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I don't always need a happy ending.

Sometimes I root for the bad guy. Sometimes I want the monster to win, the cage to stay locked, and the girl to stop pretending she ever wanted the key.

But I love the soft ones too. The whispered you did so good after the storm. The ones where desire feels like a gift and safety is something you choose instead of survive.

I write both because I need both. The dark and the tender. The brutal and the gentle. The stories that make me feel safe and the ones that make me feel seen in the places I'm not supposed to look.

If you need redemption arcs and tidy endings, you won't always find them here. But if you want to feel marked, a little ruined, and understood in the same breath — you're in the right place.

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Several Updates and A/C Requirement

Hey everyone!

I hope summer is treating you guys decent, I’m entering another heat-wave. Me and Old Lady Piper will be hiding next to an air conditioner for the next week or two.

Where to start…

Seen Twice. Mine Eternally. act 1 is officially done, longer than I intended, and I even made a beat sheet and then totally ignored it. I’m a mood writer, the planning thing and I don’t mesh very well. Howeve

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“I watched you take her whole hand. Saw you swallow it up. Felt you grip it from across the room. You were so unrestrained. So wanton. You let all those strangers see you, Gigi. Let them watch you act so fucking depraved.”
The front of his silk pajamas was tented, a hard, undeniable bulge.
“And afterwards,” he continued, his voice thick with a dark reverence, “the pretty mess you left… dripping with your own juices, so pink and gaping… It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen, Gianna.” He opened the trunk. The lid fell with an ominous, final-sounding thud. “And I need to see it again. Up close.”
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“I watched you take her whole hand. Saw you swallow it up. Felt you grip it from across the room. You were so unrestrained. So wanton. You let all those strangers see you, Gigi. Let them watch you act so fucking depraved.”
The front of his silk pajamas was tented, a hard, undeniable bulge.
“And afterwards,” he continued, his voice thick with a dark reverence, “the pretty mess you left… dripping with your own juices, so pink and gaping… It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen, Gianna.” He opened the trunk. The lid fell with an ominous, final-sounding thud. “And I need to see it again. Up close.”
Marrin Locke, The Roleplay Diaries: Vegas on Display: The Observer's Obsession: A High-Stakes Game of Temptation and Desire

“I watched you take her whole hand. Saw you swallow it up. Felt you grip it from across the room. You were so unrestrained. So wanton. You let all those strangers see you, Gigi. Let them watch you act so fucking depraved.”
The front of his silk pajamas was tented, a hard, undeniable bulge.
“And afterwards,” he continued, his voice thick with a dark reverence, “the pretty mess you left… dripping with your own juices, so pink and gaping… It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen, Gianna.” He opened the trunk. The lid fell with an ominous, final-sounding thud. “And I need to see it again. Up close.”
Marrin Locke, The Roleplay Diaries: Vegas on Display: The Observer's Obsession: A High-Stakes Game of Temptation and Desire

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