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DEAD GIRL'S SECOND CHANCE

Dr. Mara Chen saved lives with her bare hands. She stitched wounds by candlelight, rationed medicine no one else could source, and became the beating heart of Refuge Sigma — the last organized shelter standing after the dead began to walk. It got her killed. Her husband and best friend, consumed by a jealousy she never saw coming, fabricated evidence that she was hoarding medicine and selling it to rival factions. The shelter voted to banish her. She was shoved through the gates at dusk, into a street thick with the dead, and no one came back for her. When Mara opens her eyes again, she is three months in the past, lying in her own bed, the world still normal, her husband sleeping beside her like he didn't just sentence her to death. She is also, impossibly, healed. And something inside her has shifted — something that hums when the dead are near, something that lets her touch a wound and watch it close, something that lets her hear a zombie's presence before it rounds the corner. The bites didn't just kill her. They rewired her. This time, Mara isn't building someone else's haven. She's building her own. And the betrayers who fed her to the dead have no idea that the woman they destroyed remembers everything. But there's one complication she cannot explain: a man named Zane Holloway — quiet, dangerous, and inexplicably devoted — keeps appearing at her side. She saved his life in her first timeline. He shouldn't know her yet. He shouldn't even be in this city. So why does he look at her like she's the only solid thing left in a world already beginning to crack?
innose247 · 540 Views

Shattered Innocence-Lillie's Story

Lili was never given a choice. Abandoned as an infant, she grew up within the walls of a foster home, watching as the world passed her by-unnoticed, unwanted. She had learned to survive in solitude, holding onto the fragile hope that one day, life would offer her something more. But as her eighteenth birthday approaches, that hope fades. Soon, she will have nowhere to turn, nowhere to call home. And just when all seems lost, salvation arrives in the form of a man-a wealthy benefactor who promises security, comfort, and the kind of life she never dared to dream of. It should have been her escape, her second chance. But the gilded cage she steps into holds secrets far darker than she could have imagined. As shadows close in around her, she is forced to confront the horrors that lurk beneath kindness and the unrelenting grip of despair. Faced with an impossible reality, Lili makes a desperate choice. But fate is cruel, and the path she takes leads her into the hands of a stranger-a man whose mind teeters between reason and madness. As their stories intertwine, the past resurfaces, twisting into something neither of them were prepared for. And in the end, some truths are far more terrifying than the darkness itself. A psychological thriller exploring the depths of trauma, survival, and the unexpected ties that bind, Shattered Innocence is a story of pain, reckoning, and the question of whether escape is ever truly possible.
DreemurrSlayer · 25.4k Views

Binary Reflections

Eli’s Hale has always been careful, not just because of his constant bugging anxiety. But because that’s just how his life has always been. His mother Lydia raised him quietly, moving cities more often than normal families would. The father he never met died shortly before he was born, and the rest of his family estranged. Eli learned just not to ask too many questions. Then his mother disappears. The official answers never made any sense, and neither do the events following either. Eli survives something he shouldn’t have. He begins to see things nobody else would even react to. The world feels thinner, like there’s something right beneath it. The world of Binary Reflections runs on opposites. Every force has something pushing back against it, pressure and release, known and unknown, presence and absence. Most people never think about that tension. A few are born bound to it. Those people carry Binaries, opposing forces that shape how reality behaves around them. Power doesn’t come from spells or elements. It comes from alignment. The closer someone lives to their Binary, the stronger it becomes. Advancement isn’t about talent; it’s about survival. And the higher someone rises, the more the power starts changing them in return. Governments know. Institutions manage it. History has been quietly rewritten because of it. Most of the world doesn’t realize it’s balanced on something unstable. Eli doesn’t know any of that yet. He only knows that something is wrong, and that the people who suddenly take an interest in him aren’t offering help for free. The academy that brings him in calls itself selective. Structured. Necessary. It promises answers, discipline, a future. What it really offers is exposure — to others like him, to the edges of something older than the city he grew up in, and to a version of himself he doesn’t fully recognize. The more he learns, the harder it becomes to tell whether he’s uncovering the truth or stepping into something that was already waiting for him. Whatever he survived wasn’t random. And whatever he carries, it isn’t small.
LittleDuck · 246 Views

What Still Burns Between Us

Warning: Only read, if you have a real appetite for the dark. It’s been six years since Danny and Rain last saw each other. Six years since best friends blurred into almost lovers. Since childhood affection ignited into something reckless, consuming, impossible to name. Then after one glorious night, Danny disappeared. No explanation. No goodbye. Just absence and the wreckage he left behind. Rain rebuilt herself on distance and control, convincing herself the spark had finally burned out. She was wrong. Now Danny is back. Harder. Colder. Hotter. Carrying a past he refuses to explain and a violence that clings to him like a second skin. The boy she loved, the boy who cooked for her is gone , replaced by a man tangled in blood, secrets, and enemies who don’t stay buried. Rain doesn’t just cross paths with him again. She’s pulled into his world. A world of ritualistic killings, whispered threats and blood-curdling violence. Every step closer to Danny drags her further from the life she fought to build , and deeper into a fire she knows will change everything. Their connection reignites fast and furious, desire burning like wildfire. But love isn’t enough to save them from what’s coming. The spark between them was never extinguished. It was only buried. And now it’s about to set everything ablaze. Will the fire consume them both , or will they survive loving each other in a world built to tear them apart? Guaranteed HEA and toe-curling smut;) Excerpt: “ Do you not want me?" I whisper, the question trembling right against his lips. His jaw tightens. His eyes darken. "You don't understand how much I want you," his voice comes out raspy. "How much I want from you." My pulse stumbles. "Then what's stopping you?" I breathe, pushing my chest forward without thinking, nipples tightening under the cool air, awareness pulsing through me. "I'm a greedy man, Rain." He holds my gaze. There's heat there. But there's fear too , both in equal measure. "I will take everything out of you. Everything." His voice carries a dark unmistakable hunger. His hands slide lower, deliberate and possessive. His fingers squeeze my ass hard, then settle there, pulling me closer into the hard line of his hips. "Everything. Until the only thing that remains in you is me." The words land low inside me, hot, aching. My sex throbs in answer, needy, traitorous. "And I will let you," I tell him, voice steady, eyes locked on his. "Only if I get to do the same to you." Silence stretches. His breath skims my cheek. His fingers tightening and then gone. Something flickers across his face hunger, and something I can't begin to understand. And then he looks down in defeat, knowing that he cannot give me what I want. Something fragile cracks between us. Whatever this is looms between us, darkening every moment , a shadow neither of us will name, stretching and stretching until it's all I can feel Contains intense slow-burn heat, emotional angst, and consensual light BDSM. "I'm going to do something," he says, voice low, deliberate, "And I need you to trust me. Do you trust me, Rain?" My mind is drifting somewhere far away — hazy, floating — but my body knows the answer instinctively. Yes. Yes. Yes. I nod slowly. "Yes." "Good," he murmurs against my warm skin. He kisses both my knees one last time, then pushes them up, pinning them tightly against my chest, spreading me completely open for him. Like I'm offering myself to him. His hand slides down, rubbing my pussy in slow, deliberate circles, like he's learning every response and cataloging it . He looks at me — really looks — eyes dark, hungry, ruined. "I'm going to spank you right here," he says, still stroking, like he's soothing me into obedience. "Right where you're swollen for me." All I can do is shiver. "You're going to count," he continues, calm and merciless. "Five."
Davina33 · 48.5k Views