Hestia's Wish [2019 ONC Longlist]
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  • Reads 17,668
  • Votes 1,215
  • Parts 26
  • Time 2h 26m
Complete, First published Jan 07, 2019
Mature
Hestia Hale is trapped in world of chaos.

Upon her thirteenth birthday, she is selected as an apprentice to one of the strictest blacksmiths in the Isles. With this new change, comes pressure and fear. Fear of being sacrificed if she doesn't meet Aries' standards within three years.

When Hestia wishes to join the Aries' army after her apprenticeship, it sets her relationship with Alastair Romanos on a dark path with no room for redemption. Despite this, Hestia struggles to come to terms with her feelings for her childhood friend. Her only hope is to purify the darkness in Aries' heart.

In a world where catastrophe is the norm, Hestia must decide whether she will allow the demons of the past to keep her from freedom and happiness in order to free the Isles from Chaos' corrupted influence.
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♡ NOVELLA VERSION of Engulfed by Aries
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♡ ONC 2019 entry (prompt 2); word count: 20,000 - 30,000
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The Fifth Guardian

45 parts Complete Mature

Raynar has always had two agenda: To fulfill his duty as a guardian and to avenge his mother's death. His father made sure he is trained well, which is to train him to death as a child. Despite being an emotionless killing machine, he has a duty to protect the human realm from anything that threatens it's peace. Until he met his comrade's sister, he knew being associatted with her is bad news but then he saw an opportunity to avenge his mother. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It was the perfect plot, until everything starts to crumble and his revenge becomes more difficult to achieve. He realized that Aristia will cause the human realm it's peace, the very thing he lives to protect. He starts to see Aristia as more than a pawn in his game and is torn between saving her or saving the human realm. Aristia has been cloistered away all her life in a castle hidden in her father's kingdom. The law that makes royals kill their daughter was cruel and so her father, the king made sure she was hidden away. She knew she is the fifth guardian, she is more powerful than the four combined but there has always been four guardians and adding her to the mix will bring chaos. She just wants to live a peaceful life and be happy until she met him. She knew Raynar was dangerous but Aristia can seem to shake her desire for him, he made she see's how powerful she can become. But as their relationship grows intense and heated, she realizes that everything is too good to be true that she is just a puppet that is being controlled for his amusement and that she needs to question everything she ever knew. Caution: This book contains the following trigger warnings. Sexual Content, Sexual harrasment, Death, Darkness, Gruesome details, and explicit language. Acknowledgements: There are songs that I have used in this book. In the end by Beth Crowley and Dark Paradise by Lana Del Rey.