«Ti paga?» gli chiesi sovrappensiero; si voltò verso di me con le sopracciglia aggrottate, così indicai con la testa la borsa che cadeva al centro del suo petto. «L'università. Ti paga per scattare foto a tutti gli eventi?» Harry e la sua macchina fotografica erano praticamente un tutt'uno, ma mi ero sempre chiesta se lo facesse solo per hobby o se ci guadagnasse anche qualcosa. Tuttavia quella che a me sembrava essere una domanda lecita era, ai suoi occhi, probabilmente stupida, poiché si lasciò scappare uno sbuffo divertito. «No, non mi paga.» [...] «Sono belle» dissi con sincerità, riferendomi alle fotografie. Sollevai lo sguardo per osservarlo quando non rispose e, anche se non mi ringraziò, vidi comunque un sorriso compiaciuto combattere per spuntare sulle sue labbra piene.

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"Ci sono ben diciotto ragioni per cui lo chiamano il Minotauro." • VINCITORE WATTYS 2020 DISPONIBILE IN LIBRERIA E SU AMAZON

"Smoking is bad, you know." The placid voice speaks up from the distant dark corner, nothing to see but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry. "It's the least of my problems," I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris valley my throat when I suck delicately. He exhales a chuckle of cynical amusement, his footsteps getting every step clearer to my eardrums until I eventually sense body heat burning my back. "And why is that?" He whispers over my shoulder, hands inviting themselves to grip the railing in front of me so I become a prisoner between his inked arms. I swallow. "Because you'll be the one to kill me first." // Aven Brooks is hired to take pictures for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite-dreamed university. However, when her lenses accidentally capture more than just cheeky sound checks and performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a band. Appalled and frightened, she's trapped. *HIGHEST RANKINGS* #1 IN HARRYSTYLES #1 IN ONEDIRECTION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO @happydays1d NOT ALLOWING TRANSLATIONS! CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE / DRUG ABUSE / SEXUAL CONTENT / DESCRIPTIVE VIOLENCE / MENTAL HEALTH READ AT OWN RISK!

Harry Styles; CEO of 'Pleasing', single dad to two children, prioritizes his job over anything else. Edora Winters; fresh out of college, a nursery practitioner living in the heart of Los Angeles, prioritizes her job over anything else. What happens when Edora, a woman who spends her time protecting children, comes across Harry, a man who spends his days neglecting his children? Even better, what happens when a drunken meet up in Las Vegas leads to a wedlock, to a child of their own, binding them together for years to come? STARTED: 6TH NOVEMBER 2021 FINISHED: 6TH NOVEMBER 2022