"Smoking is bad, you know." The placid voice speaks up from the distant dark corner, nothing to see but a tall silhouette and an orange glow of a cigarette cherry. "It's the least of my problems," I murmur with my own between my lips, proceeding to feel the stagnant debris valley my throat when I suck delicately. He exhales a chuckle of cynical amusement, his footsteps getting every step clearer to my eardrums until I eventually sense body heat burning my back. "And why is that?" He whispers over my shoulder, hands inviting themselves to grip the railing in front of me so I become a prisoner between his inked arms. I swallow. "Because you'll be the one to kill me first." // Aven Brooks is hired to take pictures for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite-dreamed university. However, when her lenses accidentally capture more than just cheeky sound checks and performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a band. Appalled and frightened, she's trapped. *HIGHEST RANKINGS* #1 IN HARRYSTYLES #1 IN ONEDIRECTION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO @happydays1d NOT ALLOWING TRANSLATIONS! CONTAINS VULGAR LANGUAGE / DRUG ABUSE / SEXUAL CONTENT / DESCRIPTIVE VIOLENCE / MENTAL HEALTH READ AT OWN RISK!

-𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐅𝐈𝐀 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐘- "𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮" "𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐛𝐞" "𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞?" "𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭" "𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐤𝐞...𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞" "𝐈 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞" ------- When 22-year-old Ellowyn Emmeret's life comes burning down....literally, she is forced between the decision to go back to France and beg forgiveness from her wealthy family or continue to live her life in New York broke. But just when she's about to give up and bruise her ego severely a job interview pops up in the newspaper and changes her life completely. Roman Vaughn, The 25-year-old Italian mafia leader would never admit he needed help, but this one time he does. After his wife and the mother of his children left him with Karah and Sage hell erupted. Roman has to encounter enemy mafias trying to kill the future heirs to the Italian Mafia throne, managing and taking care of those heirs, keeping them out of dangerous ways, and running a mafia. All those things have proven to be difficult at times especially with dirty diapers flying in different directions. So he lets go of his stubborn motives and gets a nanny. [18+] STARTED - 4/28/21 ENDED - 9/3/21 Cover made by- @DevilishWritings