"We could be more than just colleagues, Sophie." • • • It's been years since Alexander took off into his business and got so absorbed, he lost the one girl who kept his brilliantly smart head out of the clouds. Now they're both grown up and living each their separate lives. Although not so separately after all... - Hold on to your panties, because the genius is loose again.

|Mature Content| This story takes place a few months after Avengers: Age of Ultron. (2016) Bruce Banner never left the team and is currently dedicated to researching and creating things in the laboratories with Tony as well as helping in the Medicine Wing whenever the team needs it. Tony was able to rescue Thor before he drowned in the water and with the help of Asgard's advanced technology, they were able to heal him. He usually takes turns between the earth and his planet. Helping the Avengers when they need it and, trying not to rule Asgard. Bucky Barnes // The Winter Soldier, was rescued by Natasha Romanoff in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and is on the mend throughout the book. You find yourself opening your eyes in the middle of nowhere. Your memory is completely blank except for basic things about you, like your name. Confused, you decide to walk until you find a place or someone to ask for help, but instead you find a building that would later become your home and people that would become your family. The Avengers offer to take you in, welcoming you as one of their own while Doctor Banner and SHIELD try to discover who you are and why your memory failed. But... "Seek and you shall find." Right? (Bucky Barnes x female reader)

Running from hell isnʼt easy. Especially when someoneʼs dragging you back down into it. Belligerent, brash and always in shades of black, Freya is hardly a lady. Hidden away by her father, sheʼs lived a normal life despite being born into the dark waters of New Yorkʼs underworld. Heʼs cold, cruel and calculating, with a proclivity for destruction. Feared by even Made Men, Torren is the boss of the stateʼs most leachorous crime syndicate. Freya hates his crudity and possessiveness, but she canʼt deny the way her breath hitches at his rough touch, the deep timbre of his voice, and his dark, heated gaze. Torren hates her disobedience, her recklessness, and her chaos. To him, sheʼs only something to be tamed. And after he slips a ring on her hand, snatching away her future, she makes only one vow---to become his biggest torment.

Academic Rivals to Lovers in a Boarding School ..... "You wanna know the really dumb meaning behind my name?" He muses and I walk ahead of him. "Nope." "Basically, it means the transporter of goods by cart or wagon, it's from an old french word I believe. You wanna know yours?" "You looked up mine?" I question, hiding the small smile on my face, because I'm mad at him or whatever. For... I don't know why but I'm mad at him because I am. Carter catches up to me, grinning to himself. "Emilia means rivals, it's derived from the root of some latin word. Isn't that strange?" That's just a coincidence, he's probably lying anyway. "Yeah, real peculiar." I reply. ..... #2 - onebedtrope 16/06/22 #1 - mila 16/06/22

*Sequel to Crossing the Lines but can be read as a stand alone* Growing up, many people are taught there are lines. The line between ethics and morals, right and wrong, love and hate. People are raised to know the difference between the two, making them to be better citizens of society. Then there are others, us. The criminals, the elites, the heirs. Hell, some of us are all of the above. We grow up in a world where the lines are blurred. Besides, if we knew about them, what's keeping us from attempting to cross them? ----------------------- Aria Russo is the heiress to the Sicilian mafia. She may be the spitting image of her, once normal, mother but she grew up in her fathers world. A world where there is evil, bloodshed, and wrongdoings. Sadly, for Aria and her friends, this world also included Stonebridge. Stonebridge Academy is one of the top schools in the world. Not only do you have to be smart to get in, but rich as well. Stonebridge is the epitome of "Don't ask, don't tell", with students from all different backgrounds and all different means of money. Will Stonebridge Academy teach Aria about the lines in this world, or will it help her get better at crossing them?