Glitched Into Glory – Callie Colby

In its center stood Irian, his back to me, wings fully extended and glowing with a light I’d never seen before—not the usual luminescence of desire, but something deeper, more profound. “Irian?” I called cautiously. He turned, and I gasped. His eyes were glowing the same intense color as his wings, and tears streaked his perfect face. “Jake,” he said, his voice choked with emotion. “You’re here.” “Of course I’m here,” I said, moving toward him.

“Are you okay? What happened?” He shook his head, unable to speak for a moment. “The trial… it showed me…” “Your truth?” I guessed. “Yeah, me too. Not a fun experience.” “What did it show you?” he asked, searching my face. I hesitated, then decided honesty was probably the point of this whole ordeal. “It showed me that I’m afraid of failing you. Of not being good enough. What about you?” Irian’s wings trembled.

“It showed me that I’m afraid of my own feelings. That I’ve hidden behind duty and protocol because I’m terrified of vulnerability.” I reached for his hand, half expecting him to pull away. Instead, he intertwined our fingers tightly. “It showed me something else, too,” he continued, his voice barely above a whisper.

“Something I’ve been refusing to acknowledge.” “What’s that?” I asked, my heart pounding. “That I’m falling in love with you,” he said simply. “And that terrifies me more than the Void Lord ever could.” I stared at him, certain I’d misheard. “You’re… what?” “I know it’s impossible,” he rushed on. “I know we come from different worlds, that I have duties I cannot abandon, that you will eventually return to your realm.

But the truth the caverns demanded was absolute, and this is my truth, Jake. I am falling in love with you.” My mind reeled. Irian—proud, beautiful, royal Irian—was falling in love with me? Gaming-addicted, take-out-dependent, perpetually-underachieving me? “Say something,” he pleaded when I remained silent too long. “Even if it’s to tell me I’m a fool.”

Instead of speaking, I kissed him. It wasn’t gentle or hesitant like our earlier kiss in the clearing. This was desperate, hungry, pouring all the confused emotions swirling inside me into physical contact. He responded immediately, his arms wrapping around me, wings encircling us both in a cocoon of light. When we finally broke apart, both breathing hard, his eyes had returned to their normal violet, though they still shimmered with emotion.

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First edition This book was professionally typeset on Reedsy Find out more at reedsy.com OceanofPDF.com Contents Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Epilogue About the Author OceanofPDF.com Prologue I was three energy drinks deep into a Realm of Eternia marathon when the glitch happened.

Not in the game—in reality. “Just one more quest,” I muttered, thumbs flying across the controller, my character—a level 87 Elven Mage named ButtKicker420—decimating a horde of shadow wraiths. The apartment around me was a tomb of pizza boxes and unwashed laundry. Working from home as a freelance web designer meant I could game until 4 AM and still technically be “functional” the next day. My TV screen flickered. “No, no, no—not now!”

I frantically mashed buttons as the image distorted. I hadn’t saved in hours. The screen went white. Then the white light seemed to… leak? It poured out of the television like liquid moonlight, pooling on my carpet before rising up in tendrils that snaked toward me. “What the actual fu—” The light enveloped me, warm and tingly against my skin.

For a second, I felt weightless, like I was floating in the world’s most comfortable sensory deprivation tank. Then I hit marble. Hard. “Ow, motherfucker!” I yelped, rolling onto my back and blinking up at— holy shit—a vaulted ceiling that soared at least fifty feet above me, made of some iridescent material that looked like mother-of-pearl.

“Is this… the prophesied warrior?” a voice asked, dripping with disdain. I propped myself up on my elbows to locate the speaker, and my brain short-circuited. Standing before me was the most beautiful man I’d ever seen. No—“man” wasn’t quite right.

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