Nobody's Child

ZoinksSc00b

Language: English

Publisher: archiveofourown.org

Published: Jun 25, 2025

Description:

Rumi had never thought too much about what her demon heritage meant beyond the shame it brought her. She could bury it with discipline and routine, yet instinct doesn’t wait for permission. The line between predator and protector is getting thinner. While Rumi tries not to cross it, something inside her already has. Despite everything, she finds herself with skin in her teeth, blood soaking her hands, and Jinu unable to meet her eyes, a bitemark fading on his throat. As her patterns glisten and spread, she’s left asking a question she had never wanted to face: what if this is who she truly is? What if being an “alpha” is what makes her a monster? Or It was assumed that the Golden Honmoon would be achieved before Rumi came of age, so there was no need to teach her how different demon biology was from that of a human’s. Jinu and her suffer the brunt of this ignorance while Gwi-Ma’s plans for them change.