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Seventy-Eight Detour

Wandering_Wayfarer
History never runs straight. It detours. I am Sloane Sterling, historian and detective, suddenly ripped from my time and thrown into centuries I never lived. I thought I could bend history toward equality, toward peace, but the world I step into is cruel, full of lies, ambition, and the weight of choices that punish the heart. As I fight and continue my adventure, I meet people who shape me, and Dannyal is my companion in these journey. In a world where attachment is deemed as "unconventional ineffeciency", his presence is both a shield and a danger to my moral and the system. Yet nothing is free from fate. The true path, I learn, is hidden in seventy-eight fragments of power, held by those whose hearts mirror the cards they possess. Some will guide me. Some will deceive. Each fragment shapes me, strengthens me, body and soul but none comes without cost. To claim them is to survive. To survive is to risk losing everything, including myself. And when the final fragment awaits, the card that could return me to my time, I may find that the greatest battle is not against the world, but against what I have become, and what I wish for. Because some tarots do not bless. They possess. History bends. And so will I. But the deeper I go, the harder it becomes to tell whether I am changing history...or being rewritten by it.
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TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL'S TOUCH

I married a monster to save my sister. Now he won't let me go. I have forty-eight hours to find $750,000, or my sixteen-year-old sister becomes collateral damage for our father's gambling debts. I'm a pediatric nurse with $340 in my bank account and zero options—until a man in a tailored suit finds me at midnight and makes an offer that sounds completely insane: Marry his employer. Ask no questions. Obey without hesitation. In exchange? Every debt erased. My family protected. Forever. I sign the contract without reading it. I don't meet my husband until our wedding day. Killian Archer is the most beautiful—and terrifying—man I've ever seen. Ice-blue eyes that miss nothing. A presence that makes grown men step back. And everyone in this city either worships him or fears him. The ceremony takes eleven minutes. He slides a platinum ring onto my finger like a shackle and says three words that change everything: "You're mine now." I expect a wedding night. Instead, he shows me to a separate bedroom and gives me rules: Don't leave without security. Don't ask about his business. Don't test him. He keeps his distance—cold, controlled, untouchable. But I see the cracks. The way his hands clench when I walk past. The way he watches me like I'm something he wants to devour. The way he stands outside my bedroom door at 3am like he's fighting a war with himself. He says our marriage is just business. Everything about him screams obsession. Then I discover the truth: Killian didn't just pay my father's debts. He created them. Bought out the loan sharks. Orchestrated my desperation. Trapped me so completely that I had no choice but to come to him. Because six months ago, Killian Archer saw me in a coffee shop and decided I was his. He doesn't do love. Doesn't do relationships. Doesn't let anyone close. But he'll manipulate me, bind me, cage me—make me want to stay even if it destroys us both. When I confront him, he doesn't apologize. Doesn't even pretend to feel guilty. "I take what I want, Isla. And I've wanted you since the moment I saw you." I should run. I try to run. But Killian's enemies are circling, and the most dangerous man in the city is somehow the safest place I've ever been. Then his rival kidnaps me to get revenge—and I watch Killian become something worse than a monster to get me back. I should be horrified by the violence. The darkness. The blood on his hands. Instead, I realize I'm falling in love with this beautiful, broken, obsessive man who would burn the entire world down before letting me be hurt. Our contract says eighteen months. But Killian Archer doesn't know how to let go. And I'm starting to think I don't want him to.
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