In a moment everything can change. One fleeting moment can have a life time effect. How could I be so stupid? I ask myself that everyday. How could I be so incredibly stupid? One night. One night to be free to not always follow my family's rules. One fleeting moment is what it took to change everything. He was the enemy. I knew that. He wore rival colors. I knew that too. He was a cold blooded killer. I saw that first hand. He had no soul. He told me that. One night with him. One night to forget everything. One night with him changed everything. So again how could I be so stupid? Because of that one night, I know have more then just myself to think about. I know had a secret I had to hide from everyone. No one could know. Not my family Not even he could know. Should be easy right? Him being in a rival club and all. I'd never see him again. Oh boy was I wrong. A moment can change everything for a life time.

He was poison. The kind that seeped into your veins and pumped with your blood. The moment he breathed the same air as you, you were infected. The kind that killed you slowly until the moment it decided it was your time and then it happened all at once. Every time, every time you could hand me the antidote and I would refuse it. Cause I secretly thrived to have his poison rushing through my body. If I was infected it meant he was close, meant he was there. How long could I survive this? How long would it take for him to kill me? After all, the moment we locked eyes I had one foot in the grave.

At eighteen, Jade Sampson thought she had found the one man she would spend the rest of her life with, Austin Giles. He had been a long time childhood friend and later became her high school sweetheart. He was perfect in every way... or that's what she once thought. It was your typical hot southern, summer afternoon when she made the dreadful mistake of walking in on him with another woman in a rather compromising position. In a matter of minutes, her easy-going, perfect world came crashing down like a ton of bricks. Utterly heart broken and destroyed, Jade made the decision to leave her small home town and make her own way. It wasn't until five years later she received a call that would turn her new life upside down again. Her father, the same father that turned his back on her all those years ago had passed away. Now that she is forced to go back home and settle his affairs, how will she handle seeing Austin once again? Can she protect her heart any better this go round or will she relive the same mistakes and lose it all again.

"You want me to be a genius or do you want me to fuck you?" • • • The Alexandrettia is the finest school in the state, known for producing the smartest, and most talented kids in America. 21 year old keen painter Mia Hanson managed to get a spot. She worked her whole life to get inside, to see the hallowed halls her biggest idols once walked through. But those very same halls gets vandalized one wild night, and the person responsible gets sentenced to do community service, working as a janitor to clean up his mess. With his brooding eyes, filthy mouth and body covered up in ink, Eli the type of guy you run away from; The type who only lives for the trouble; The type you just know packs a brain the size of a peanut. But when one of Fermat's biggest unsolved mathematical problems gets solved by an unknown source, rumors start as to who and where this genius might be... Well: Three guesses who?

"So what do we do?" "We can work something out. There's just one problem... We can't let your brother find out." ❁ Available now to order! Link in bio!

|| Featured FREE story with exclusive paid chapters - previously a paid story || When Haley discovers the truth behind Xavier, whose silence holds a deeper meaning, she sets her mind on making his life better one small step at a time. ***** Haley Rosamond is happy with her simple life, content under the wing of her father. Well-protected, she has no idea of the darkness surrounding Xavier Hunt, with his all-black attire and infrequent presence in school-accompanied by his bruises and scars. That is, until Haley catches a glimpse of Xavier's reality and is made to question everything she knows about family and life in general. The truth, she realizes, couldn't be more different from everything she has heard. Supported by her father, Haley sets her mind on helping Xavier any way she can, and what begins with tutoring sessions, free food, and random acts of kindness blooms into friendship and something a little more. But when Haley's admission into her dream college and another tragedy in Xavier's life threaten to undo everything she has worked for, Haley needs to decide if she'll stick by Xavier or simply be another person in his life that disappears. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]] Cover designed by Holly Thurston

It's been 5 years since 18 year old Aubrey D'Amore has been Home. She comes home to the family that she left years ago. She also comes back to the man that she thought forgot about her. What happens when Aubrey lets her feelings get to her before she thinks? How will life turn for her? -------------------------- "Kil-" before I could say anything his lips were on mine. I tried to push him away but he wouldn't let go. Soon I found myself letting him do this. My hands found there way to his hair and I pulled him to me. "I want you to come with me tonight. We can go away together" he said pulling back. I pushed him back and walked away. "No Killian I told you. This can't happen. I need you to understand that." He grabbed me and pulled me to him. "You want me to stop this?" He said as his lips came to mine. I moaned when I felt his tongue find mine. "And this?" He said as he kissed down my neck. I moved back with him till my legs hit the bed making me fall to it.