She wasn’t surprised that everyone understood her decision. Ewan even offered to come, giving up all the snacks he had allotted to go and support his master.
“When I called them last night, Axton said for you to return on the ship as planned,” Tori told him as she stood beside him on the steps of the Fortress. “Axton says that he...
2022-11-19 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWas it a tragic love story or just a tale of revenge? No matter how Tori looked at it, it was both. On one side, a young, fragile love was broken after betrayal and madness. On the other side, one partner resented the other so much that she asked to be buried in a place where he could never find her, if only to deprive him of the ability to be n...
2022-11-17 06:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostConfusion filled Axton’s face as he seemed to weigh the comcry in his hand. The corner of his lip twitched, and he shook his head. “I...I don’t think I heard you correctly....”
Tori heard her mother take a deep breath and slow her voice. “Axton, Rebecca Walter, your father’s mistress, was found dead this morning on Sun Garden...
2022-11-15 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Why are you crying?” JP asked his sister with crinkled eyes.
Sonia sucked in a breath and shook her head as her eyes watched Tori trot around the corral on a pure black horse.
“I’m just so happy for her,” Sonia said. “She’s such a beautiful horse.”
Henrik squinted and gave her a questioning look. “Are you hap...
2022-11-12 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe top of the southern battlements had been an original part of the Fortress, but in the past centuries, it had been renovated and expanded to become less a defensive position to observe territory and fire arrows from, and more a rooftop garden. When Grammie was the ruling Marchioness, that was what she used it for: growing plants.
On one...
2022-11-10 06:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you for your help tonight. I’m sorry you had to go through that.” Tori hated that tonight’s dinner was so mentally exhausting. Tomorrow was the wedding and she had to wake up early to prepare for the ceremony as the groom’s sister, but all she wanted to do was sleep in and put off dealing with her mother’s sister, and mother...
2022-11-08 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t want to be the villain here,” Tori said as she cornered her brothers on their way back to their rooms. “But which one of you took it?”
“Took what?” Sebastian had a pleasant look on his face despite his ruffled hair and dust coated clothing. As soon as the war games party had returned, they went to eat at a large gril...
2022-11-06 03:32:47 +0000 UTC View PostAxton’s lip twitched as he stood outside Fiona’s chicken enclosure, seemingly trying to hold back a smile. A few paces away, Tori stared at her niece’s prized rooster with a neutral expression. Every so often, she heard Axton let out a wheeze or snicker.
Her eyes narrowed. “Just let it out.”
“No, no.” Axton’s voice we...
2022-11-03 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostShe kissed flushed cheeks of the giggling toddler in her arms and then nuzzled the side of her head. “Hi, Fifi! Have you made yourself at home?”
“Hmm...yes! I like it here!” Fiona beamed and tightened her hold around Tori’s neck, giving her a sloppy kiss on the cheek. “But I still missed you.”
“Aww...I missed you, too...
2022-11-01 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m not judging you.”
“Yes, you are. I can see it in your eyes.” Tori narrowed her gaze as JP looked around the private Tres Arcos dock that was around a cove and led to beachside fortification.
“I didn’t say anything.”
“You’re thinking that I’m rich.” She watched JP raise his arms and seemed to motion ...
2022-10-29 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHow influential was the charm? How much of Dimitri, and the other love interests’, affection was sincere and how much was the result of the charm?
Tori shifted uncomfortably at Dimitri’s words. She couldn’t rule out the chance that without the charm, one of the love interests could have sincerely fallen in love with Alessa. Dimitri w...
2022-10-27 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“How could you do this?” Ilyana’s face was red, and her lower lip trembled with indignation. “After what he did and said about you?”
“Do you have time to do this? Our final exams are coming and you’re short of time as is,” Henrik said with a frown as he sat on a plush chair. Ilyana paced in front of the hearth at Cafe Fortu...
2022-10-25 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post📢 NEW CHARGING SCHEDULE!!!
I can finally switch to the alternate payment system for patrons to be charged on the date that they signed up, not at the first of the month. If this option existed when I started, I would’ve definitely taken it, but at the time, we only had once choice.
✨Charges for Novembe...
2022-10-24 03:28:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe Guthrys brought Dimitri back from their village.
In some cases, being out in the countryside, without the pressure and stress of a bustling, chaotic city, could help a person relax and recover without too much external stimulation. However, the countryside didn’t always have the medical specialists and technology to meet the particul...
2022-10-22 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTori stood with Kasen behind her, staring at the table with five men around it. Several of them were avoiding her gaze as her eyes narrowed. She wasn’t angry. She just wanted to know what they were doing there.
“I was not informed that there were visitors on the island,” she said in a low voice. Okay, so I’m a little anno...
2022-10-20 05:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHe couldn’t remember when he started to hate his half-brother. Was it when his mother died? Or was it when he figured out what severely weakened her to the point that she could not recover from her disease?
Axton had been sent to the palace to befriend and accompany Piers, who was an unsociable child, but when he was older, he realized i...
2022-10-18 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostShe nearly whipped her head back to look at her brother. Tori’s mouth opened just a bit as Kasen slid a single sheet of paper across the table.
He just straight up went and ordered him to do it. Kasey...you are amazing.
She mentally praised her brother as Montan’s face paled. His wide eyes looked across at Kasen with a m...
2022-10-15 05:47:37 +0000 UTC View Post“You are studying very well, but you don’t have to push yourself. You’re only eight. There is plenty of time for you to become more than proficient with charms and energy. If you have any questions, ask. There is no shame in struggling or not understanding the first time,” Kasen said as they stood beneath the shade of the tree, beside th...
2022-10-13 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“One coin for Fifi.”
“Thank you, Auntie!” The little girl clutched her shiny gold coin that Tori won from Gideon against her with gleaming eyes.
“One coin for Robi.”
“Thank you, Auntie Tori.” The boy in the wheelchair smiled as he accepted the coin.
“One coin for Marco and one for Mateo.”
“Than...
2022-10-11 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhy did it slip her mind that early in the ‘game’, Alessa could possibly get something from the love interests to help her along her way? Wasn’t this common in games?
Link goes into the cave and the old man tells him ‘it’s dangerous to go alone. Take this.’ Then he hands him a sword. That charm is the sword. Tori drew ...
2022-09-24 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I am officially on a scheduled writing break for 2 weeks. This was announced a few times - as well as the countdown on RR, but I don't recall if it was announced here.
🔊 Break: September 26-October 7
✍️ Regularly Scheduled Updates Resume: October 10 (Monday). 2022-09-24 04:28:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The indignation was palpable, and Tori could only stand there, staring at the old man while wanting to both scream and throw the table at him in frustration. She couldn’t find any more words to express herself, so she could only stare at him as the tiniest thought of ‘don’t hit the elderly’ echoed in her head.
The Emperor Emeritus ...
2022-09-22 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWas this how it felt when people said a ‘bolt from the blue’? Tori stared at Gideon and everyone else stared at her after her sudden comment caught them by surprise.
Gideon seemed especially stunned to hear her words and furrowed his brows as he jerked his head back. “What?”
“Rosiek gave Hart the Golden Cow?” Tori asked a...
2022-09-20 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“No, they are not going night sailing while drunk. Are they crazy?” Tori frowned as she sat at a table and looked up at one of the imperial knights. “It’s too dangerous! They could easily lose their balance, fall into the water, and drown.”
“It’s fine, pupil! I can swim!” a red-faced Master Ramos assured her as beside him, ...
2022-09-17 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was approaching the three-year mark of when Tori woke up on a bed in Presidio. She counted another three months or so and then there was her rebirth anniversary. In that time, Alessa Hart had always been the source of her, the villainess’, ‘death flags’, as the genre would call them.
Alessa was the heroine, and it was the heroine...
2022-09-15 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Tori had revealed who she told Henrik to send an invitation to, Ilyana and Albert began yelling at once, spooking Alexander who was in his basket next to Tori. The other two teenagers had bombarded her with questions starting with ‘why’ to ‘are you crazy’.
She was not. At least not in extreme means.
Henrik had told her t...
2022-09-13 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I need to ask you an important question.” Tori stared at Piers, who sat to her left at a table above Cafe Fortuna. Piers gave her a stoic nod, expressing his permission. “Is your father going to pay for it?”
Axton squinted from her right.
While funding was an important question, they all knew it was a bit crass to charge the...
2022-09-10 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTori knit her brows together.
There was a lot to unpack with what she was seeing. Even though it seemed that they only caught the tail end of the conversation, it was clear that Fabian, at the very least, suggested that Adrien’s hospitalization wasn’t because a ‘feral woman’ randomly attacked him. Tori didn’t know how much Fabian...
2022-09-08 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Fifi, we’re going to eat!” Tori raised her arm and waved at the ice rink she had created parallel to the creek, near the resort tents. Numerous children and a few adults were skating around the large rink as laughing and screaming filled the air.
The little girl bundled up with a yellow chick-shaped knit cap topped with a red pom-po...
2022-09-06 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Did you do it on purpose?” Henrik asked as the carriage moved along.
Tori kept her eyes out the window. “What if I did?”
“What did you tell her that made her lose her mind?” Ilyana asked beside her. Tori pursed her lips. “Was it about Instructor Ignatius?”
Henrik raised a brow. “Is she not over him? Isn’t s...
2022-09-03 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post