She hated them. They loved her with everything in them. The universe truly has a sick way of telling you it's there, doesn't it? From being kidnapped to being abused, that was all Arabella saw in life. It was all she ever knew. They tell you to keep fighting but sometimes you realize... you were just a child. Now she's built herself up using her pain as the next step to her strength. She's learnt how to strive forward even as her past haunts her mind crawling up her back every passing second. That is until the first 7 people who only ever brought her pain find their way back into her life. She has no way to let go of her past when they come right back to her. The world showed her no mercy in it's ways so why should she. ~~~ I let out a small sigh wanting more of this. I wanted to be held like this whenever I felt broken. Feel the way he puts me back together in his arms. It ate at my heart and I could have sworn I felt a feathery kiss on my head. It was as if he could hear my thoughts and was kissing them away for me. Slowly he lets one hand go, the other staying around me as he brings my chin up to him gently wiping my last tears as more fill my eyes. He sees this and his eyes look... crumbled. If you feel this way then why can't you choose me, Dominic. I shake my head from his hands wishing to step back but he pulls me back to him a pain filled groan leaving him. "Just one more minute. Please." His body shook and I brought him closer, feeling our pain become one. Our hurricanes of minds pull away even for the smallest time letting us stand together as one in each other's embrace. He was it for me. But I wasn't his.

It was only supposed to be a one night stand. Secrets I have held in my heart Are harder to hide than I thought Maybe I just wanna be yours ....... "Look baby, it's our song." VERY MATURE & CONTAINS A LOT OF SMUT.

(Book #1 - Blood Series) Riva Valentino, Famous Model. Luke D'Angelo, Most Dangerous Mafia Don. 2 different people. Matching Puzzle Pieces. Riva Valentino, is a famous supermodel whose struggling on the inside but always smiling for the cameras but what happens when she meets the cold Mafia Don who understands her more than anyone. Luke D'Angelo, is feared by everyone, he is known as a successful 'Business Man' but he's actually a Mafia Don, a very dangerous one. He's cold and closed off, the complete opposite of a guy who cares, but what happens when he meets Riva Valentino. It's definitely not love at first sight, more like hate at first sight. --------------------- "Please." I whispered "Please, what?" She asked. "Please, just pretend for 2 seconds you want me, as much as I want you." I said, while placing my head in the crook of her neck. After I spoke those few words, we stayed silent, holding each other for a few minutes. A few very long minutes, before she pulled my face out of the crook of her neck, and faced me towards her, so now I was staring into her beautiful eyes that I love so much. "I don't need to pretend, never have, never will." After those words left her lips, I smashed my mouth on to hers, and lifted her legs so they were now wrapped around my torso. --------------------- •Dual POV Ten·​e·​brif·​ic -Causing Gloom Or Darkness !DARK ROMANCE! !TW! NOT EDITED

Rydell is trying to get by. Suffering from panic attacks takes a tole on her life, but she's getting through it as best she can. She's a computer science major at Daxton U, and is about to be the co-creator of a video game to help kids with behavioral disabilities. She is busy, determined, and there's no time for distraction. Scott is loved by everyone, except maybe his parents. Captain of Daxton U's hockey team, and a shoe-in for the big leagues, he knows exactly what he wants, and he won't let anything get in the way of that. So when he fails Spanish and is facing the possibility of being a seat warmer for the season, he finds a solution- Rydell Rivens. trigger warnings: mentions of sexual abuse, and anxiety

Azalea ran away from home and left everyone behind. She disappeared with no reminders of the past and couldn't look back. Zade is the most feared man alive and will ruin anyone who goes against him. No one has escaped him before, but one. Azalea was taught everything she needed to survive in both worlds and so was Zade. The one thing they weren't taught was how to love.

dreamnotfound When George was eight, his best friend was Dream, they'd go on adventures together, climb up hills and laugh together. Dream liked to cause trouble, he was always getting George told off and he always just seemed to disappear whenever consequences began to set in for their actions. George's mother told him repeatedly that Dream was obviously imaginary, a ruse George had made up to get out of trouble. So when Dream stopped appearing, George eventually believed her. That was until he met Clay Edwards under a bus stop in the pouring rain after a nasty breakup.

Emerson Taylor, straight A student. Everyone knows her name. She has the popularity and the looks and the athletics and the best friend, and the sense of humor. She has lost her dad, and her sport, and she's not the most mentally stable, what more could a girl ask for? Ivor Hill, captain of the football team, okay enough grades, a reputation that can kill, a best friend, looks, and bruised knuckles, and both parents. He looks at you like he doesn't see you as an equal, as a person; but when it comes to Emmy, he can't help it. Can two people who seem to be destined for each other, work out? Or is it too perfect? Is it too meant to be? Should they have stayed friends, or even strangers? ♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎ Ivor looked at me and whispered, "I bet you 5 dollars they were together." "I bet 10." He nodded and the phone rang. Miss Scott groaned and stood up to walk over to the phone. "Well hello Mr. Jones!" She smiled. I looked at Ivor, "pay up." "You first." ♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎ "I used to not believe in love." I tell him matter-of-fact-ly. ♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎ Started: July 23rd, 2021 Finished: October 16th, 2021 ♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎♧︎

[BOOK 2] [ONGOING] ❝if you were to describe yourself in one word, what would it be?❞ five years ago she was a quiet, insecure girl. however, five years later she is confident, fierce, and had a multi-billionaire company under her name. they say time changes a person immensely which can be for the good or bad. to her this wasn't change. it was finding her true self and understanding her worth. she found happiness within herself. until one event. five years ago, he had it all. five years later, he is more broken apart from the circumstances that played out. he might of had fame, money, and a mafia business under his name but deep down he was broken. his happiness disappear five years ago that took his heart with her. without her, he's incomplete. he tries to talk to her and she puts him in his place immediately. ❝yours.❞

One of the most powerful man in the world. He was called Octavius. Cruel, coldblooded, and completely unobtainable. The Devil in a Brioni suit. The mere whisper of his name was like lethal poison that burned through the hearts of millions. Penetrating, and clear amber eyes that made grown men weep, and women burned with seduction. Behind the curtains, no one knew what he looked like yet he was always in control. It was a reputation he had fought to establish, one that brought him power, wealth and just about... everything. When a series of unfortunate events lands her into the very strong, powerful arms of Octavius, it was everything she'd been warned about. The beautiful brute, Octavius, moody and controlling in every aspect. She had never met a man as brutal, and stormy as him, someone she couldn't help but sprout wild, random phrases to, and offer hugs. A man that always gets what and who he wants because that's how his life works. Until it doesn't. Until he stumbles into a five-feet angel with the sweetest smile, and adamant about being friends. - preview - "Has any man ever made you so crazy you thought you'd die if you didn't get his cock inside of you? If you couldn't feel his fingers digging into your thighs as he spread you open and devoured you whole? Have you ever come over and over, so hard and so many times you couldn't be sure where one ended and the other began?" His strong, veined hands gripped the backside of my bare thigh, tracing over my skin, itching higher and higher and I could feel a deep ache building inside my lower region. My mouth slacked, at a loss for words, all I could do was whimper softly under his possessive touches. "Answer me." Big, forceful hands caressed my chin, almost gripping my neck, only retracting as I let out a tiny breathless sigh. His dark deep amber eyes were on fire with a carnal sexuality that I had never seen before. "Use your words."

After Nicole's father died she stopped feeling. She stopped having emotions. Eventually she began to bring the emotions back and felt again. She took over her families mafia and made friends. But that all changes in her 18th birthday when she finds out her father arranged a marriage for her. The man she marries is awful and to make matter worse, he is allied with the mafia that killed her father. Nicole falls back into her endless void of darkness and turns off all her emotions. She becomes feared. She gains power. And she is known to be heartless. When it all becomes to much, how is it that the least expected person pulls her out of that darkness? TW: SH, Depression, abuse, violence/torture, ED *** Book Cover done by @_navyblueee_