When Starlight Falls

Ruby K 12 stories

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Summary

When starlight falls, darkness does not come quietly. It devours. They called Rosalie the future Luna of the neighboring Bloodfire Phoenix Pack. They said she was fated to Xander,Alpha heir of Bloodfire Phoenix. She adored him blindly. Then her mother dies when she's 13. Her world turns to ash when her biological father gets custody. But it is Xander’s cruelty on the night she leaves that destroys. The boy fate chose for her makes clear one brutal truth: he is glad she's leaving. At 25 Rosalie is a famous model wrapped in diamonds and secrets. Broken and trapped in an abusive relationship that feeds on fear, she bleeds in silence. The only pure thing is seven-year-old Keiyaan, the child she would kill for. Then Xander appears. Older. Darker. More dangerous. He wants forgiveness he doesn't deserve. He doesn't just want to heal her. He wants to drag her demons into the light, teach her that even ruined things can be loved. But Keiyaan’s father returns for his son. As old betrayals surface and blood stains the path home, Rosalie faces a choice between the monster who broke her, the monster who caged her, and the man willing to set the world on fire to prove she was always worthy of more. In the end, the most dangerous thing in the dark isn't the men who want her. It's Rosalie when she finally stops asking and starts taking. Like a phoenix from the ashes, she will rise.