Dusken Ashes || Kim Taehyung Fanfiction || Classic romance

-Execution is ART.

Love was a delicate thing-until it wasn't.
Until it sharpened its edges, turned to steel, and slit her open from the inside.

Kael had been her everything. The air she breathed. The dream she never dared to wake from. But dreams have a way of unraveling at the seams, and when the illusion shattered, it left behind nothing but dust and betrayal.

Now, standing in the wreckage of what was once a love story, Elysia swallows the bitter taste of truth. Kael was never hers. Not really.

And yet, even ruin has its ghosts.

Taehyung is not a savior. He does not arrive with gentle hands or whispered promises. He is a storm, all quiet devastation and unreadable eyes. A rival. A mystery. A force that unsettles and unravels. He steps into the void Kael left behind-not to fill it, but to remind her that it exists.

Hatred is a slow burn. So is longing. And somewhere between the two, something begins to smolder.

Elysia must choose: drown in the ashes of a love that was never real, or rise from them, forged anew in a fire she never saw coming.

Because love, like war, leaves no one untouched.

And in the end, the heart is the cruelest battlefield of all.