IN WHICH old paths of to childhood friends reconnect causing old flames to rekindle but both unaware of what baggage and soon drama comes

"SHE WAS HIS WEAKNESS... HE WAS HER ESCAPE..." 𝐈𝐍 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐇 Leighton, the beautiful lonely girl, wrapped in luxury, and Dayvon, who's well known on the south side of Chicago, cross a forbidden line where desire defies loyalty, secrets that need to stay silence, and a love never meant to exist becomes impossible to hide. But somewhere between her diamonds and his demons, something sacred sparked. He touched parts of her heart money could never fill.

❝YOUR PARAGRAPHS MEAN SHIT TO ME, IT'S VERBATIM WHAT YOU SAID LAST WEEK...❞ - 𝙾𝙽𝙴 𝚂𝙷𝙾𝚃 𝙲𝙾𝙻𝙻𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 !

Brielle loves her boyfriend. She loves Elijah in the way you love someone you've already chosen - deeply, patiently, and with the expectation that love will eventually meet you where you are. For a long time, she believes it will. When it doesn't, she tells herself she's asking for too much, that love isn't supposed to feel loud all the time. Still, something is missing. Elijah cares for her, but not in the ways she needs. He assumes the relationship is fine, while Brielle slowly learns how to carry her disappointment quietly. She stays. She adjusts. She keeps loving him anyway. When the weight becomes too heavy, Brielle does not go looking for escape. She goes looking for understanding. She finds it in Psalms-Elijah's closest friend. Psalms pays attention in ways Elijah doesn't think to. He notices when Brielle goes quiet. He asks questions and waits for the answer. Being around him feels easier, and Brielle doesn't realize how much she's been holding in until she doesn't have to. By the time Brielle realizes how deeps she gotten it was already too late. She finds herself caught between the man who she loves and the man with a few missing screws that makes her feel loved.

LETHAL /ˈlēTHəl/ adjective sufficient to cause death, harmful or destructive. "Damaged people are dangerous, they know they can survive." COVER BY: XOROYALTYWRITES

"I don't know this man, I don't know his friends, I don't know his type." No amount of love could replace the past. And they had a lot of that for one another-love that is. The two child hood friends had bonded early on, especially over their love of music. Where one lacked, one had. Mariah was the writer, Kentrell the performer. It's only until a high school talent show that Kentrell performs a song written by his beloved best friend, Mariah...that his career takes off. But it happens to take off without Mariah. And he had promised to take her. Promises were meant to be broken I suppose.

"...𝐢 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐢 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬." 𝙖 𝐧𝐛𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮.

"Opposites attract, often because they mirror each other in secret ways." Nayeli Travers has never had control. Forced to give away her mind and her body after being taken to New Mexico for child trafficking, she has never been able to live for herself. Raised by the system until the age of twelve every choice, action, and thought was never her own. That is until she reclaims her freedom at a deadly cost. With a new idenity, she now lives under high viligance, completely anxiety-ridden over the mere thought of ever being captured again. Her form of coping is drowning herself distractions and work. A mask to cover a false sense of something she still has yet to claim. Control. Everything shifts when her roomate convinces her to work alongside with her as a maid at The Donatello Manor. That's where she meets the notorious Taige Donatello. Brought up by his easy going grandparents and distant business parents that just threw money at him whenever he needed them, freedom was all he ever knew. Taige lived a life of street racing, reckless decisions, and non-stop partying, but beneath the flash and facade, Taige was fighting an internal battle with himself. Years of criticism from his pessimistic father left him constantly trying to prove himself, and earn his father's validation until he couldn't anymore. With no guidance or stability, he didn't know who he was. So he chased anything that made him feel alive to avoid the emptiness he couldn't face. As their worlds intertwine, Taige's fascination with Nayeli deepens. To him, her silence speaks in ways words never could but for her, it's both shield and scar. She aches to trust again, yet the echoes of her past hold her back. Still, his persistence softens her guarded edges and in him, she sees a familiar emptiness that doesn't seek to be fixed, but simply understood. Two restless souls, bound by the illusion of control find in each other the space to heal, to learn, and to gradually become whole together.