Restraints Stories

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

This is an alternate timeline, fractured and unstable, where canon does not unfold as it should. 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.

Ishaan Raichand and Tara Sharma They were in love, broke up because of their family matters. Their families became rivals because of some misunderstandings, and then sorted it out. But, they did not. Years later, they meet again in the most unexpected way. Same college, same class and same course. Jealousy explodes. Feelings deepen. Their romance isn't the same anymore, it's ruined romance. Dark in terms, ruining each other through gazes His jealousy burns. Her jealousy set things on fire. Dive into the story You'll love it for sure. ♥️🖤

A kingdom in ruins. A princess on the run. A sword that chooses its master. Princess Avice has been raised to rule the kingdom of Koda. She carries the title well, until she loses everything to betrayal.Her parents are dead. Her sister vanished, and overnight, she becomes a fugitive running through dense woods nobody has ever dared enter. With a heart shattered by betrayal and exhausted with grief, she encounters a strange man in these dense woods, as mysterious as the sword he owns. Fueled by rage and the desire to win back her kingdom, he becomes her only path forward. As fate pushes her through loss, battle, and impossible choices, she unknowingly steps into something she cannot turn away from. Avice must decide what she is willing to sacrifice to avenge the death of her parents, but revenge is not the only thing calling to her. Some destinies are forged in blood. Others are sealed by the blade.

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.

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.

Lavender is a meditation on emotional timing and incomplete arrivals. It explores how two people can be present, attentive, and sincere yet never meet each other at the same emotional moment. The novel examines being noticed versus being understood, planning versus acting, and how certain relationships exist not to be fulfilled, but to permanently alter the way we feel and move through the world.

This is a poem about romantic ambivalence, of desiring love but having the darkest of delusions eclipse and corrupt the paradise that it could be. For how can beauty love a beast? Cover art by @joosh.is.extrapulpy on Instagram.

*UPDATED VERSION* Kathy Rathem is just a girl. A girl trapped in a society the doesn't fulfill her life to match her need: freedom. she doesn't understand why so many people are fine with this way of living. Will Kathy follow the crowd, or take a different route? So this is on my other account but I really liked this book and couldn't log in to my other account.

This is a battle, I face, occasionally. It happens to everyone, but we tend to overlook It, giving darkness a chance to overshadow us. Combat that toxic feeling!

Duty is sharp. Devotion sharper. In a world of discipline, honor, and shadowed halls, Lan Wangji's quiet devotion with Xie Lian hides a bond that should never exist. Every glance, every wordless moment carries the weight of unspoken feelings. A story of loyalty, restraint, and the kind of connection that can't be named aloud. -🌟- #wuxia #xianxia #chinesefantasy #darkfiction #forbiddenbond #platoniclove #emotionalwriting #haunting #poeticprose #loneliness

Unearthed by a river's flood, a skull bound in ropes of many sizes lies intact, its knots carved with ritual purpose-bindings not to preserve the dead, but to imprison what still stirs within.

A tightly bound skeleton is unearthed and freed from its ancient restraints, unleashing a violent entity that once had to be buried in a twisted, pinned pose to keep it from returning.

Can you patch a broken canvas? Entry to the Ambys 2021 - Poetry Category

While making her way back from a mid afternoon walk in the part of Yokohama she has lived in since her parents abandoned her when she was a toddler, lovely young woman Arise Nakajima, who is twenty four, is grabbed from behind by the young and powerful criminal Osamu Dazai, a twenty eight year old man who is the current leader of the powerful criminal organization he's been a part of for almost a decade and has been attracted to her since becoming the powerful criminal organization's boss four years earlier. Afraid of him, she pulls her arm free from his grip and runs the rest of the way back to the abandoned building she has long called home. Shortly afterwards, he finds her in a cupboard in her house's kitchen and pulls her out of it. Afterwards brought over to the kitchen's entrance, she is knocked out and kidnapped by him. Seconds after waking up after two hours, Arise learns not only does Osamu truly love her, he also intends to marry her.

Fate . Do I believe in it? Probably not . But I want to . 6 years have passed , yet when i see that face again ....i want to believe in fate and destiny and everything else . After all this while that one face takes away all the restraint that i built ..or rather ..wanted to build .

Nim has always been the difficult one. Too stubborn. Too defiant. Too much trouble for her mother's carefully curated reputation. So when her mother travels for work, she leaves one person in charge of keeping Nim in line: Jai. Older, calm, and endlessly patient, Jai has worked for Nim's mother for years. She knows all the rules, all the expectations-and she intends to make sure Nim follows them. She's supposed to be the responsible adult, the babysitter Nim doesn't want but can't shake. But Nim refuses to be managed. Their days become battles of stubborn will and sharp words. And somewhere in the midst of curfews, lectures, and tense silences, something shifts. Stolen glances linger too long. Arguments turn raw and vulnerable. The lines between caretaker and confidante, obligation and desire, begin to blur. As Nim pushes boundaries and Jai struggles to maintain hers, they find themselves caught in an impossible choice: keep their distance, or risk everything for something they're not supposed to want. Because falling for your mother's trusted assistant isn't just inappropriate-it's dangerous. But sometimes the most reckless thing you can do is tell the truth about what you want. *A slow-burn, age-gap GL romance about duty, desire, defiance, and choosing love even when it means risking everything*

Gremory has always been cold hearted and strict. His confidant, a lower class demon who stands at about 5' tall, names Caymin has had to put up with Gremory's constant mood swings and wild antics for almost ten years!! Being at the age of 25, he has duties to no one but soon, that will all seem to change... Aqua, a little orphan girl about the age of 5 is found half alive, due to an attack on the small town where she had lived with her parents. The day her life changed forever, and twice in one day!!

The hero says he is saving the city. The city believes him. And Seraphae begins to understand the cost of letting lies live. As power shifts, secrets surface, and morality fractures, Seraphae is forced to confront a devastating truth: she was never evil-but she may need to become it to survive. Not to conquer Eldermere.