"Are you a serial killer or something?" I laughed cautiously. "Serial? No." He smiled, leveling me with his eyes. A shiver ran down my spine. **** Elisabeth sealed her fate when she agreed to one last trip with her friends before stepping into what she called "real adulthood" - finishing university and getting a full-time job. But she couldn't have imagined that a quiet dinner in a fancy Italian restaurant would be the beginning of something new.. The danger. The desire. The downfall.

State of Affairs ⚖︎ "You missed a talking point on page four, Governor," I said, sliding the briefing file across his heavy mahogany desk. Tennyson didn't look at the file. His dark eyes stayed locked on my mouth, completely devoid of the golden-man charm he'd just fed to a crowd of thousands. "Lock the door, Milan," he murmured, his voice low and exhausted. "You have a press briefing in ten minutes, sir. And your wife is waiting in the lobby." He stepped around the desk, invading my space until the scent of cedar and expensive bourbon swallowed me whole. His hand brushed my waist, his thumb pressing possessively against my hip. "I don't care," he breathed, his facade finally shattering. "Lock the damn door." 🏛️ To the world, 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬 is untouchable. He is the state's golden man, a devoted husband, and a man with a spotless reputation. Everyone worships the ground he walks on. Everyone except his executive assistant, 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐊𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐚. Milan has a strict two-year plan: survive the Governor's temper, secure her recommendation letter, and catch a one-way flight to Washington, D.C. Her job description: hand him his black coffee, fix his crooked ties, and treat the most powerful man in the state like a normal human being. But her immunity is exactly what breaks him. Behind the heavy oak doors of his office, Tennyson sheds his perfect mask. He is cynical, ruthless, and spiraling into a dark, desperate obsession with the only woman who doesn't want anything from him. He becomes addicted to her warmth and slowly to her. As late nights at the office blur into a secret arrangement, Milan thinks she has the situation under control. But she doesn't know that Tennyson's public life is a PR lie. She doesn't know that the Governor has absolutely no intention of letting her go. 'Cause what the Governor needs, the Governor gets.

"Some love stories don't begin with confessions. Some begin with silence, missed chances, and two people pretending they never cared." ------------ She was supposed to marry someone else... but destiny made her his wife instead. 🤍 A soft-hearted girl. A dangerously calm man. And a marriage neither of them expected. Avantika Rathore & Avyukt Vardan #SlowBurn #ArrangedMarriage #WattpadRomance

From Wattpad to your book shelf! My Brother's Best Friend is now published as Playmaker. Available to Order now. Falling in love never scared Maddie Davis until she fell for the one boy she swore to stay away from forever. Season 1 of My Brother's Best Friend ********* Maddie Davis has been in love with her brother's best friend, Cameron Holden, since she was in the sixth grade. They used to be best friends, too, until he got into high school and became a version of himself she didn't even recognize. Everyone said he was a shoo-in for the NFL, and he let it get to his head. Right before high school started, he worked out until he was built like a sculpture, he got rid of his braces, and suddenly the girls fell at his feet. But that was fine because her middle school crush faded. And besides, even if she did think he was hot, Cameron wasn't someone she could go for even if she wanted to. Unless, of course, she found herself wound up with him in a closet during a game of blind seven minutes -- a closet so tiny and secretive that she would finally be able to act on the feelings she's tried so desperately to hide. But what were the odds of that happening? Content warning: This story contains mature sexual content and themes of bullying, sexual assault, violence, and explicit language. Cover designed by Ren Tachibana

Rated-R: {Read the Author's Note For More Information} Two gay villains. Not just wicked smokers and immature characters in a small urban world, no. ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ɪɴꜱɪᴅᴇ. Twisted geniuses, yes-but not mindless monsters like their original plot hoped... Stanley Stickman and Colonel Pop weren't chaotic for fun; they had purpose, strategy, and one deadly clue about who their enemies really were. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞? 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝑩𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒚-𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑵𝒆𝒘 𝒀𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒔, 𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒆: Sawyer, the bear with tan fur, Decan, a stuffed dinosaur, both dressed up as an agent spy... all guarding what this place truly hid under layers of comedy and forced healthy relationships. ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇɴ? ᴄʜᴀᴏꜱ ᴘᴀɪᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴠɪᴀʟꜱ. 𝑨 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒅, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒚 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔: 𝘼𝙩𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚. 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣. 𝙁𝙞𝙫𝙚-𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙩-𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙚