What happens when a Mob Boss meets the woman ordered to kill him?

"Stop overthinking," she whispered, holding my cheek as she stroked her thumb. "Please." "I can't," I admitted, scrunching my brows. "I'm sorry." "Don't apologise," she said gently, her eyes moving to my lips. "You're doing so good." Theo Ferreira- full time student and part time tattoo artist. He's quiet, reserved and has no other interests besides completing his degree. Theo is focused, but his focus shifts when he meets a woman who brings out a side to him he didn't know existed. Nina Cantero- full time student and the occasional babysitter. She's curious and utterly bored with her abundantly bleak life. Nina seeks a new thrill, and sometimes that means fresh ink on her skin. What happens when her newfound craving leads her to a particular tattoo artist?

It felt like heaven to fall in love with hell...

"What do you mean they're 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘦 ?" I ask, feeling like my world has been slowed to a stop. I feel like she's not even making sense. This doesn't make any sense. We just talked to them. "They're not gone. They said they were going home." The third installment in Ice.

~Book 3 of 'Love Unknown' series~ - ~𝒜 ℳ𝒶𝓇𝓇𝒾𝒶ℊℯ 𝒯𝒽𝒶𝓉 ℐ𝓈 𝒜𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃ℊ ℬ𝓊𝓉 𝒞ℴ𝓃𝓋ℯ𝓃𝒾ℯ𝓃𝓉~ ~ When you have everything you thought you ever wanted, can love still be on the table? ~ Mimi Aspen Smith is one of the best figure skaters in the world but a single life has earned her a reputation of being icy and aloof. ~ Vincent Calix Satori is the captain of America's greatest football team but his playboy image has put his future on the team in jeopardy. ~ When their lawyers come up with a solution that seems perfect for both of them, they agree to it. But what they don't know is that this arrangement will bring them more than they ever expected. Emotions, fights, and love. ~ Rules & Roses follows Mimi and Vincent on their journey of love and discovering themselves. Read now to join them Rankings: #2 celebrity - 10|11|23 #1 figureskater - 02|22|24 #4 convenience - 10|11|23

Book 4 of the 'Love Unkown' Series ---- "But 'Just Friends' don't look at each other like this." ---- When two unlikely friends, Margot Rose Jackson and Kenji Reid Mishra, find themselves growing closer, they must decide whether to stick with the comfortable status quo or take a risk and reveal the true nature of their feelings, they must confront the feelings that they've been hiding from each other. Margot is an ambitious and determined woman, determined to make her mark in the world, but continues to search for love, never looking in the right places. Kenji, on the other hand, has secretly nurtured a love for Margot greater than just friendship, but has been friend zoned. As their dance career together progresses, so do their feelings, and when Margot's life takes a drastic turn, Kenji is determined to help her out of the darkness. But as they discover more about each other, they must decide if to keep their feelings hidden or to risk it all and admit their true emotions. Together, they must confront their fears and make a choice that could change their lives forever. ---- "Think I like you best when you're just with me and no one else." Cigarettes After Sex ---- Ratings: 1- #highschoolfriends | 10.23.23 1- #spicyromance | 5.10.24

Book 2 of the 'Love Unknown' series ____________________________ I look down at him, his eyes begging for the pleasure I had been denying him. In the corner of my eye, I notice his camera still sitting on the table. I smirk and walk over to it, pushing the record button. He looks at me with confusion laced all throughout his features, as I walk back to him his eyes follow me, study me. I run my index finger along his bottom lip as the very unholy things in my mind, break free. "Want to make a movie?" ☯︎☯︎☯︎ Fragile. That's one of the hundreds of thousands of words to describe Hazel Cora Grey. A girl who doesn't know who she is. The one thing that took her mind off of her Eating Disorder had shriveled into nothing and now? She tries her hardest to act like she's fine, like she isn't hurting inside because if anyone knew, questions would be asked. Questions she didn't want to answer. Some would say she's the type of girl to look into a blazing fire, and smile. Fragile. Not like a small, futile flower, but like a ticking bomb waiting for her time to leave her mark. Innocence. A boy who's been trained to think only about his future and career. Taught to never live in the moment for if he got too caught up with it, everything he's ever done and worked for, would have been for nothing. Micah Eugene Bennet had spent his entire life trying to live up to his father's expectations to no avail and well, one person can only take so much pressure and stress before they eventually give up. Or in this case, give in. Innocent. From his rounded glasses, to his hundreds of textbooks, to his untainted mind, the boy was innocent from the inside out. A romance in which two childhood lovers, separated early, find each other once again but this time, things have changed. ☯︎☯︎☯︎ Ratings: #1 showerthoughts - 8|12|2023 #1 secretdating -8|23|2023 #3 youngromance - 9|24|23 #4 teacherspet - 10|05|23 #2 university - 10|09|23 #1 college - 10

*unedited* <The original name was Under My Skin but I hated it so there's the new and improved name for the series> Book 1 of the 'Love Unknown' series When life has a turn, but will the turn be good or bad? ____________________ "You don't even like me, or anyone for that matter." i said not believing the person who hated me most could have even a drop of feelings for me. "Why is it so hard for you to believe your my everything." And that's when everything stopped. ____________________ Journey Grey and Mateo Smith were two people who couldn't be more different. Journey had been given everything she could ever want as a child, but still felt an emptiness inside. Mateo blamed himself for his father's death and the subsequent suffering of his mother and had been struggling ever since. But when a chance encounter in class brings them together, their enemies to enemies-with-benefits story takes an unexpected turn when their friends plan a group camping trip to the Grand Canyon, will Journey and Mateo be able to set aside their differences and find something they didn't know was there? Follow them on a journey of self-discovery and exploration to see where their paths will lead. Love Unknown Book 2 : Primed For Sin Love Unknown Book 3: Rules & Roses Love Unknown Book 4: Desire _____________________ Ratings: #8 enemiestolovers - 8|12|2023

Luca Chessman has been longing for love his entire life. The only problem is-he can't seem to find a guy that likes him the same way. With his family cafe, Chessman's, struggling to keep afloat and no help from the bank, he's slowly accepting the demise of their business which he holds so dearly to his heart. Declan Nash is a regular at Chessman's who wears an expensive suit everyday and sits at the back on his laptop mysteriously-whilst being stupidly good looking. It's safe to say he's caught Luca's eye but with no confidence to speak to him, all Luca can do is smile, take his order and admire from afar. After a robbery at the cafe, leaving Luca with minor wounds and an empty till, Declan soon realises the future of the cafe. He decides to step in and help them get their business back on its feet with a cash loan from himself. But as they grow closer, Luca calls Declan his miracle but does he know his true intentions? - This book is the second book in the Silver Linings Series. You can read this as a stand-alone or read Signs From The Universe before to meet these characters. Tropes: - age-gap (10 years) - bxb - millionaire/wealthy man - forced proximity - found family - spicy scenes

"𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐧 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮." Lonzo Mattia doesn't like strangers. When his underboss, Gabriel, invites his sister, Alexia, to stay at their house when her parents can no longer guarantee her safety, Lonzo is anything but pleased. The last thing he needs is something else to worry about, he only wants to build his empire without distractions. Alexia Dalton knows what she wants in life. After being brought up by vigilantes, Alexia wants to make a different path from the one that is set out for her. But when she moves into the mafia boss's house, nothing is simple when there are two mutual feelings between them. Hate and a lot of uncontrollable lust. Neither of them want to admit that they love the taste of it. ✧ ✧ ✧ Tropes: - Mafia Romance - Brother's boss/best friend - Forbidden Love - Strong FMC/Grumpy MMC - He falls first and harder - Dark themes - Spicy scenes