Duty & Darkness

Duty & Darkness

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​"Ideal. Unseen. Obedient." ​For Y/N, these aren't just words-they are the bars of a cage. Growing up in a house where silence is a survival tactic and her father's disapproval is a sharpened blade, she has mastered the art of being invisible. But when the Dark Lord demands a "second chance" from her family, Y/N is dragged out of the corners and into the center of a dangerous game. ​The mission is simple: Protect Matteo Riddle. ​As the Dark Lord's son, Matteo is a target for enemies and a magnet for trouble. Y/N is ordered to be his shadow-his silent protector who watches from the periphery, ready to intervene but never to be heard. ​But in a world of "rotten cloth" and dark legacies, staying invisible is easier said than done. As the lines between duty and defiance begin to blur, Y/N must navigate the treacherous halls of power while guarding a boy who may not want her protection-and a heart she can no longer afford to keep hidden. ​In the house of the Dark Lord, the most dangerous thing you can be is noticed.
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Quinn Taylor has made a career out of looking calm. On the ice, she's America's favorite kind of pressure-proof-bright smile, steady answers, the skater everyone wants to root for. Off the ice, she's an only child with a perfectionist's brain and a habit of carrying too much alone. The cameras love her. The country expects her. And the one place she can't afford to fall apart is the one place she's dreamed of since she was little. The Olympics. Macklin Celebrini has always made things feel lighter. He was the new kid at a Northern California rink at twelve-Canadian, polite, a little lost-until Quinn decided he was hers to keep. He became her best friend in the cold air and early mornings, the person who could make her laugh mid-breakdown and never ask her to perform for him. Then life did what life does: seasons changed, schedules got brutal, distance widened, and the kind of friendship that felt unbreakable turned into occasional texts and quiet missing. Now they're both back where the world is loudest. At the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Quinn is chasing the skate of her life for Team USA. Mack is carrying his own weight for Team Canada hockey. When reporters find out they grew up together, the story writes itself-childhood friends reunited, smiles caught on camera, a thousand strangers deciding what they are to each other. The only problem is... the strangers aren't entirely wrong. Between past chapters at a small California rink and present days in the Olympic Village, Quinn and Mack have to figure out what they really meant to each other then-and what they're allowed to be now, with medals on the line and the whole world watching. Because it's one thing to love someone quietly from a distance. It's another to have them show up in your life again and make everything feel possible.

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