The Nightmare Lord's Apprentice [BL]

A forbidden kiss that cracks the barrier between the Dreamworld and the human realm... a forbidden love too strong to deny.

Casimir - commanding, respected, and powerfully magical - is set to become the next Lord of the Dream Realm. But after he shares a forbidden kiss with a dreaming human, he's banished in disgrace to be Lord of the Nightmare Realm instead.

That was three years ago. Now thirty-eight years old, Casimir rules the Nightmare Realm with strict discipline and selfless dedication - and he keeps his heart rigidly in check.

But everything changes when twenty-four-year-old Taren arrives in the Nightmare Palace. Kind, devoted, and easily flustered, Taren strives to serve Casimir obediently, yet has an inadvertent tendency to get himself into trouble - and to get caught by Casimir.

Casimir finds himself ever more drawn to Taren, and he soon longs to give Taren all the tender care he deserves. Taren, meanwhile, secretly dreams of being Casimir's, though he tells himself that his feelings are surely one-sided.

But Taren also carries a larger secret - one he wishes with all his heart to tell Casimir, but is afraid to. One that could change the fate of the Dreamworld.

When a mysterious increase in nightmares leads Casimir and Taren to seek answers, each step they take brings them closer together - but also closer to a force that could tear the very world apart. The more they discover, the clearer the real question facing them becomes:

Are some love stories simply not meant to be?

Or can love truly conquer all?

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There will be 35 story parts.

This story is Mature due to eventual scenes of explicit sexual intimacy between the two main characters. All such scenes depict caring, fully consensual intimacy between adults.

I like long chapters, and that shows here! Most run between 3,000-4,000 words.

Three asterisks (***) signal a break between sections in a chapter.

One (*) signals a change in POV between the two main characters.

Happy reading!