India learned early how to survive by paying attention. Growing up in a small, rough city taught her when to speak, when to soften, and when to protect herself. She carries those instincts into corporate spaces that were never designed with her in mind. Alex has never needed to adapt. Power comes naturally to him. Raised in legacy and expectation, he leads with quiet authority, keeping his emotions tightly controlled and his personal life even more so. When their worlds collide, attraction becomes something neither can name without consequence. Identity, power, and unspoken desire blur the lines they've spent years maintaining.

❛❛i wonder what i look like in your eyes❞ ©𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓

"I give what I receive, lately, I ain't been feelin' loved at all." - Hunxho I was never built to save anybody. Stuck between a past I can't let go of and a future that I don't know the truth about yet. My baby mama knows my worst habits, my soft spots, and exactly how to pull them. My new woman feels like peace-until she starts asking the wrong questions. Sa'Raina came with history. Blood ties. A daughter I barely see and a bond that never really broke, just turned bitter. Sy'Ani was temptation wrapped in calm-fine, quiet, and way more aware than she lets on. This ain't love. It's ego and control-a messy, unspoken arrangement built on late nights, half-truths, and blurred lines nobody wants to claim. Everybody wants something. Nobody's telling the whole truth. This ain't a fairytale. This that hood reality-where sex is loud, secrets are louder, and somebody always pays when a nigga thinks he can have it all.

"are we supposed to shine in this light? or is failure inevitable?..." Journi just wanted to keep her head down and in the books and get her family out the hood but her brother just can't seem to stop bringing trouble to her doorstep. So when her brother Raheem takes from the wrong one and goes into hiding, Journi is snatched by the one they call Joker as payback she then must navigate her way through college and the life she tried to escape. Once in his tower she can see he would ruin her in the worst way. She knows escaping is futile but she tries anyway. Yakhir aka Joker owns the streets of Atlanta there's nothing that slips past him so when a low level dopeboy takes something and thinks he can run off he has another thing coming. Joker snatches the one person he cares about, his baby sister to draw him out. Once he has Journi he instantly knows he's not giving her back. She's his to keep. After laying eyes on the sweet, smart and clever beauty he knows he'd paint his city red behind her. Will the inevitable keep them apart? Or will Journi and Yakhir fight for their love after the ruin? Cover Credit: @KYTHEWRITERR

𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘪, 𝟷𝟿𝟻𝟻 in a town where dirt roads stretch for miles and the summer sun burns hot against cotton fields, there are rules everyone knows. white stays with white. colored stays with colored. and love between the two? that kind of love gets people killed. gracie mae james has spent her whole life doing what she's told. helping on her family's small farm, keeping her head down, and pretending not to hear the cruel words thrown her way. but everything changes the day she crosses paths with richard "scott" miller - the charming, reckless son of one of the town's most respected white families. he's everything she should stay away from. and somehow, he becomes everything she can't. what starts as stolen glances and quiet conversations turns into something far more dangerous - secret meetings by the lake, whispered promises in the dark, and a love neither of them can deny. but in a town built on hatred and old traditions, love like theirs isn't just forbidden. it's deadly. and some stories aren't meant to have happy endings. welcome to. 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚒𝚊 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚢 ©cndylxps

"does he 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝?" "..no." 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐬𝐨

Urban Poly FanFic || Plus Size 18+ Kendrick • Nola • Cornell ** SECOND BOOK OF THREE OF A KIND ** ** CAN BE READ ALONE ** When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.

Urban Poly FanFic || Plus Size 18+ Poet • Imarra • Malik Why choose when you can have both.. ++++++++++++++++++++++ 🎶 "She gimme head & ride dick, that's a laptop" 🎶

Janeisha "Neisha" Bambi has always survived by keeping a low profile. She don't get caught up in the kind of business that comes with bodies, secrets, and street names that echo. But all it takes is one night-one favor for her best friend-to slide her straight into the orbit of Seven "Saint" Carter. Saint is discipline wrapped in menace. A man the streets don't just respect,they fear. The type Neisha promised herself she'd never look at twice. He doesn't chase, beg, or explain. Yet somehow, he does all of this for her. And when that calm, unreadable gaze settles on Neisha, her careful world starts to crack. Now Saint's patience is running out, Neisha's defenses are falling apart and the pull between them is starting to feel less like a choice and more like fate. He's trying to shield her from the life he lives. She's trying to decide if loving him is salvation or self-destruction.

𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇: A former dancer returns home to open a nonprofit ballet studio for young girls, creating the safe space she never had. Her world shifts when she reconnects with the quiet, protective father of a gifted student a man from her past tied to a life of violence he's trying to leave behind. As their bond deepens, old wounds and dangerous histories resurface forcing them both to face what they've buried. Together, they fight for healing, redemption, and a future for the child and themselves proving that even in the same streets that broke them, something beautiful can still grow.