Paige Monroe is your typical girl, she loves luxury and the finer things in life. Travis Prescott, on the other hand, is her polar opposite-a rugged country man who values simplicity and hard work. When their worlds collide, sparks fly in more ways than one.

"Love for people like me, comes at a cost" in which a girls life is changed forever by a split-second decision to save a man's life. rated: MATURE | R | 18+ slow-burn BOOK ONE C O M P L E T E D

*COMPLETED AND EDITED* "I stand straight up and turn around and he's so close I can feel the heat from his body warming mine. I look up at him and say "you scared me a little" softly. I feel Andreas place his hands on my hips and we're so close it's actually making my heart beat so fast. "Andre-" I start to say. "Shhh schätzchen" he says softly in his thick accent. I stand completely stuck looking up at him. I couldn't stop thinking about how good he looked and how close we were. "I really want to kiss you" I hear him say as he stares down at my lips. " Naomi Johnson, Nomi for short, is a young college girl interested in becoming an Interior Designer for a big firm in the city. Everything in her life is going smoothly until her boyfriend of six months asks her to meet his parents. After the initial butterflies of meeting his parents subside, Naomi is faced with another problem. It seems as if her boyfriend's father, a well to do artist in the city, has an interest in her, and not one of conventional means. Worst of all, she finds herself attracted to him as well, and let's just say it's not due to him being an artist. Will Naomi be able to resist temptation? Or will she give in to the strong, mysterious man? Even though he is most certainly forbidden.

What would you do if you witnessed your crush murder someone? Sara has been in love with Vincenzo since she first met him, his casual disregard for everything around him was irresistible. On a mission to finally confess her feelings to him, she stumbled across an imaginable crime that he committed. - "I like you.. I like you a lot" I said shaking in fear as I stared into the gun burrow. The man chuckled darkly, for the first time since I met him. "Even now when you're inches from death." He asked. "E-Even now." I said, my lungs filling up with burning air as the gun is moved and pressed into my temple. "Then you're more of a psycho than I am."

"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐈'𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝? 𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡? 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐥" • A student on scholarship and a shy university professor. An almost very unlikely pair. • "You don't understand how important she is to me" I clenched my jaw, feeling the urge to throw something. "She's everything to me and I just...I just ruined it!" My voice ripped through my throat as I flung the glass of whiskey at the wall and I watched it shatter while the golden liquid stained the neat white walls. "She's gonna be fine, Theodore" Asher said with a somber and empathetic expression on his face and I scoffed. "Fuck yes, she's gonna be fine! But what about me?" I tilted my head at him and he inhaled. "You'll be fine, Theo." he spoke so softly I wished I was that calm. I wished I could be. "Not without her I'm not" I dropped back in my chair, my hands shaking violently and she wasn't around to help me get through it. PS: Lyrics of a song by Nasty C- Flaws and All. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 - 22𝐫𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐜, 2020 Completed - 17th Oct, 2021