Delicate Innocence

"Say it again," she breathes, fingers tight in my hair.

"I'm yours," I gasp. "I'm only ever yours."

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Ruin Me And Call It Love

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Silas Crawford wasn't supposed to want her.

He came back home broken - no money, no future, no art left in his hands. Just shame, grief, and the memory of the night he watched his mother die.

What he didn't expect to find was her.

Verena: older, dominant, the woman who used to sit beside his mother at church. The woman who saw him grow up, and now sees him craving something he's never dared ask for.

She's everything his father hates. Everything he's not supposed to need. But when she tells him to kneel, he does. When she wraps a hand around his throat and calls him hers, he shatters for her.

And when the town finds out who she really is - a dominatrix, a woman without shame - they don't just come for her.

They accuse her of knowing more than she should about the night Rosemary Crawford died.

Silas has a choice: protect the version of himself his family wanted... or kneel for the woman who's teaching him to be ruined and worshiped in the same breath.