"I'm dangerous," he warned me.
"You think you're so pretty, don't you?" I wondered.
"I am pretty, and you know it." He smirked.
I smiled. "You're hotter with blood covering you."
"Well... I am hungry." He leaned down further, breath heating my neck as I closed my eyes. "Very hungry."
I squeezed my legs together, waiting for him to dip down and slice his teeth into my neck... the sweet venom running through me... adrenaline.
"I can hear your pulse throbbing," he whispered gently. "It's quickening as we speak. Do you want to say something?"
I was quiet for a moment, breath shuttering as his teeth lightly nipped at my skin. "Bite me," I begged him, "I need it."
*****
Princess Alice wasn't who she seemed, no... and neither was the prince she was about to marry.
Vampires? No. Demons who feast on blood? Yes.
And she loved it when Elias bit her, she longed for it each night, demanding that she'd be his only food source. It was a sense of love... in her own twisted way.
But we're all twisted, aren't we?
We long for things that don't belong to us, that don't exist, and we do very bad things to get them.
Power, rage, equality.
All comes with a price.
But the price of Elias didn't matter, he was dangerous, a coldblooded monster, but Alice didn't care; because she claimed him the night she set eyes on him...
And she was a monster, too.
The price of power, however, overtook Alice's father, and he became a cruel, heartless monster. In a very different way than Elias. In a cold, painful, villainous way.
Alice would've never thought that her father would be at the other end of her blade.
And she was on the end of Elias's for the wave of adrenaline.
But he would never go for the kill, just the thrill.
Her father, however, might just be gone already. She'd be safer then.
She just had to push the blade forward.
Gone like the wind...
Elias's favorite phrase.
"How can I trust you?"
"You'll have to learn."
Isabella Magaroth was just a child when her new family arrived, though her tale was quite different than anyone could've ever imagined. Four years after her father's death, Isabella encountered the prince of the lands, Blake, and forced herself to shy away despite him clearly being interested in her health.
In every tale, she had been made a maid, but in this tale, cruel unspeakable things happened in her household, and Blake vowed to his father that he would get her out at the right time; for if it was even a minute later, Isabella would've been murdered.
The moment Ella followed Blake into the forest, she wandered into a new world that—even in the medieval times—was considered unreal; a world of witches and angels, magic and sorcery, and Prince Blake was the center of it all.
For she had fallen for one of the fallen.
She is my obsession.
This isn't a normal love story, Sweetheart. The girl's no spitfire, the man's no saint.
We are both villains.
She is my obsession; I am hers.
I know my princess hates that prince, I know she will flee that castle.
I know she will follow me, and once she enters these woods...
She's mine.
*****
This isn't a normal fantasy romance. This is a story of a princess who happens to be a murderer, but all her murders are blamed on one man.
THE MAN IN THE MASK.
Any normal person would fear him, but not Alice. Alice happens to be intrigued by him... and she knows he's not so innocent either.
For he is also a murderer.
An obsession is what she has, but she knows her obsession isn't one-sided. For he had been watching her for some time now.
And little did she know, that he had claimed her as his own.
*****this is my own original work, please do not plagiarize****
𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍; The act of bringing or recalling a feeling, memory, or image to the conscious mind.
Laying in a frosty forest, with no recollection of where or who she is. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥?
Aurora Harper had lived her childhood in the confines of a small room with parents who had mostly given up hope and relatives who knew nothing but scorn. Aurora Harper had found glory in her teenage, being celebrated as a gem of the theatre. A performer extraordinaire. She lived in a villa with parents who wanted to suck her dry off opportunities and relatives who knew nothing but bootlicking.
At twenty, in another housefull theatre of Harper Productions, she faces an ambiguous death and wakes up in the body of a scrawny five-year-old with no future or fortune in sight. Iris Bernadette.
To add fuel to destiny's arson that was her life, Iris also happens to a thief!
Given a blank canvas of a character with no background of the world or the people in it, how long can Aurora Harper ad-lib her way through life?
She finds herself caught up in a flurry of manipulative bets set forth by the young, fun loving and curious Ducal Prince, Arcel Maynard, and the suspicious mannerisms of a lurker of the shadows, Vasil.
There is a gorgeous Duchess and her stolen necklace. There is magic, a hunt for a soul and a Priestess. There are faeries, mermaids, ghosts, dragons and murders. There are schools, churches and strange new lands with treasures. There is adventure, romance and deceit. But there is no war.
There's also illiteracy and poverty but that isn't life threatening for Aurora, yet.
Plummeted into a new world order with a constant existential crises in hand, will Aurora be able to save herself with only her dramatics to get her through?
Or will she fall in the web of this Aurora - Iris paradox and succumb to the whims of the people who want to control her?
Oh- also, she needs to earn a whole lot of money and get rich. Fast! By any means possible. Will you stay to see her get rich? For if you don't, she'll keep failing thoroughly.
Once upon a time, in the hills of The Gilded Kingdom, lived a Princess raised with the purpose of one day becoming The Greatest Queen of Aurelia.
As a proper royal, she must dress well, behave well and attain all the knowledge from the piles of books in the shelves of the Great Library and, of course, find her People's future King through a traditional ball hosted in her home as a pretense for a contest among all the nobles that must prove themselves worthy of her hand.
But what happens if the Princess prefers swords rather than dresses, or adventures rather than balls? And one night she wishes not to hold her title anymore.
In the twists and turns of the pretentious aristocrats that now occupy her home, the Princess might find true love or a broken heart. Each way shall guide her to the life she ever craved for - or so she thought.
A new journey begins in a frigid evening of crimson snow when the nine kingdoms rise from all the corners of the world.
#1 of The Gilded Kingdom series
Coming Soon: Queen of Ash and Stone will be published on Amazon.com
In the medieval city of Evermore, 15-year-old Princess Elodie Ashking's world shatters with the assassination of her parents, thrusting her, unprepared, into the role of Queen. She grapples with grief, haunted by memories of her departed mother and relying on the support of her trusted Prime Advisor, Bishop Callex. Follow Elodie's journey of impulsive decisions that will shape not only her future, but the future of her entire kingdom.
I had the idea for this story many years ago, it all began with an OC I used for casual roleplaying. Then the story for this character remained kicking around in my head for many, many years and underwent a lot of changes and adjustments before reaching its current state. In the beginning I had a lot of trouble writing this story. I took a lot of inspiration from different kinds of books, but the one book that finally helped me actually get anything written was The Chronicles of Narnia.