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I can't wait to make a million more first times by Littledidyouknow
Fandoms: The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros
21 Dec 2025
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Violet Sorrengail hated Xaden Riorson.
She hated, hated, hated him.But he made it so hard to stay away.
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28 Jan 2026
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At 18, Xaden's future is bright. He's following in his father's footsteps, his friends are more like family, and he has a girl he loves more than anything.
At 33, Xaden has it all, on the outside looking in. He's a firefighter. His friends are more than family. He has a beautiful woman on his arm. But he's drowning in recent grief, his father is long since gone, and the girl he loved more than anything? He hasn't seen her in 15 years.
When she's suddenly back in his life, can he find a way back to himself? Can he find a way back to her?
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- Part 2 of From The Embers
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20 Jan 2026
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When Violet Sorrengail is eighteen years old, her olympic dreams turn to dust and she swears to never attend another swim meet again. Six years later, she’s reinvented herself. As the best media manager Scribed has to offer, she’s well-traveled, well-paid and entirely content with life.
Enter Xaden Riorson—olympian, gold medallist, world record holder…devil incarnate. No one’s ever gotten under Violet’s skin quite like him. From the moment they met she’s hated him, so when Violet’s co-worker is forced to vacate her position with Team USA and she finds herself in Paris, she swears to stay as far away from him as possible.
Unfortunately for her, he never got the memo.
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19 Jan 2026
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I straighten the sleeves of my new uniform—a stiff but slightly oversized black suit jacket with a camisole that sits a little lower on my chest than I’d like and matching black slacks, with a pair of black stilettos in my soft leather bag for when I get to the office. One of Mira’s old suit jackets, because I couldn’t bring myself to go out and buy my own. Because this is not where I was supposed to be going today.
While mom had prepared Mira and Brennan for a career in big law—at the massive international firm that bears her name—I’d tagged along with dad since grade school, learning how to help the city’s poor. I’d planned a career in nonprofit work, just as dad had, and had just started my bachelor’s degree in social work so that I’d be better prepared. I’d intended to spend summers as a legal assistant at various nonprofits during undergrad, then law school here in the Bay.
But then Brennan had some sort of breakdown and disappeared, and everything fell apart.
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15 Jan 2026
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”You’re a single mom. I’m a single dad. Us single parents need to look out for one another.”
Violet knew Xaden was right in principle, but he wasn’t just any other single dad. He was the father of her favorite student, and the man she thought she’d never see again, when she left all those years ago.
But here he was - shirtless. In her kitchen.
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Prequel to ‘Here we are (no one else)’ but told from Violet’s POV. The timeline will eventually converge and can be read in tandem, but both works can be read as standalones.Series
- Part 2 of But still I’ll find you there
Bookmarked by pierog944
07 Jan 2026