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Ashes Don't Bow
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Complete, First published Jul 14
Mature
⚠️ 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.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

- Blythe 💋
📍 @BlytheInVelvet - where legacy kills, silence deceives, and every kiss could be a threat.
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