Marrow

MARROW TRISHA WOLFE BRYNNE WEAVER Copyright © 2023 by Trisha Wolfe & Brynne Weaver All rights reserved. Cover design by Qamber Designs. Internal chapter image by Olga Ivanova V, licensed by Shutterstock, image ID number 1245393934. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. Created with Vellum CONTENTS Content Warning Marrow Playlist 1. Celestial Fire 2. Follow 3. What Three Words 4. Core 5. Flick, Snap 6. Compact Tissue 7. Captive 8. Paint it Red 9. Shattered 10. Cold Kiss 11. Winters 12. Twenty-Fifth Floor 13. Strike of the Wheel 14. Cartilage 15. Blue 16. Elskede 17. Inertia 18. Abyss 19. Luminous 20. Arrows 21. Vessels 22. Fallen 23. Marrow 24. Oath Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Authors CONTENT WARNING Please be advised that Marrow is a dark romance with potentially troubling scenes and themes that some readers might find triggering. Potentially triggering content: · Graphic physical violence, torture, and murder · Decaying and dismembered bodies · Explicit language · Death of a sick or injured wild animal · Parental death; loss of close family members · Parental neglect and physical abuse · Chronic illness of a loved one · Untreated PTSD, including flashbacks · Medical procedures and bodily trauma / hospital settings · One sex scene between FMC and another man BEFORE the FMC and MMC are interact with one another on page (no cheating) · Explicit, detailed sexual content. The sexual activity is consensual, though some consensual non-consensual (CNC) activities are depicted. It includes some kinks and behaviors that some readers might find triggering, including breath play, temperature play, impact play, somnophilia, and rough sex. Please contact Brynne Weaver or Trisha Wolfe if you have any questions. MARROW PLAYLIST If you’re reading a digital copy of Marrow, the full playlist can also be downloaded at Apple Music and Spotify. It’s also posted on Brynne’s socials in her Linktree! Chapter 1 - Celestial Fire Paper Love - Allie X I’m not a woman, I’m a god - Halsey Do You? - TroyBoi Chapter 2 - Follow Dreamers - K.Flay Better Off - Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine Chapter 3 - What Three Words Living Hell - Bella Poarch Devil I Know - Allie X Chapter 4 - Core Paranoid - Lauv Stonecold - machineheart Invisible - Lovelife Chapter 5 - Flick, Snap This Town - ELIA EX Anything You Want - HYDDE & MOONZz Chapter 6 - Compact Tissue Afterlife - XYLØ Not So Bad In LA - Allie X Chapter 7 - Captive Rattle the Cage - ELIA EX Honey and Milk - Andrew Belle Evergreen - A Silent Film Chapter 8 - Paint It Red I Don’t Even Care About You - MISSIO Angel - Massive Attack Chapter 9 - Shattered To anyone who dreamt of someone who would burn the world for them, who loved the villain, who rooted for the dark souls in their fairy tales… We hope Jack and Kyrie ignite your beautiful black hearts. “Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.” — Alice Hoffman “I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.” — Gomez, The Addams Family ONE CELESTIAL FIRE KYRIE By the time we’re standing at the gates of damnation, Jack Sorensen will beg me to throw him to the Devil. I will paint our path to Hell with his blood. With his dreams. His aspirations. His failures, each one rendered by my hand. I will leave a trail of his destruction behind us that will shine for all eternity. And I will enjoy every fucking second of his torturous journey… Just as soon as my acceptance speech for the Allistair Brentwood Philanthropy Awards is over. I scan the crowd. Dr. Sorensen’s absence will become a thin scar over