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1. The need for air. by So_oaiiii

   Fandoms: Sinners (2025)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   23 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Annie/Elijah "Smoke" Moore
   • Annie (Sinners 2025)
   • Elijah "Smoke" Moore
   • Pearline (Sinners 2025)
   • Grace Chow
   • Elias "Stack" Moore
   • Annie's mother - Freeform
   • the twins mother (mentioned)
   • Romance
   • Yearning
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Oral Sex
   • Fluff
   • Mental Abuse
   • from her mother
   • Bridgerton AU
   • Angst
   • Unhealthy dressing aid
   • mentions of illness
   • Women not having much freedom or expected to all be the same
   • So mucb longing i live on that

   Summary

   Annette is squeezed into a dress by her Modiste and maids using a corset made from hell, at the behest of her mother, just before the start of the Dowager's ball. Her mother was determined to get Annette married before she reaches spinster age. Annette has to follow her mother's wishes, while finding it hard to breathe. Does not help when it gets so suffocating, dealing with her mother's cruel comments and actions, that she needs to find a way to get the corset off immediately, one way or another. Elijah Moore, has a knife.

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   Chapter 2 added!

   Series

   • Part 16 of Love in waiting

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   19,793

   Chapters:

   2/?

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