Empire by Anastasia P.
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Last published Mon, Oct 13, 2025
I never thought I had a chance with him.
To me, Ares Stiles was untouchable-my friend, my secret crush, the biggest mystery of my life. No matter how close we became, a part of him was always hidden. A part of him he wouldn't let anyone touch.
He was my peace and my chaos. The calm in my storms, and the storm I couldn't stop chasing.
Loving him felt like losing myself-like handing over every piece of who I was and hoping he wouldn't break it. But Ares carried secrets, shadows he never spoke about, and the closer I fell, the more I realized love with him wasn't simple.
Because some truths don't just break your heart.
They ruin everything.
Empire is a story about the kind of love that consumes you-soft and brutal, tender and destructive. For every hopeless romantic who has ever believed love could save them, even when it was the very thing that could destroy them.
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