Love After Midnight

Storytime, Romance, LGBT

Category: Paranormal

  •   Coming to Liam feels his arms and legs are bonded to something that is metal. He squeezes his eye closed, the pain in his head making itself known, and he tries moving around a little to test how far he can move before his binds hinder him. When he opens his eyes into slits…

  • I am stuck right now in my current stories, I know where I want it to go but it’s hard finding the right words… so, I am going to do what I normally do when this happens… I am gonna write something else so I can still get my creativity out and then maybe it…

  • Dawn smelled of rain and printer ink. Ari woke with the practiced calm of someone who had learned to steady herself before the world asked for steadiness. She dressed in the same careful order she used for drills: socks, shoes, a braid Cashel had started, and Leonidas finished. At breakfast, they spoke in small, ordinary…

  • The summons arrived on a morning that smelled of rain and iron. Couriers came not as threats but as formalities: banners folded, words measured, and a request for audience that carried the weight of old protocol. The Pact gathered in the Temple’s council chamber—Seraphine at the center, Warden at her right, Nyra and several rogue…

  • The Vale woke to a different kind of morning—one threaded with questions. The new arrivals had brought skills and stories, but they had also brought histories the Pact did not yet understand. Seraphine spent the day like a cartographer of people: mapping not just routes and watchposts but the contours of memory and grievance that…

  • Dawn came thin and silver, and with it a new tide. The Vale’s borders, once a quiet line of trees and watchposts, became a braided road of travelers. They arrived not in a single wave but in a steady stream: elders with hair like lichen, children with eyes too old for their faces, hunters who…

  • The next wave came not as a march but as weather—slow at first, then undeniable. At dawn a scout returned with a string of footprints that were not wholly human: impressions of hooves and talons, the soft drag of something that carried seeds in its hair. By noon the Vale’s tree line was a moving…

  • Ari learned to count in two languages now: the tidy numbers her teacher wrote on the board and the quiet measures of power that lived beneath her ribs. Mornings were arithmetic and playground politics; afternoons were drills and debriefs. She practiced tethering a thought to a name until the syllable felt like a stone she…

  • The cameras loved ritual. They loved the ordinary because ordinary could be replayed and dissected until it looked suspicious. Cashel and Leonidas learned to treat their lives like evidence: visible, repeatable, unremarkable in the best possible way. They took turns answering questions in the compound’s glass-walled briefing room while Ari sat on a low stool…

  • The news came like a wind that had been waiting for permission. At first it was a single shadow at the edge of the Vale—an antlered silhouette that paused at the tree line and then stepped forward, curious rather than hostile. Then another came, and another, until the Temple steps were ringed with faces that…