{NEEDS EDITING} ....::::**•°✾°•**::::.... 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏 𝐨𝐟 ❝𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬❞ ....::::**•°✾°•**::::.... "Death is the easy way out, remember?" 𝐎𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭. A pretty face hiding a thousand secrets. A mind broken in ways only she knows. The world sees her as a closed book, but only a few have glimpsed the cracks behind her innocent smile. Her past is a shadow that haunts her every move. An unsettling loss, a family fractured beyond repair. People disgust her, but there's one who stands out: a charming, dangerous man who might just be the one to pull her in. 𝐗𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐨. Dark, enigmatic, and drawn to chaos. He doesn't play by the rules, but when he meets her, the rules no longer seem to matter. A man with a dark past and an even darker secret, Xavier has always gotten everything he wanted. Until he crosses paths with the one woman he can't ignore. She's everything he never knew he needed and everything he shouldn't want. As their worlds collide, the lines between love and betrayal blur. Xavier has a past he's kept hidden, and Olive is about to learn the hard way that nothing is ever as it seems. Trust is a fragile thing, and once it's broken, there's no way to put it back together. What happens when two broken souls realize they're not so different after all? And when betrayal cuts deeper than anything either of them could have prepared for? ....::::**•°✾°•**::::.... #1 in newstorys - 12/16/22 #1 in rivalry - 12/18/22 #1 in poledancing - 12/31/22 #1 in groups - 12/31/22 #1 in drama - 12/31/22

18+ mature content read at your own risk. "His eyes and his smile" "Her eyes and her smile" Fawn Emeric was supposed to get gardening tools from the shed, but was instead threatened by the world's most powerful and feared, injured mafia boss. In spite of that, she manages to treat his wound and he lets her live. Then a year later, while on vacation, she witnessed him commit murder, and she reported it. Lorenzo should have disposed of her, but he let her live for some strange reason. What was the strange reason behind this? Is Lorenzo capable of love? Is Fawn likely to fall in love? To find out more, read on.

He is darkness, the kind where you dont want to associate with. His hard exterior and coldness makes you want to stay many feet away from him. He likes the fear he sees in people's eyes. It's his satisfaction. She doesn't fear him at all. His cold look and harsh scowls dont bother her at all instead she wants to draw closer to him. He is intrigued by this. He wants her to fear him but he also doesn't want her to fear him. He finds himself drowning and she finds herself getting lost in him. $Warning; Contains mature scenes and language.$ Started; 29/12/2020. Completed;?? ||Highest ranking #20 in Romance.||