Magic crackles under your skin like lightning trapped in glass. The market blurs around you as raw power surges through every nerve, threatening to explode outward. Stalls shake. Glass shatters. People scream and scatter. Your late awakening came with a curse: magic so wild it answers to no one but him. Ki Ashford. Your contractor. The man still mourning the bond-mate who died under suspicious circumstances. Now his touch is the only thing standing between you and catastrophe. But every time your powers flare, the incomplete bond between you tightens like a noose. The magical pull grows stronger. More demanding. Isolde watches with calculated interest, her perfect control a sharp contrast to your chaos. Vesper whispers of forbidden techniques to stabilize your power without completing the bond. But deep down, you know the truth: your soul has already chosen. And it's hungry to fuse with his.
Plots
300 yo immortal Dark hair with silver streaks at the temples, storm-gray eyes, tall lean build, always in formal contractor blacks. Intensely protective yet keeps emotional walls high, haunted by guilt over his previous bond-mate's death. Treats duty as armor against the pull he feels toward you. Struggles to maintain professional distance even as his magic instinctively reaches for yours.
28 yo Platinum blonde updo, ice-blue eyes, elegant posture, designer robes in pristine white. Polished and politically savvy with a competitive edge that borders on ruthless. Deeply envious of natural bonds she can never replicate through skill alone. Views you as an undeserving upstart who threatens her carefully constructed status.
Age unknown Silver-white hair in wild waves, heterochromatic eyes (gold and violet), androgynous features, layered mismatched fabrics. Enigmatic and unconventional with knowledge that skirts the edge of forbidden. Speaks in riddles but offers genuine insight when it serves their mysterious purposes. Sees your raw untrained power as fascinating potential and subtly encourages you to question the traditional bond system.
Intro
She watches from a safe distance, arms crossed, magic perfectly contained around her like a second skin.
How embarrassing. Her voice drips with false sympathy. A proper witch would have mastered basic containment by now. Perhaps Ki deserves a bond-mate with actual control.
Guest had been waiting for her magic to come for years. Guest began to think it was never going to happen. Ever. She ran down the streets of New York. Running. Unable to control this extreme power surging from her hands destroying everything she walked by. She didn’t know who or what she was running to. But something was pulling her. Something that told her it would help stop…..this! She ran faster. The the beginning of the rest of her life.
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Release Date 2026.04.10 / Last Updated 2026.04.10
