"You're the fucking reason why we've got left!" he shouted "Oh, I'm the reason!?" he groaned out of frustration, running his hand through his hair. "didn't I just said you were?" "fuck you!" I shot back, throwing sand at him. he glared before running after me, catching up fast. his hands grabbed my waist, pushing me down into the sand. our eyes locked, breaths heavy. the anger on his face was clear. my bikini top had slipped, with my nipple exposing me. "don't fucking play with me, indigo," he said voice low, fixing my bikini top before pulling away. his eyes lingered on mine for a moment longer before he stood up. --- 𝐓𝐖𝐎 rival swimmers who can't stand each other... 𝐎𝐍𝐄 college trip to a deadly deserted island. When their constant bickering gets them left behind in the middle of a storm, they're forced to stay together on an island for 365 days. A year together of 𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐃, 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐓, and 𝐅𝐄𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 that were always there.. but was just hidden #1 swimmers #1 romancefanfiction - 🌊🦀🐬; - 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐀𝐋 - 𝐁𝐖𝐖𝐌 - 𝐄𝐍𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐒 -𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑E SCENES -𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐆𝐄

He closes in close enough that his lips grazed my ear as he spoke. "I think you do." he whispered, "I think you wonder how it feels." "Shut up," I breathed. He didn't. Instead, he crowded closer, his knee slotting between mine. "I think you wanna know how it feels" I shake my head. "To have lips kissing on your thighs," his finger grazes my knee. "To have a man lick and bite at your skin," his eyes fall to my trembling legs. "I think you want to know what it feels like to have every part of you screaming for them not to stop?" "I'm not-" I sucked in a shaky breath, my back pressing harder against the mirror. "I'm not doing this." My hands meet his bare chest. Stopping him. But he stays. "You want to though" 18+ MATURE CONTENT ⚠️

*PREVIEW(CH. 25)* "Amelia, you can't keep getting away with this." "Bitch, I didn't ring you for a lecture." I muttered, glancing at the stove clock. "Yes, the fuck you did!" Audrey shot back. "I've spent three days listening to you spiral! And the last time I cosigned your shit and said 'fuck that man' and 'get over him', you got under him and let him fuck YOU-" "So... city girls down?" I winced, biting my nail to keep the phantom heat of that memory at bay. "By a million, bitch, since you wanna be fucking funny while I'm irritated!" Audrey tsked. "Then you're staying at his godfather's house? I get he's a family friend, but what happened to 'fuck the police'?" "Trust me, it's not like that at all." I said, though my eyes drifted to the hallway. "He's barely here." "And what about your job?" Audrey's voice dropped the humor, getting to the part I'd been avoiding. "Elijah?" "What the hell do you think?!" ... "Real question-how good is that manic coochie for Broke Back to damn near signed his life away? Good thing I didn't try it out, I like my paper." "Drea!" I hissed, though I could feel my stomach getting knotted at the thought. "Leave my pussy out of this!" "Your 'hot-ass kitty-cat meow-meow' deciding who to purr it up to is the reason I'm in the mess too!" I could hear the hard clicking of her nails tapping against her phone on the other end. "I'm being serious! And you mean to tell me this same man then paid a prostitute? To cheat on you? The math ain't mathing. And you know I don't give a damn to take up for men." "I know what I saw! If you looked at the pictures-" "I'm not arguing what you saw," Audrey reiterated for the nth time. "I'm pointing out that even after you tied his ass to a bed and left him for dead, he still paid your bail and didn't press charges. Maybe he's covering his tracks, but god, I'm toxic enough that all of that would've made me stay married."

Aaliyah Johnson is in her final year at Magnolia State University, where she's balancing a scholarship, an art degree, and the pressure of not knowing what comes next. Elias Carter, the university's baseball captain, seems to have everything figured out, except his own heart. When mutual friends and a poetry club bring them together, sparks ignite in the most unexpected ways. She's brilliant and blunt; he's disciplined and mysterious. But between classes, practices, and the expectations of everyone around them, connection becomes the one thing they can't plan for. From strangers to friends to something far deeper, their story grows with every season, rooted beneath a magnolia tree that sees it all. Autumn brings sparks: "I'm curious about you, but I don't even know why yet." Winter, closeness: "You calm me when I didn't realise I needed calming." Spring, love: "I've known for a while... I just didn't want to ruin it." Summer, uncertainty: "Even if everything changes, you've changed me already." Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to the images used both on the cover and throughout the story.

Pierce Travis is used to getting whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Football, girls, grades, everything comes easy for him. But when he transfers high schools for his sport and is tossed into a traditional 'game' the seniors play each year, he may be in over his head. What happens when to win the game, he needs to sleep with the one girl in the school who doesn't bat at eye at him- Isabella Castra. She's quiet, reserved, and on track to be the valedictorian of Greenbrook High. With social skills stunted by her traumatic childhood, she's used to being alone with her school work. Until the new boy takes an interest in her, and she's thrown into the world of mean girls and popular guys she's never known even existed. 🔥 SLOW BURN 🔥

She was his forbidden obsession. And perfect revenge. Seventeen-year-old Emmaline "Emmy" Richards has always been her father's princess. The only daughter of wealthy, powerful Chase Richards and his longtime mistress turned wife, Mylene. Privileged, sheltered, adored, and completely off-limits. But as the only biracial debutante in 1990s North Carolina high society, Emmy feels like an outsider... until she meets Tristan Banks. He's everything her father hates: charming, mysterious, intoxicating... and the only one who truly sees her. But she doesn't care. She just wants him. What begins as seduction spirals into something darker and far more dangerous. Because Tristan isn't who he claims to be - and his secrets could shatter everything Emmy thought she knew about her family, her past... and their love.

He left a mark I never asked for. Now he wants to finish the piece. Amina Westbrook didn't choose motherhood. But when her younger sister dropped a baby and disappeared, Amina stepped up, raised that little girl as her own, and never looked back. Seven years later, the past comes tatted, cocky, and fine as hell-standing in the grocery store with the same hypnotic eyes her daughter sees in the mirror. Santiago Vega. Zuri's father. The man who left before he ever knew she existed. Now he wants in. He wants time. Forgiveness. A chance to be a father. And every time he shows up with that deep voice and soft smirk, Amina hates how badly she wants to let him. Santiago isn't just showing up for Zuri-he's showing up for her. Fixing things she didn't ask him to fix. Dropping money in her hand like it's his right. Touching her like he already knows how she breaks. Amina's been holding everything together for so long, she doesn't know how to let go. Doesn't know how to want someone who actually stays. But Santiago stays. Through the attitude. The boundaries. The sparks that keep catching fire. And when he finally gets his hands on her? There's nothing soft about it. Now she's spiraling in his sheets, clashing with him in front of her family, and falling harder than she ever meant to. Because Santiago doesn't just want to play daddy. He wants the whole damn family. And this time, he's not leaving until he has them. Ink Don't Lie is a gritty, emotionally charged, standalone romance about second chances, found family, and the kind of love that refuses to walk away.

The God Emperor's empire stands on the edge of ruin. The Empress is barren, and without an heir, the realm may fall. To save the throne, her servant Siora must secretly take her place in the Emperor's bed and conceive a child. If she fails, they all face death. If he discovers the truth, she will be executed. The fate of the empire now rests in her hands. Will the gods be on Siora's side and allow her to succeed? --- New updates every Tuesday

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He loosens his grip from my waist and I begin to slip under. My faces scrunches up in discomfort, and he grabs a hold of me. He pulls me closer to him, our faces inches apart. "So you can't swim." He says, grinning. "No. I can't." I say. My eyes wander down towards his chest. I just now notice that he isn't wearing a shirt. I refocus my eyes back to his face, my cheeks getting hot. "We live in California. How do you not know how to swim? There are beaches everywhere." ___________________________________________ It was the last summer before college. For Rae, this meant making memories with her best friends and vacationing till she forgot the last four miserable years of high school. After taking school too seriously and planning all the right steps for college, Rae takes advantage of the time off. For Grayson, this last summer meant deciding if he really wants to spend the next four years being a star-athlete swimmer in college to please his overbearing father, or pursue his true passion of wildlife and spend the next year traveling the world. He takes a vacation with his friends to get away from it all, hoping he will get lay back and relax. When a boat ride and a crazy storm leave the two stranded on a deserted island, everything takes a turn for the worst. Rae and Grayson must adapt to the island around them and depend on each other for survival. Rae and Grayson always knew of each other, being friends of each other's friends, but never about each other. With Rae's panic and paranoia and Grayson's laid back outlook they might seem like an unlikely pairing, but the blazing sun and time away from the outside world just may bring them closer together. Started: May 30th, 2019 Completed: June 18th, 2020