Dean blinked, not understanding. Not fully. "Sick how?" Rosie pressed a hand to her chest. Pain flared beneath her palm. Sharp now. Wrong. "I'm sick," she repeated. Dean stepped forward immediately. "Okay. I'll take you home. You'll feel better tomorrow." The gentleness in his voice broke her. "No, Dean." Her knees weakened. Beau caught her elbow. "Rosie." She looked at them both through tears. For weeks, she had imagined telling them. Not like this. Never like this. Not in a bar with music pounding and her heart misfiring in her chest. FINISHED TILL SEASON TWO Dean Di Laurentis x Oc x Beau Maxwell (Poly) "Jesus, all three of you need a cold shower." -Dexter

She had a broken family. Yet she was happy. She didn't have a whole, but she was grateful for the half she had. All Talia has ever known is her life with her mother. The four-year-old only understood that she didn't have a father, unlike her other friends. Then suddenly a tragic accident changes her life and she finds herself being shipped to New York to her older brothers and father. There was a reason they didn't know about her. A reason her mother died protecting. Will it all be for nought? Note: None of the images belong to me.

She was their little princess... Until she disappeared. At just two years old, Valentina Romano was kidnapped from her family, leaving behind twelve years of pain, grief, and endless searching. While the world moved on, the Romanos never did. Not her mother who cried herself to sleep. Not her father who searched for her in silence. Not her brothers who grew up with an emptiness no one could fill. And then... after twelve long years- they found her. But the little girl they lost was no longer the same. Scared of love. Unused to affection. Haunted by a painful childhood she never deserved. Now begins not a story of revenge... but a story of healing. A family learning how to love their broken princess again. Brothers becoming her safe place. Parents trying to give back the childhood she lost. And a girl slowly discovering what "home" truly means. Through tears, comfort, overprotective brothers, soft family moments, and unconditional love... Valentina finally begins to heal. But after living twelve years without a family... Will she be able to trust them completely? Can broken hearts truly heal with love alone? And will the Romanos finally get the happy ending they waited years for? Their Innocent Principessa - a heart-touching story of loss, healing, family, and the purest kind of love. 🖤

Four years ago, Valentina Coppola was erased from the life she used to know. Accused of pushing her twin sister down the stairs of their home, she was sent to a boarding school for ill mannered ladies in Stockholm. An academy shaped like a prison. Years after the fall, she is brought back to Italy so that amends can be made. Older. Sharper. And still helplessly hurt by what happened years ago, Valentina must learn to navigate life with the brothers that didn't believe her, a father who shipped her away, and a twin sister who hides behind a fabricated lie. This time, Valentina has secrets of her own.

Alessandra has never believed in safety. Life never gave her a reason to. Pain carved her childhood, silence became her armor, and trust? That was a luxury she could never afford. So when she runs -- bloody, broken, and barely breathing, she doesn't expect saving. She certainly doesn't expect to be taken in by a family dripping in wealth and power and. . . warmth? A mother who refuses to give up on her. A father who watches like he's waiting for her to let him in. And six brothers. Rough. Protective. Complicated. Brothers, who don't know what to do with a sister who won't speak. She doesn't know how to trust. How to believe that maybe not everyone wants to hurt her. Every instinct tells her to run. To shut down. But they don't let her go. Not when she flinches. Not when she hides. Not even when she breaks. Happiness is for other people, or that's what she believes. But when love comes wrapped in gentle patience and fierce protection, when hands reach for her without demand, when hearts break themselves wide open just to hold her... she starts to wonder. Can a girl stitched together with silence and fear ever belong in a family built on love? Can she stand tall when the ghosts of her past refuse to let go? And when danger claws its way back into her life, threatening everything she's come to know... will she find her voice, or will she shatter all over again? Trigger Warnings: Child abuse. Violence. Addiction. Panic attacks. Self-harm. Death, and more.

He was a duke feared by kingdoms, a man who could command armies with a glance and silence an entire court with a single word. But when his wife died, he became nothing more than a grieving man behind a locked door. And his daughter became the child he could not bear to look at. At three years old, she learned that grief could be colder than winter. At four, she learned how to stop crying where no one could hear her. At five, she learned that even if her father never opened the door, she would still wait outside it. Then one day, he finally did. What begins as a story of neglect becomes one of impossible devotion-of a father who learns too late how to love his daughter, and spends the rest of his life loving her enough to make up for the years he stole from her. He becomes absurdly overprotective. She becomes the center of his world. And together, they build a life filled with too much affection, too many arguments, and the kind of love that survives even grief. But love does not stop loss. Soon Elara's world, her daddy got ill, she was loosing him and was helpless against fate...... A tender fantasy about grief, healing, family, and second chances-woven with warmth, quiet humor, and the kind of love that finds its way back, even after death.

In the heart of Italy, power is everything-and danger never sleeps. Born into one of the most feared mafia families, baby Aurelia enters a world where loyalty is law and protection comes at a cost. Too young to understand the weight of her name, Aurelia only knows one thing: she wants to explore. To crawl. To reach. To discover the world just beyond her grasp. But being the daughter of a powerful mafia boss means freedom is a luxury she doesn't have. Watched constantly by her family, adored yet confined, Aurelia must navigate her earliest battles-not with enemies, but with boundaries. Meanwhile, her older brother Milan idolizes their father and dreams of stepping into a dangerous legacy, and their mother struggles to protect her children from a life she never truly chose. In a house full of secrets, love, and silent threats, Aurelia's smallest steps may one day shake everything.

Augusto is a cold man. He has been hurt by life and doesn't know how to let go of it. Instead, he buries himself in anger, pain, sadness and guilt. Even with all the money in the world, there is one thing he can't buy: peace. Flora and Luca only know pain since they are born. Their own mother beat them before they were sent away to an orphanage, where life is a living hell. They are only 4 years old, but they lived more than anyone should have. Melody always hoped for a better future, but now she only hopes to feel nothing. Separated from her brother and sister, who were the light in her life, she wishes to run away from herself. The only thing that keeps her alive is the hope that she finds her sibling one day. Come with me on this journey to find the story of 4 people far away from each other, but will soon become closer than ever. ------ [WARNING] Contains - bad language, abuse, and other violent behaviors ------

After losing the only person she ever had, seventeen-year-old Siara is left completely alone. With social services pressuring her into foster care, she has no choice but to contact the man her mother never told her about. Her father. A billionaire with a perfect life, a powerful name, and absolutely no clue that he has a daughter. Now forced into each other's lives, both must face buried truths, painful misunderstandings, and the possibility of becoming a family after seventeen years too late.