⚠️ MATURE THEMES AHEAD
This story contains intense emotional dynamics, psychological manipulation, complex power shifts, sensual tension, violence, and dark family secrets.
For readers who crave:
🖤 morally grey characters
🖤 weaponized femininity
🖤 emotional and strategic warfare
🖤 mystery, mind games, and obsession
Discretion is advised.
Not for the faint.
Perfect for the obsessed.
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ASHES DON'T BOW
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Every woman in their bloodline, mother, cousin, daughter dies before thirty.
No explanation. No cure.
Just a legacy written in obituaries.
Selene Vayne was raised to be obedient.
Polished. Perfect.
The last heir to a name whispered like a warning.
But when someone closest to her dies...
And the signs begin to show in her too...
She stops waiting for answers.
She starts hunting them.
In a world ruled by silence, dynasties, and secrets carved into blood,
Selene learns:
The game was never about survival.
It was about obedience.
And she's done being obedient.
But someone is always watching.
Someone always has been.
And the deeper she goes,
the stranger the truth becomes.
She's not trying to break the curse.
She's trying to expose the pattern.
And when it snaps, it won't beg for mercy.
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- Blythe 💋
📍 @BlytheInVelvet - where legacy kills, silence deceives, and every kiss could be a threat.
A Featured Wattpad Romance, Wattpad New Adult, and Wattpad Psychological Novel (triggering romance)
**November 3, 2019: 1st place Winner of romance category for the Monthly Sunflower Awards (October)
**December 12, 2019; genre winner of the romance category in The Zupe Awards
**December 24, 2019: second place winner in romance for the Astrologists Awards
**February 2020: placed first in Early Lovers category of Romance Reads Contest
"You could get into trouble tempting the wrong person."
She frowned at him, creating a slight crease between her eyebrows that was so unlike the rest of her flawless and perfect appearance. "Am I tempting you?"
"No." His mind screamed, yes!
She batted her eyelashes at him, her violet blue eyes bright. "Do I have to beg?" she asked with a pouty lower lip.
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Teagan Miller: He was known as a no-good ladies' man who lived for the moment. He didn't care about anyone or anything, save the few minutes of pleasure he found when he lost himself in his latest flame.
Rain Sullivan: They call her the Ice Queen. She was a straitlaced, no-nonsense young woman who didn't have time for the type of games he played.
For all intents and purposes they were like oil and water. They didn't mix. They shouldn't have fit. Yet one night changes everything; the night Rain steps down from her seemingly picture perfect pedestal to offer Teagan more temptation than he bargained for.
Sparks fly when these two touch. Now it's up to them to decide if what they've found is worth the risk of getting a little burned.
**I OWN THIS STORY! Please do not steal it!
**Beware this story has mentions of sexual assault
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Started: August 2019
Completed: April 25, 2020