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Prof Elfmily & Spoopdolph the Red-Nosed Catdeer
@professoremily.bsky.social
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English teacher, writer, lover of cats & dogs, unpacking all my religious trauma on you from here in good ol Texas. 🥲

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Prof Elfmily & Spoopdolph the Red-Nosed Catdeer @professoremily.bsky.social · 20d
New commission by the very lovely & talented @nushdeco.bsky.social!!

It's my twin girls Clara & Mem Blake from #Charagma. Nush absolutely knocked this one out of the park! It's so beautiful 😍

#art #characters #writingcommunity #writesky
Beautiful digital painting by @nushdeco.bsky.social. Clara and Mem Blake, two twin sisters in their early twenties, stand back to back in the center at a tilted angle with a city landscape behind them. They are both white and blonde with blue eyes; Clara wears white and red clothes and holds a crossbow, her long hair flowing in the wind, Mem wears gray and blue clothes with her hair tied back in a bun under a scarf. Mem's expression is haughty and determined, Clara's expression is innocent and a little sad. They are surrounded by a ring of fiery light with curving shadows reaching around them. The city towers over them in the background: it is a bunch of decorated towers and floating basalt islands connected by light bridges. In the center of the sky above everything, a golden seraph with six wings hovers, two wings covering their face and two covering their feet.
professoremily.bsky.social
#AwesomeCharacters

#Atlantis: the main one that comes to mind is the character I call Redacted Hunk Lady 😂 She was originally planned to be a one-off character in the last act of Book 1, but I liked her so much she's now going to join the main cast through the whole trilogy... and even get a LI 😏
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Side character day!

Do you have any side characters that you plan to/have brought back in a much bigger role?

Did you set it up in advance or did it just happen? Could the reader have predicted it?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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#AwesomeCharacters

I have plans to bring in Sybil's relative who's referred to off screen a bunch as her motivator for being outside the Crucible as having to deal with the twins & co. 😂

Look, someone wants to prove their auntie was unjustifiably put in a position she'd rather not be in.

🧵1/2
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Side character day!

Do you have any side characters that you plan to/have brought back in a much bigger role?

Did you set it up in advance or did it just happen? Could the reader have predicted it?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I have a nebulous idea for a sequel to THE DEVOURING that will bring back some of the side characters, making two of them main characters. However, I don't expect to write this anytime soon, and a lot can change between now and then.
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Side character day!

Do you have any side characters that you plan to/have brought back in a much bigger role?

Did you set it up in advance or did it just happen? Could the reader have predicted it?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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#AwesomeCharacters

I am planning to introduce chapters from Bruce's POV in book 3 and maybe have a romance for him as well. Also, Scarlet will appear more in book 3. If I can pull it off, Reggie will have a big role to play in Book 4 and 🧵

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts #Wrencer
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Side character day!

Do you have any side characters that you plan to/have brought back in a much bigger role?

Did you set it up in advance or did it just happen? Could the reader have predicted it?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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#AwesomeCharacters

I'm not sure if you mean someone in one book who had a small role, then got a bigger role in a different book. Or someone who has a small role at the start of a book and becomes more important later🤔

For MoDaH:

The former: Tynan, Lungidus, and Requiem
The latter: Steffa
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Side character day!

Do you have any side characters that you plan to/have brought back in a much bigger role?

Did you set it up in advance or did it just happen? Could the reader have predicted it?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 30, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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We'll be here a while.

First of all, there's Jesse/the Cheetah. He shows up in H/V1 as a minor character who's there as a filler superhero. Evie interrupts his review. He interrupts her apprehending a villain. She gets some info from him, & he's in the background of the climax

#AwesomeCharacters
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Side character day!

Do you have any side characters that you plan to/have brought back in a much bigger role?

Did you set it up in advance or did it just happen? Could the reader have predicted it?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 30, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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HEHEHE YES although it'll take YEARS of Alexander's life/even more years writing to get there. 🫠

Set up something for 2 characters in 1665 that's heavily foreshadowed.
2 characters' role in 1667 is set up but very sneaky for now.
And also, just want to use one minor guy more from 1662+.
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6h
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Side character day!

Do you have any side characters that you plan to/have brought back in a much bigger role?

Did you set it up in advance or did it just happen? Could the reader have predicted it?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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#WIPSnips 29. "Clobber"

It's clobbering time for Mileena.

#ChroniclesOfTheRealms #MileenaSuêòng #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters
With the cell breaking apart, would she get her magic back? She squinted and grimaced, praying for whatever god would be willing to hear her pleas… The vanha tore a hole big enough to fit half its crooked body and threw itself against Mileena— She teleported outside the cell and, acting on pure instinct, grabbed the spear of the dead guard and shoved the tip into the demon’s back. It howled, thrashing to dislodge its blade from the wall—the wall where Mileena had been mere seconds ago—and the spear from its spine. “Weeds, weeds…” Mileena cursed, looking around for anything that could help but an end to the beast. Without time to think, she grabbed the head of the guard and yanked the helmet free just as the vanha freed itself. She banged the demon’s mandible, driving a canine out. Bladed arms swooped down. Mileena teleported above the vanha and slammed the helmet on its head, knocking it down to the ground, where she clobbered its elongated skull until the creature stopped moving.
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Getting ready for my trip to BLUDEYE BEACH 🌊☀️👻

(if you haven't heard, the digital version releases Jan 1st, and a physical release is soon to follow!! ❤️ learn more at hookandquillpress.com/our-books/)

#indiepublishing #indiewriter #booksky #writingcommunity
December 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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We're celebrating Christmas with my parents, and my mom got me this massive New International Dictionary from 1946 with painted edges.

It's 2,987 pages and weighs 16 lbs. 😅♥️

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky
Photo of cover: Webster's New International Dictionary Second Edition Unabridged. Tan cover, gold-embossed title, faded maroon and teal swirls on paper edges. Photo of edition notice: Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language Second Edition Unabridged Utilizing all the experience and resources of more than one hundred years of genuine Webster dictionaries A Merriam-Webster (Editor names) G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers Springfield, Mass., U.S.A. 1946
December 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Clobber = Throttle

Wren is hiding out, trying to give the Blackboots the slip.

From my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Wrencer
Through the window, she had a warped view of the street that stretched silhouettes impossibly tall and then squashed them down again as they moved past the pub. After a while, time began to feel like the figures in the street, drawn out thin, then suddenly compressed until it distorted beyond all recognition. The painful throb in Wren’s shoulder and the rapid flutter of her heart seemed the only constants in the world. Well, maybe not the only constants. “Davey Fucking Bones,” Wren hissed into the depths of her beer. There wasn’t enough warped glass in the world to disguise those mutton chops or the slab of barely conscious muscle ambling along beside them. If Davey and Bricks were here, it was a sure bet that the Blackboots and the Greenies were colluding on this particular hunt. A third silhouette joined them in the street, Bowler Bill if the round smudge of brown on its head was any indication. This is a good thing, Wren reasoned with herself. They lost the trail and had to regroup. Just sit tight and don’t do anything stupid. She’d almost convinced her heart to settle back into a normal rhythm when another figure glided into view, a slender streak of black with hints of gold glinting in the afternoon sun. The list of sinister bastards wearing all black on a Sanctusday afternoon was a short one. It had to be Skunner. Wren grabbed her sudden, panicked desire to run by the scruff of its neck and throttled it soundly.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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#DecemberWorldbuilders 29

Hard to say if it is truly unique, as so many interesting ideas have already been explored, but I will talk about the Stream, today.

And how, in my world, people are basically marionettes.

I've mentioned before that the Stream is the source of all life and magic. 🧵
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 1d
#DecemberWorldbuilders, it's the last few days of the month and I like to ask some more broad questions about your worldbuilding generally or your habits

Share something you think is unique about YOUR world. OR, something in your world that is rare to the people living there!
MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #DecemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Extra Days 29. Share a unique, niche, or obscure thing in your world The image shows a cozy town during winter with warm lights. Large mountains are in the background. It is blurred. Snowflakes are around the top words
December 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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All those words are synonymous to me, but in my mind, “smut” is sex with some story while “non-smut” is a story with some sex.

Bee Book is porn/smut/erotica because the sex IS THE STORY. Yes a lot of stuff happens in between, and the characters don’t spend the entire time banging but+
#Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 1d
Something of a reflective topic for today's #Smutcember prompt:

What are the differences between porn, smut, and erotica to you? What's something you wish was better understood about these distinctions, or these styles/genres in general?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a Bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: 29) What are the differences between porn, smut, and erotica to you?
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky

Clobber synonym/vibes.

I've shared this scene before, but it's been a while and it's one of my favorite scenes 😂

From Book 3 of my #Atlantis trilogy.
That was too much for Toctha. He erupted like a volcano, shoving Mireia aside and taking a wild swing at Kena, forgetting—or perhaps simply not caring—that he was attacking the man who was ostensibly the actual sun god in the flesh. Unfortunately for Toctha, while his blow was powerful, he was not particularly subtle with his movements—especially now, when he was running on nothing but rage and wounded pride. And even more unfortunately for him, Kena had been trained by one of the most elite warriors in all of Atalantis. Kena dodged the attack, moving like lightning, and landed a hit on the side of Toctha’s head that sent him stumbling sideways. Mireia, who had of course trained right alongside Kena and knew his fighting capabilities inside and out, was well aware that he could have knocked Toctha unconscious in an instant if he’d chosen to. She also knew that if Toctha had any idea that Kena was deliberately holding back, he would have been even more furious. Shaking his head, Toctha turned back to Kena and resumed an aggressive fighting stance, bracing to attack again. “Really? You’re that determined to fight?” Kena sighed wearily, slipping into an almost lazy defensive stance. “I was hoping that blow might have discouraged you.” “A lucky hit!” Toctha growled, shaking his head and blinking again, still clearly a bit disoriented. “I’ll have you know I was trained by Master Jakuufet himself!” “Who?” asked Kena. “Of the Adza Muul Fraternity,” Mireia explained, wondering how she’d managed to remember such a useless fact.  “Adza Muul?” Kena made a face. “Well, that explains a lot.”
December 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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#AwesomeCharacters

Spencer follows the tenets of the Gray Lady, which mostly means honoring the dead in the way they wish to be honored and making sure people who are dying are not alone or in pain. Basically, be kind and do the right thing. 🧵

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts #Wrencer
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Are there any rules your character chooses to live by?

A code that guides their actions?

Have they always had it? Did it come from an external source or from inside? What are the consequences of breaking it?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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#DecemberWorldbuilders 28

#ThroughTheCracks: Let's talk about the aliens of Europa, which live in its subsurface oceans!

They're not technically animals in the taxonomical sense, as they don't share a common ancestor with Earth life, never mind Earth's animals. (1/3)
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 2d
We made it to the last day of Animals Week here in #DecemberWorldbuilders. Tell me about some aquatic creatures in your world. Maybe something that lives in the ocean or a river? However you want to define 'animal' is up to you!
MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #DecemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 4: Animals 28. Are there any aquatic animals in your world? The image shows a cozy town during winter with warm lights. Large mountains are in the background. It is blurred. Snowflakes are around the top words
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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#DecemberWorldbuilders 28!

The East Library sits on the coast of the continent the Library is located (they don't know if it's the only continent in the world), so many of its Guardians are aquatic!

Compared to West's proximity to the Outer Reaches, the sea doesn't offer many threats but...

//?
kiraofthewind.com Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 2d
We made it to the last day of Animals Week here in #DecemberWorldbuilders. Tell me about some aquatic creatures in your world. Maybe something that lives in the ocean or a river? However you want to define 'animal' is up to you!
MonthlyWorldbuilders prompts daily feed card #DecemberWorldbuilders Hosted by Kira of the Wind Week 4: Animals 28. Are there any aquatic animals in your world? The image shows a cozy town during winter with warm lights. Large mountains are in the background. It is blurred. Snowflakes are around the top words
December 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
professoremily.bsky.social
Kena fell first. Mireia fell harder.
Digital sketch by me of Mireia & Kena. Mireia is a young woman with light brown skin, long dark brown hair and gray eyes, wearing a blue top that clasps on one shoulder. Kena is a young man with light brown skin, dark brown curly hair, amber eyes and freckles, and a red phoenix tattoo on his chest & shoulder. He is hugging her from behind and they're gazing at each other affectionately.
December 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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NEW ARTWORK!

I had the great honor of hiring Nush Deco to draw Tynan, the MC of my next book, Merchants of Dance and Hedonism!

Which one is Tynan, you ask? They both are! Tynan's mind got split into two bodies, but they are psychically linked. They are the same person

1 like = 1 fact about Tynan
Tynan from Merchants of Dance and Hedonism, drawn by Nush Deco. Tynan is two people, both shown here, dancing with each other. The masculine Tynan is wearing a suit with sawtooth lapels. The feminine Tynan is in a wide red dress and has a phoenix feather in their hair behind their ear. They are looking up toward the viewer, both with vicious looks on their faces and a wide grin. They are in a ballroom and there are other fancy-dressed people in the background.
December 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
professoremily.bsky.social
#DecemberWorldbuilders 28

Lots of aquatic animals! Most notable are giant sea turtles & manta rays, which show up in a lot of art. Some of the Na'aqals' vehicles are designed after manta rays.

There's also tons of fish! These colorful wrasses are considered sacred to the Sea Mother & Sun Father.
Photo of an ornate wrasse, a vibrant orange fish with bright blue stripes
December 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky

Most of my hits were either repeats I'd done before or spoilery 😅

This is from the opening of #Charagma, my SFF dystopia where all people are marked saved or damned from birth.
As the schoolteacher turned a corner, a man on a numenbike, trailing pale light in his wake, sped past so fast he nearly clipped him, and the schoolteacher barked at him to slow down. As he made his way down the lane, past a towering stone façade bright with advertisements flashing between its columns, a woman made of light materialized, greeted him on behalf of Numentech Inc, and invited him to update the implant in his head. He brushed her off with a “maybe tomorrow.” I am EL, Supreme God of All. Before time began, I was here, and here I shall remain when time has ended. All that has ever come to pass, and all that ever shall, is contained within my perfect knowledge. On the schoolteacher’s brow, a small symbol shone, the size of a coin—an elaborate design of interlaced threads of light. A tattoo whose ink was the very blood of El, shimmering from deep inside the layers of the skin, shifting with perpetual subtle movements like water stirred by a gentle breeze. The schoolteacher had been born with this mark. So had all citizens of Arx Lucis. Everyone who passed by him bore a holy tattoo upon their brow, each similar and yet completely unique. It was the mark of the children of El, the Elect who had been destined for salvation from before the beginning of time. Before you were born, I knew every thought of your heart, every choice you would make. And for those who would choose me, you alone I have set apart for salvation, and placed my charagma upon your brow that all may know you are blessed.
December 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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#AwesomeCharacters

Spencer has gray eyes like his grandfather, that may or may not be a signifier of the Gray Lady's favor. He can see ghosts / spirits that others can't as well as seeing the edges of the veil where it lays beyond the living world.

#Wrencer #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Tell me about your character's eyes!

What color are they? Can they see anything others can't? Are they notable in any other way?

How do they feel about making eye contact with others?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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#AwesomeCharacters

#TheDragonblood: Felix has blue eyes.

Aimetor takes on many forms, but always has neon yellow eyes with vertically slit pupils, identifying them as a Dragonblood.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts (1/3)
charliedeltawrites.bsky.social ❄️Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta ☃️ @charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d
Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters

Tell me about your character's eyes!

What color are they? Can they see anything others can't? Are they notable in any other way?

How do they feel about making eye contact with others?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #writingprompts
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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#Smutcember

This is not cannon, an alternate scene I wrote and then decided not to include in book one. It will likely get recycled a bit into book 2. It's also pretty vanilla.

CW sexual content

#Wrencer #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
“Yes, I want this.” Her arms tightened around his middle, as if to keep him from leaving. Usually a man looming over her made Wren feel trapped. But caged beneath Spencer's reassuring weight, she felt utterly free. “I want you.” “Then stop trying to talk yourself out of it,” he chided her gently before pressing a soft, undemanding kiss to her lips. “Well then,” she teased, wiggling suggestively beneath him. “You should do a better job distracting me.” “As my lady commands.” Wren liked the sound of that. Not the Lady, but rather his lady. And then Spencer moved with startling speed, hooking his hands beneath her knees and dragging her to the edge of the bed. The thrill of it ignited a sizzling heat in her belly, burning away all her worries. Well, almost all of them. “That can’t be comfortable.” Propped on her elbows, she frowned in concern as Spencer knelt on the hard floor, his breath gusting warmly against her thighs. “It’s not my first vigil on my knees.” He grinned, hooking her leg over his shoulder. “Lay back. Let me take care of you.” When he said those words in his velvet rumble, she believed them in a way she hadn’t believed anything for years. It was a revelation, the trust she felt blossom in that moment. Wren sank into the mattress but she felt weightless, floating amid cotton-fluff clouds. Spencer dipped his head, warm breath tickling briefly against the crux of Wren’s legs, before delving into her most intimate places. Every steady stroke pushed her closer to a cliff’s edge. She teetered briefly on the precipice but when Spencer added a thrust of his fingers to the warm glide of his tongue, she tipped over the edge. Muscles drew taut, arching her back off the mattress as pleasure rattled her limbs. The sounds she made were equal parts indecent and incoherent, but Spencer didn’t seem to mind. He chuckled softly against her stomach, clearly pleased with himself. Luxuriating in a warm-honey glow, Wren supposed he’d earned the right to be smug. Spencer crawled over Wren, bed springs creaking, as he dragged them both back up towards the headboard. The contented smile curling her lips filled him with a heady mix of self-satisfaction and burning hunger. It was a pleasant sort of torture, delaying his needs to serve hers, but even Spencer’s near endless well of patience could eventually run dry. Satin skin brushed over his hips as he settled between her thighs, a pilgrim requesting entrance to the holiest of places. “Wren?” he asked, staring into eyes as dark as midnight and just as mysterious. “Yes,” she answered, more of a gasp than a word, rocking impatiently against him. Soft gave way to hard as he sank into her with a groan. There might be nine hells but there was only one heaven, and it was here, where their two bodies joined as one. He moved slowly at first, with purpose, letting every sharp intake of breath and needy whimper guide him. Soon enough, he found a rhythm that seemed to please them both. Wren’s breaths came in short gasps, and she gripped the bars of the bedframe for leverage to meet his every thrust. Pressure built in Spencer and he picked up the pace, hypnotized by the way Wren's breasts bobbed in perfect sync with his movements. The bed creaked and groaned beneath them and he briefly worried that it really might fall apart. But then he was shattering, dancing on the knife’s edge between pleasure and pain, and his name on Wren’s lips was the prayer ushering him home. Spencer waited for his breath to even out and his heart to stop hammering before withdrawing from the warm embrace of Wren’s body. He braced himself against the moment she pulled away, fleeing as she had so many times before, when things between them grew too vulnerable or intimate. But the moment didn’t come. Wren turned on her side and burrowed against him, her back to his front, and yawned sleepily into her pillow. Pleasantly surprised, he curled around her, marveling at how perfectly she fit against him.
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM