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    When Nesta has to attend her sister's engagement party, she dreads seeing her ex-boyfriend there. Thankfully, a knight in shining armour saves the day. For Neris week on tumblr.

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    07 Nov 2023

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  2. Public Bookmark 23

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    Nesta Archeron has a buffer: taverns and their distractions. Noise keeps the worst thoughts at bay. Movement keeps her from sinking. Being the life of the party is easier than sitting alone with what she’s become.

    Lucien Vanserra understands this better than most. He’s spent centuries learning how to read a room, how to smile at the right moment, how to make himself useful—wanted, entertaining. In crowds, he’s effortless. In stillness, he drifts. Parties are where he remembers how to exist.

    After more than a year of failing to connect with his mate, Lucien is offered an unexpected olive branch—and chooses to meet Nesta on ground he understands. This is a story about two people who come alive in motion, who learn—unexpectedly—that not all joy is a distraction, and not every party is a place to hide.

    Sometimes healing doesn’t happen in silence. Sometimes, it happens on the dance floor.

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    27 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 20

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    Nesta’s first holiday without her kids ends in a one-night stand (sure, Jan) with the hottest man she’s ever seen.

    She expects it to be a one-off. Hopes for it.
    She does not need this kind of distraction.

    Except he keeps showing up everywhere - the grocery store, the laundromat, her favorite coffee shop - and suddenly she’s playing competitive Pretty Pretty Princess, learning to change a tire, and watching this man charm her twins like the easiest thing in the world.

    Nesta has rules.
    Cassian has muscles.
    It’s not a fair fight.

    A soft, chaotic attempt at a rom-com about accidental connection, (un)intentional love, and the slow, delicious unraveling of two people into each other.

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    24 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 19

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    In the end, she had been given one semi-normal Solstice. One where, while still feeling more than a little outcast, she had been embraced by enough of these people to feel something other than abject despair or disdain for the fae holiday.

    Naturally, she’d ruined all of that just in time for the next one.

    Semi-good graces one year, back on the periphery the next.

    Such was the price for saving the universe.

    Nursing a warm cup of mulled wine, she observed the rituals of the day in solemn silence.
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    In which Solstice is a time to be grateful for those we love, and in the aftermath of Bryce Quinlan wreaking havoc in their world, some holiday magic just might be what is needed to heal the wounds left behind.

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    23 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 26

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    “Nesta.”

    She doesn’t turn. Doesn’t move.

    The bond in his chest is screaming. Her emotions crash over him in waves—despair, worthlessness, exhaustion, and underneath it all, a terrible calm. The calm of someone who’s made a decision.

    “Step down.” His voice comes out harder than he intends. The voice of a general. But inside, he’s begging for her to listen.

    “Go away.” Her voice is hollow. Empty. Nothing like the sharp, cutting tone he’s used to. Nothing like the fire he’s always admired.

    This is worse than her anger. It’s defeat.

    “No.” He takes a careful step closer, hands out like he’s approaching a spooked animal. “I’m not leaving.”

    “I don’t want you here.”

    “I don’t care.” Another step. The bond is pulling tight in his chest, urging him closer. Keep her safe. Keep her alive. “I’m not leaving you alone.”

    He feels a flicker of something. Confusion, maybe. Or frustration that he won’t just let her do this.

    “Please,” she whispers, and the word breaks his heart. “Please just go.”

    “Not a chance, sweetheart.”

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    When Cassian realizes how deep his harsh words hurt Nesta on Soltice, he takes her out of Velaris and brings her to Illyria.

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    23 Dec 2025