Jade/Ike || nowhere else tonight we should be
morning glories | T (swearing, sexual themes) | 28,000 words | romcom | future fic | basically nora roberts tribute
You would think Jade Ellsworth has it all.
She is attractive, headstrong — successful, even. A little unworldly, maybe — very single, definitely — but she wouldn’t be moving to NYC for an incredible job if she weren’t doing something right. And for the most part, that’s all true. But she also wouldn’t be uprooting a perfectly good life if she weren’t in need of a new beginning. Wouldn’t be so blasé about it if she hadn’t had to do it once before.
Truth is, she’d assumed that if she just somehow made it to her eighteenth birthday, then it would all be smooth sailing from there. But it’s been a decade now since she set fire to her prep school and all the nightmares inside it — and maybe it’s time to admit that being a veteran of Morning Glory Academy seems like a lifelong affliction. For better or worse, there’s no moving past the death, magic, and messy relationships of her youth — particularly not when the messiest of them all is about to crash back into her life without so much as a courtesy warning.
Enter Ike: wearer of scarves, player of women, destroyer of dimensions. Not the love of her life, but certainly something far more complicated.
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