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    Their marriage was supposed to be simple:
    merge the companies, honor the arrangement their families made when they were children, survive each other politely.

    For years, Mira kept Rumi at arm’s length while Rumi kept trying anyway.

    Then Rumi stops trying.

    Which, unfortunately, is exactly when Mira realizes she wants to be loved by her for real.

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    19 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 74

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    Captured by Umbrella in 2010 and turned into a werewolf hybrid, Aris Zakarian escapes into the mountains, feral, broken, and dangerous. Mother Miranda finds her and gives her to the lady of the castle in the area who locks her in the dungeon, expecting a beast to control, a potential pet.

    But Aris isn’t a pet; she’s a survivor.

    A few years pass, and tension turns to trust as Aris forms bonds with Alcina’s daughters and slowly earns the cold matriarch’s respect. When danger comes to Castle Dimitrescu, Aris proves where her loyalty lies, with the family she never expected to love and the woman she never meant to fall for.

    A story of transformation, loyalty, and love in the shadow of monsters.

    *This story was originally posted and completed a little over a year ago, but I've been making some major edits to it as of a few days ago, which is why all the chapters disappeared.*

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    17 Jul 2026

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    The battle is won, but the victory leaves cracks behind.

    Rumi is left with shame, with guilt, with regrets too heavy to hold. She wants to stay, she wants the pain to stop, and she does not know how to have both.

    Zoey is glad to have her friends beside her, but in the quiet hours fear settles in. Rumi lied to her, Mira walked away, and she is terrified they will break again. Fear is too much to carry, so she turns it into anger instead.

    For Mira, relief never comes. All she sees are her mistakes, the ways she almost lost them both. She stops questioning, stops thinking, and clings to what she has left. She is the sword, she is the shield, she will rip herself apart if it means keeping them safe.

    They do not talk about how close the darkness gets, or how much it hurts to stay. But in the silence between fear and comfort, something gentle takes root, something tender and stubborn that feels like hope. Something worth fighting for.

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    17 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 79

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    Rumi does not remember much of her life before the Bite, only soft shadows of memories and flickers of feelings that are as confusing as they are fleeting, but she remembers them.

    She knows that she loves them with the same absolute certainty that she had known her own name; that she loves them deeply, desperately and with utter devotion. She has wanted to find Zoey and Mira for years, but Father has forbidden it and Rumi, angry but dutiful, must obey.

    But when Rumi sees them again after so long a hunger like nothing she has ever known roars to life inside her.


    Mira can’t shake the awful feeling that something is watching them.

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    11 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 96

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    Rumi's meeting gets cut short and she comes home early. Zoey and Mira are not expecting her.

     

    "She knew Mira. She knew. 3 years she's known and known and said NOTHING." The final word was another scream, another wrenching full body swing of the mace.

    "We weren't exactly forthcoming ourselves."

    "3 years of thinking we didn't want her, that we chose to not have her, that we were hiding from her."

    "We were hiding." We did choose.

    The mace swings again, two handed, shaft flexing under the blow.

    "3 years of choking back the screams, crying into pillows, sneaking about, lying. Trying to get Bobby to set up that trust without asking any questions. Oh god Mira, is this why she never comes to the bathhouse? Is she giving us space to get our freak on?"

    "Maybe. We have after all. Remember Busan?"

    "Not helping Mira!"

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    11 Jul 2026