subtle gesture, carries weight. A story of obsession, fascination, and the fragile edge between longing and control. In the spaces between words and glances, hearts betray themselves. Mutual obsession, slow awakening, and conscious surrender to desire ---

Maxine is an unusual almost-eighteen-year-old teenager. In a few days she will finish 11th grade and begin summer break, the season she passionately despises. Although she has many interests and hobbies, boys have never fit into any of those categories. She prefers studying, reading or hanging out with her best friend instead. If she could, she would live alone somewhere in the mountains, anywhere really, as long as she wouldn't have to socialize as much as society expects a teenage girl to. Will this be the summer that changes her forever? Or will our heroine stand her ground against change? I suppose we'll find out together. Author's note: My books never begin with spice or drama in the first chapter. Not because I dislike the idea. Sometimes I enjoy reading those kinds of stories, where attraction is magnetic and consuming, and sex is portrayed as something accessible and definite. I want you to know that everything I write is pure fiction, perhaps with small details gathered from the stories of people who have passed through my life. Although I will remain anonymous, I will tell you something personal. In my everyday life, I have always let things form organically. I surrender to the currents of the "River" which is, in fact, life. Maybe I am selfish for applying this principle to my work as well, for "subjecting" my characters to a kind of restraint, often making them simmer with desire. But from experience, I stand by this idea: the most beautiful stories are born in their own time. I hope you enjoy my fiction as much as I enjoy writing it. ❤️

They weren't supposed to touch. They weren't even supposed to look. Clara Moretti is building her surgical career under a name that already casts a long shadow. Damiano David is a trauma attending who learned early what it costs to survive pressure - and who taught Clara everything except how to stay away from him. This is not a love story about freedom. It's a story about restraint cracking, about desire curdling under pressure, about what happens when wanting someone doesn't make you brave - it just makes you exposed. Some lines don't explode when you cross them. They tighten. Slowly. Until there's no way back.

You are an outsider to this reality. Carrying a golden light that only resonates to you. Unlike any power known before, it does not conquer-it resonates, quietly altering the Planet, the city and the choices of those stand near it. In this altered reality, only one being understands what you truly are-Sephiroth, existing between death, memory, and the Lifestream. You do not fight him. Not to fix him. You stay. The Golden Girl is a slow-burn Final Fantasy VII alternate universe that focuses on atmosphere, emotional restraint, and the cost of staying in a world that was never meant to keep you. This story is not combat-driven and does not follow the main game's progression. It explores Sephiroth through stillness rather than conflict, and love through silence rather than possession. If you are seeking action or adventure, this may not be the story you're looking for. If you are drawn to something that lingers, introspection, and quiet tragedy, then this might for you.

My entire life I have been locked away, and all of a sudden I am handed over to a stranger for marriage. I was almost sold. My mom left me a long time ago. But now suddenly two years later my hand is asked for marriage by Adrian Kozlov A ruthless criminal. Will our marriage be consummated by love or by blood? Will I ever be loved?

The story of Phoenix Ghost Siren Demon and Dante 'She smiled, but it was empty. 'Brainwashed to believe. No better than your last kill. I don't see that as peaceful kid'. With that, she leant back to the back of the van, relaxing as if she had met the terms of her fate. She had given her final words. Now she had to wait for the end.'

It's a Christmas story about a young couple who love goes wrong. Will they survive Christmas?