William Brown
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Ares left his room in confusion. The woman in his bed was making him lose focus of his goal. He was only marrying her out of duty to keep his promise to her father while getting himself a life partner who shared the same interest and was intellectual. She was beautiful as well and a mystery, challenging, so he thought he might enjoy her too but nothing more. There could be nothing more. Why now? He sighed feeling a heaviness in his chest. It was the way she looked so damaged. So broken. He was probably…-
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Ares blinked surprised but then quickly shook it off. “Of course.” He said. He went ahead to adjust the bed for her, removing the covers so she could get in. Unashamed, Ravina got into his bed and he gently covered her. He looked unsure of what to do next. “I don’t mean to take your bed for myself.” She told him. He looked surprised again but then chuckled. “You are something else.” “Something good or bad?” She asked turning to follow him with her gaze as he walked around the bed to…
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“Remember the book that I gave you, the story about revenge?” He asked. “Yes.” “What happened to the man?” “He became a monster.” “And then?” “And then he died while killing his enemy. They both then fell into an old well and got buried there.” Her heart sank. She knew exactly what he was telling her. He had become the monster and he would die with the enemy. Share a grave with the enemy. And she couldn’t even tell him to stop because reading that book she had also decided…
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Yes. She was too late. The fire would travel over the distance faster than she could pull the trigger. Her heart dropped to her stomach, the moment triggering past memories of her mother being burned. She would die the same way. Ravina ignored the weapon and covered the mother and her child with her body instead. Stupid but it was instinctual. She shivered and froze because of the feeling that she had done this before. Her last thought was Corinna before she felt the heat of the fire near. The mother and…
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Ravina looked at the letters written by the prisoner. They looked decent and not like something he wrote to deceive her. But it wasn’t the same letters she had seen on her uncle’s notes. She shut the book feeling like all of this was a waste. She had gone through all the library language books yet couldn’t find anything that resembled what she had seen on those notes. She shook her head, trying to fight the feeling that began to settle in her heart. What was happening and why? She loved her uncle…
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Spending the whole day alone, Malachi had a lot of time to think of the past. His memories drifted to certain times, some he wished to remember and others not. He remembered his father. His father was a big man. Powerful, respected, and feared. As young boys, Malachi and his brothers admired him and wanted to grow up to be like him. He oozed strength and confidence. Yet, he smelled like home, warm and safe. He frequently took them hunting and fishing and made them cut wood or assist the humans working…
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“Oh!” Ravina shot her eyes open with a strangled cry. Ester was looming over her with a worried expression. “My Lady, are you alright?” No, she wasn’t. She was horrified. She quickly sat up, touching the straps on the front of her dress. They were tied and her heart was beating rapidly beneath them. “Just another nightmare.” She told Ester. Ester made a sad look. “Come let me take care of you.” She said, helping her get out of bed. As Ester helped her with her morning routine, Ravina…
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Ravina felt like she had to know what disease had infected her to be able to cure it. She told Ester about her dream and how she had been feeling lately, except for a few small details about the prisoner. She only told her about the part where she saw him almost naked. Ester’s expression became one she couldn’t understand but it looked like she was trying to hold back a burst of laughter while being surprised and excited. “My Lady, you are behaving as if you just came of age.” She giggled with a…
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Ravina went back to her room feeling a bit disorientated as if the body she was in wasn’t hers anymore. She never blushed. Never! And now these latest few days she had only been blushing. She could understand why with Ares, but now even with the dragon? With her enemy? Something was wrong with her. She couldn’t blush the same way with a man she actually felt drawn to and another she detested. She sat on her bed with a sigh and stared ahead at the window. She could still feel the heat of his body on…
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In preparation for the suffering she had intended to subject him to, Malachi clenched his hands into fists. He could feel her hot breath on his skin as she cleaned his wound but he did his best to remain still and ignore his body’s reactions. She continued to breathe against his abdomen as she poked him with a metal thing and tried to find the bullet in his body. That didn’t pain him as much as her nearness did yet she had to torture him more. She placed a hand on his abdomen and his breath…
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