AstringentlySweet

Hey My Lovelies, 
          
          Just wanted to thank everyone for the reads, please vote & follow me if you’re enjoying. I’ll post Chapter 3 Sunday to give everyone more time to comment, read, & follow Chapter 2 first, I have more complete works but don’t want to post all at once, your girl has been busy 😂 . Pacing. 

@AstringentlySweet ♥️♥️♥️

The Bullet Was The Icebreaker 
          
          
          Boun Guntachai has killed men for less than a bad date.
          
          He was born into Arakkha, a secret syndicate older than most systems of law. Its Blades eliminate the guilty no court can touch. Its Healers keep their people alive. No one joins. No one leaves. And nothing matters more than preserving the bloodlines that have kept the organization hidden for centuries.
          
          Boun is the deadliest Blade in the American division.
          
          Prem is the youngest chief the Healers have ever produced—brilliant, mercilessly precise, and an androgyne man: outwardly male, but born with the anatomy to conceive and carry a child.
          
          The Elders believe combining them will produce the perfect marriage—and an unstoppable heir.
          
          Boun believes taking a bullet would be less painful.
          
          He only asks his little brother for a harmless shoulder graze.
          
          Santa has never been good at harmless.
          
          Now Boun is bleeding out on Prem’s operating table, and Prem knows exactly why he was shot. Worse, he isn’t offended.
          
          He’s unimpressed.
          
          Boun and Prem agree on exactly one thing: being ordered to want each other is reason enough not to.
          
          Attraction can be dismissed. Lust can be explained. Even respect can be survived.
          
          But wanting someone beside you on an ordinary Tuesday?
          
          That is where the real trouble begins.
          
          Because if they fall in love, the Elders will believe they were right.
          
          And what if they are?

I just posted my first chapter of my new story, it’s complete but I will post new chapters every Sunday to ensure during the week everyone has read. If I get feedback earlier than expected I will post the next chapter by Friday. 
          
          After three years together, Prem and Boun ended their relationship in six sentences neither of them meant.
          
          Eight months later, they have mastered the performance of moving on: polite greetings, separate chairs, carefully divided friends and smiles convincing enough to fool everyone but each other. But beneath all that practiced distance are two men still carrying the same unanswered question—what if their breakup was never mutual at all?
          
          Inspired by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ “The Tracks of My Tears,” Faith Hill and Tim McGraw’s “Like We Never Loved at All,” and the Commodores’ “Easy,” this is a story about love disguised as restraint, silence mistaken for kindness, and two people learning that the opposite of letting go may not be holding on.
          
          It may be asking.

My Lovelies! 
          
          Yes, your girl has been gone for a minute. A long minute. An “at this point, should we file a missing-person report?” minute. 
          
          But I promise, I never stopped writing. My problem was that I kept trying to cram the entire plot, theme, emotional breakthrough, generational trauma, and happily-ever-after into the first three chapters.
          
          By Chapter 4, everybody had already fallen in love, defeated their enemies, healed their childhood wounds, bought a house, and adopted a dog.
          
          And I’d be sitting there like… well, what the fuck do they do now? 
          
          Basically, I kept giving the whole story away before I actually finished writing it.
          
          So while I’ve been gone, I decided to do things differently. I’ve been writing several stories from beginning to end—with real plots, fully developed premises, texture, build-up, and endings that don’t arrive before the story has even started.
          
          I’ll be posting new stories and revising some of the older ones. I’ll also be temporarily removing my really old stories while I decide which ones deserve a rewrite—and which ones need to be respectfully laid to rest. Cause some BL ships to the bottom with the Titanic. Some of them served their purpose. Some of them committed crimes. We’ll discuss it later.
          
          I’m sorry I disappeared for so long, and I truly appreciate everyone who stayed, checked in, reread my work, or patiently waited for me to find my way back.
          
          But I’m back now—with finished stories, actual plans, and slightly better impulse control.
          
          Let’s try this again. ❤️
          
          New/Revised Stories coming soon.

Love and miss you girly! 

Hello, wish you all the best for this year. Happy writing :)

My Lovelies! 
          
          Apologies for not updating. I was on winter break with the family and just got home. I will be updating my stories ASAP. Thanks for your support, my day 1s, y’all are amazing. I love you so much! You kept me going and writing. To those who have just started reading, welcome! 
          Hello! Thanks for following, and adding to your favorites. 
          
          I love BounPrem forever and always, I will continue to add more stories of them… I will also be branching out and doing more ships. If you have any in mind, please let me know. After spending time with my loved ones, they have been flooding me with awesome plots and I am so excited. 
          
          Get ready! I will also be in collaboration with someone who wants to add my stories to A03. I’m little nervous, but am trying to be brave. 

Hey My Lovelies!
          
          I just updated One Night Changed Everything. Sorry for the delay.  I'm feeling much better now, all except this stupid lingering cough. LOL

Hey My Lovelies, 
          
          So sorry I haven’t updated any stories. Two weekends ago I had to work, and during the extended holiday vacation I got influenza  . I spent my entire holidays in bed . It’s Wednesday and I’m just starting to feel well enough to post this. Updates are on their way.