Elani Covington always understood sacrifice. Raised by parents whose love survived long before power ever touched their family name, she grew up believing loyalty meant protecting the people you love - even when it costs you everything. With only two months left before graduating university, Elani thought she still had time to decide who she wanted to become outside of her family's legacy. Then grief changed everything. Now, with her family's future hanging by a thread, Elani is forced into a marriage that could either save them all or destroy what remains. She knows the rules of their world. The silence. The bloodshed. The deals made behind closed doors. But knowing the game and wanting to be part of it were always two different things. Alessio Moretti learned that lesson young. Sent from Italy to oversee the western branch of the Sicilian mafia, Alessio was raised between the softness of his mother's love and the ruthless expectations of his father. Quiet, calculating, and impossible to read, he became the kind of man people underestimated until it was too late. A charming face hiding a deadly hand. With his father dying and war brewing beneath the surface of the city, Alessio is left with a choice that could cost him everything his family built. And somewhere between grief, loyalty, and a marriage neither of them truly chose, two lives become tied together in ways neither of them could've prepared for. Because in their world, love was never the dangerous part. Survival was.

"𝙙𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣. 𝙞𝙛 𝙞 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪?" 𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩, 𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘺𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱, 𝘥𝘢𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳, 𝘬𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳... (𝙠𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙧 𝙭 𝙤𝙘) (𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩²) (𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢: 𝙟𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙚́ 𝙖𝙞𝙠𝙤) 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙧! 𝙞 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙥𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙩𝙬𝙤, 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙤𝙘𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙨

Raina Thompson never wanted to act. She only took a background job on 'Indemnity of the Heart', a sweeping wartime romance, for a paycheck. After an expected outcome on set, Raina is offered the starring role of this prestigious movie, desperate for a new face. Her co-star, Clark Crawford, is the son of Hollywood royalty, trying to prove he's more than a 'nepo baby'. But critics doubt him, and the fans doubt her. With the added pressure of successfully delivering their on-screen chemistry, their roles demand. The lines between performance and something else could easily be blurred. A story built on desire and heartbreak, Raina must survive a world she never meant to enter.

Erik left more than just his girl behind. It was time to keep some of his promises.

Sade winters working her normal job at the bakery finishing up last touches late at night but what happens when a gun shot pulls her out her thoughts Roman Petrov a professional assassin getting to get rid of a target he's been assigned to kill But what happens when he comes in contact With a red headed women

"ᴡʜᴀᴛᴇᴠᴇʀ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴs ᴛᴏ ᴜs, ʏᴏᴜ ᴘʀᴏᴍɪsᴇ ᴛᴏ sᴛᴀʏ ʙᴇsɪᴅᴇ ᴍᴇ ɴᴏ ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ ᴡʜᴀᴛ, ʀɪɢʜᴛ ʏ/ɴ?" "ɪ ᴘʀᴏᴍɪsᴇ! ᴀғᴛᴇʀ ᴀʟʟ, ɪᴍ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴀʟɪᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ᴏғ ʏᴏᴜ!" "ʏᴇᴀʜ..." ➪ᴛᴀᴋᴇs ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ ʙᴇғᴏʀᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀғᴛᴇʀ Gᴏᴊᴏ's ᴘᴀsᴛ ᴀʀᴄ (ᴄʜ 65-79) ᴀɴᴅ ᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ Vᴏʟᴜᴍᴇ 0 ➪ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ/ɢᴏʀᴇ ➪ᴛʀᴀɢᴇᴅʏ

003, aka "Dahlia Pierce," broke out of the labs when she was only 13. The experiments that were done on her caused her to gain control of the world surrounding her. Her ability to manipulate matter itself unparalleled. Anything and everything surrounding her is hers to play with even the weather itself. Her other abilities include viewing memories of the people around her, hijack or "puppet" the mind of anyone in the world she sought to control, and sense the energy of those with supernatural abilities. When she was in the labs, she was "close" with only one other child. A little girl she knew as Eleven. When she turned 13 and could no longer be controlled, she was deemed "Too High Risk." One day after she had enough, she retaliated on the guards and doctors. Then, she broke free. After she escaped, she made friends and found herself down in New Orleans. But now, at the age of 17, she packs up and moves to Hawkins, Indiana. For a year now, she sensed the abilities of one she thought to be dead. Her little "sister." Eleven. She heads to Hawkins in the hopes of finding her, which proves to be more difficult than not. There, she meets the whole gang as well as a certain mullet headed hothead named Billy. This story will touch on Racism. I do not own the rights to these characters. Billy Hargrove x OC Starting the second season

❝ 𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥. ❞ (𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟏) (𝐀𝐔) (𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐜 𝐱 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝) 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃: 𝟑𝟎/𝟑/𝟐𝟔 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐃: 𝟐𝟎/𝟖/𝟐𝟔

√ 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐱 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬. [𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐞𝐦 𝐨𝐜 𝐱 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞]