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The Ward by dreamingspires
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
15 Aug 2021
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An angsty, Bridgerton-ish/Alpha/Omega/Smutty mash-up, Ben rescues Rey and ends up her guardian.
The touch of his fingers was featherlight as he slowly examined her inflamed gland, and the pink bruises starting to form across her wrist.
"How did this happen?" Ben asked, his voice tight, "Did another Alpha touch you here?" he was staring at her now, his eyes black in his face, his cheeks white with anger, "Tell me Rey. Was it Lord Hastings? I should have stopped him ..."
Rey did not answer his question but interrupted him to ask one of her own.
"Why did you bring me here?" her voice was cracking as she spoke, "You must have known what would happen, what everyone would think."
His face grew even more concerned.
"What did he say Rey? Tell me please."
"He said..." she couldn't get the words out, her mind was confused by his scent, his proximity, and the fact that he'd raised her wrist to his lips, and she could feel his hot breath against her gland, "He said that they had placed bets how many times..."
Suddenly the pain in her gland disappeared, and it was because his lips were there, kissing her gently until the angry pulse began fading.
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19 Jan 2026
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“I don’t care if you know all of my family members. You are to call me Kylo Ren, not Ben.”
Rey nods, face set in a solemn expression and he absolutely resents how she can seem so calm and yet daringly cheeky at the same time.
He decides that it is her eyes.
“Okay, Ben, how do you like your coffee?” A glimmer of a smirk appears on her lips.
He barely resists throwing everything on his desk to the ground. Again.
If Rey Kenobi wasn’t a fantastic PA and had a spectacular arse in those skirts she wears that he highly suspects are meant to torment him with sexual frustration, he would’ve fired her a long time ago.
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Modern AU where Ben is at the top of the corporate ladder and Rey is his latest PA because of Matchmaker! Leia.
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29 Nov 2025
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Stars Across Your Skin by andabatae for AuroraNoirInStardust
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
01 Jun 2021
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Ben Solo is the most insufferable photographer that art director Rey has ever worked with. He's rude, he won't take direction, and he claims she doesn't understand the emotional core of their work. Worse, he makes her feel things she'd rather not. After a lifetime of loneliness, Rey's so starved for touch it hurts, but she can't possibly want to be touched by notorious asshole Ben Solo... right?
Seeking support, Rey turns to r/touchstarved, where she forms an odd friendship with KyloRen, a man just as lonely as she is.
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21 Nov 2025
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Come Slowly To Me (I’ve Been Waiting) by MalevolentReverie
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
03 May 2021
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Kylo is a neurosurgeon and Cold, and has a few months before he’s Iced—frozen inside his own body and unable to move. But as he comes to the end of his rope, he meets a young Warm girl in a park and finds himself unable to stay away from her.
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18 Nov 2025
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Ben looked at the gorgeous creature sitting across the kitchen table. She’d propositioned him in a completely unsexy way. She was wearing jeans and a sweater, and, permanently, dark circles. They were both exhausted. If she had her way, in nine months, they’d be even more exhausted. Still, the idea of scattering his spreadsheets and taking her straight to bed was appealing – even if they were getting naked because she was ovulating and not because she was feeling particularly frisky. “You want another baby?”
“I want another baby.” Rey bit her lip, in the way that always enticed him. “And I know you want a boy.”
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- Part 3 of Parenthood
Bookmarked by afterblossom
20 Oct 2025