Alejandra Martinez had a perfect life until she lost her mom and childhood to a violent tragedy that she witnessed. As a result, her dad fell into many patterns of abuse, leaving her to deal with the aftermath of it all. She continued life as best as she could with little hope for anything and trust in absolutely nothing, turning into someone her mother wouldn't recognize, doing whatever she needs to do to cope as well as to protect herself. During her junior year at Lower East Side High School, she meets Gabriel Santiago. He's known throughout the halls for his association with the most dangerous gang in the city, as well as his ice cold demeanor, all at the age of 17. He's as heartless as it gets - at least that's what everyone thinks. The two know nothing about each other. Despite that, they can't seem to hate each other more. But as time goes on, and they continue to cross paths, something changes. They begin to realize that there's a whole different side of the other that nobody knows about, yet it's the side that they might not hate about one another. That's what makes it even more complicated. As they each dig deeper past the facade the other has created over years of tragedy and destruction, it becomes dangerous for everyone involved. 𝓡𝓐𝓝𝓚𝓘𝓝𝓖𝓢 - 2023 # 1 : 𝔲𝔤𝔩𝔶 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 # 2 : 𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔫 # 1 : 𝔣𝔞𝔠𝔞𝔡𝔢

Valora Anton is a trained, lethal assassin, and she's running for her life. No one-no one-had ever come close to catching her. But when the net finally closes, she's transferred to an island prison house in the Atlantic, a place known for its brutality. She's certain this is where her journey ends-until she realizes she's wrong. Phoenix Knight is the iron-fisted warden of Atlanta Prisonhouse, feared by every woman under his control. Ruthless, unforgiving, and unbending, he rules with an absolute hand, tormenting misbehaved prisoners without a second thought. His pleasure comes from their suffering, from breaking them, bending them to his will. But when Valora enters his domain, everything shifts. There's something about her-something sharp, dangerous, poisonous-that draws him in. On one hand, he's repulsed by her icy demeanor, her unyielding nature. On the other, he's irresistibly allured by her presence, by the fire that simmers beneath her calm exterior. For the first time in years, Phoenix is out of control. And he hates it. Valora is no ordinary prisoner, and Phoenix is no typical captor. Their dynamic is a volatile cocktail of aggression, manipulation, and raw tension. Each encounter between them ignites a new spark, a dangerous push-pull of venomous desire that neither of them can resist. They are two forces of destruction, locked in a dance that threatens to undo everything they've ever believed in. The real question is: How far will they go to destroy each other? And in the end, who will be left standing, and at what cost? [Second Book of the V-Series] A Standalone Novel Complete.

"I want to defile you, destroy you, corrupt you in the most sinfully beautiful way. Break you until you're completely mine." "And then?" "Then I'll piece you back together, of course." He took another step in her direction, closing the distance between them. "Love can be holy." He said but the look in his eyes promised anything but. "It can be kind and gentle. It can be the flutter inside your chest when you feel someone touch you, the blush staining your cheeks when someone brushes his knuckles over them." To prove his point further, he took his knuckles and brushed them over her sharp jawline, all the way to her lightly dusted cheeks and sharp cheekbones. "However, love can also be vile. Dark and all-consuming. The kind of love that makes you want to fall to your knees and let it destroy you." He let his palm rest on her soft skin and felt the warmth she provided so carelessly travel to him. "That's all I can offer you." Nathaniel Russ is a man devoid of passion. Cold, stern, a tragedy with skin. A wreckage just seconds before the crash. A writer. He spends countless hours teaching philosophy at the local university, waiting for something to make the words crawl out of him with the same vigorous appetite they once did. And he finds it, at the most unexpected moment. Guinevere Westbrook is a woman haunted by the sins of her past. And she just happens to be the muse he had been waiting for, even though she refuses to accept it. So, he orchestrates a game meant for two. A game. That's all it was. Until it wasn't. Adult themes, proceed with caution. All images belong to their respective owners. Source: Pinterest.

𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕? 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝟏 (𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐄) ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ Jade Grogan, the youngest millionaire in the city among his other two brothers, is nothing but trouble in paradise. With the looks that could kill and have any girl he wanted; he is an arrogant jerk with a past so painful that it still aches inside of him. The charm he holds is inevitable for anyone. His arrogance and ego are nothing but a facade that he shows to the world, just to keep the walls he has built around him. But when it comes to a certain dark-haired therapist, he can't resist breaking those walls by himself. Aurora Monroe, a successful and famous therapist residing in Canada, is beautiful, elegant, and has a shine to her personality. She meets so many people in her daily life who need to be listened to and healed, maintaining her strict professionalism. No one knows about her own demons, which haunt her every day. But when it comes to a certain new patient, she is drawn towards him, no matter how much she denies it. They meet out of pure professional necessity. But little did they know that their fates were connected. ⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ → 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 → 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐱𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 → 𝐎𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐌𝐂 → 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐱𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐲 → 𝐃𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐎𝐕 #1 in badboyxgoodgirl #3 in forbidden #7 in angst

[Enemies to lovers] [Forbidden romance] "W-wh-what are you doing", she stammers, eyeing me up and down when I approach her and I notice how her breathing started to get heavy. "I won't hurt you." "I know!", she exclaims, pouting. "But, tell me why are you so...", she sucks a breath, "close? Do you want to hug me?" I don't. I want to kiss you. "You know I hate hugs", she lies, shaking her head. I scoff, shaking my head, too, while tugging her hair behind her ear, and her gaze falls on my big palm placed on her little ear. "I know you do like them. You liked the last one." "Hmm", she hums. "I can say it wasn't that bad. But, I'm still not a fan of them." "This time, I....", I trail off, my eyes falling on her lips that she keeps pouting. "This time I want to do something else. Something more..." "More...?" She presses. "More intimate," I admit, afraid of her reaction. "Y-you wanna kiss me?" "Yeah, I do, Esther. I'm dying to kiss you", I admit. ☆☆☆ He was a helper, but she didn't want to be helped. He was doing to help, to fix, but all she did was break, ruin and destroy. Sebastian Tomlinson is a 26-year-old therapist that specialized in psychiatry before others and became the most successful doctor in the country. Though, instead of being a private therapist and earning more money, he chose to work in the basic hospital where anyone can reach for his help. But he has demons on his own that no one knows about, so can he help himself as much he can help others? Esther Larsson is a 20-year-old woman who has both trust and anger issues since she was a child. She hates people, and everything around her, but she's okay with it. Until one day her path crosses with Sebastian who wants nothing more than to help her overcome the fears he is sure she has. Will she let him help her and will that turn into something more? Updates once in a week. WARNINGS: contains strong language, smut, depression

⚠️ 𝘿𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙟𝙤𝙮 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨.⚠️ I'm not a writer, but enjoy doing it as a hobby. I wrote this book without any idea what the hell I was doing. ⤷ When Lyle Carver returns to his hometown for the summer, lies and deception seem to follow. ⤶ Beautiful cover is made by Eileenkruz <3 here on Wattpad! This book is based off a POV on my tiktok lmao.

𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐞. . . J A K E Two words. That's all it took for me to experience my first heartbreak. I brought her lilies everyday, even went to the extent of playing songs on my damn cello for her but it still didn't align with her standards. She was royalty and royalty deserves only the best. That was six years ago and I buried everything to do with Julia Price in the ground. Literally. I dug a hole behind our house and dumped in the contents that reminded me of her. I was done with her. At least I thought I was. Life sure has a way of dicking you over. Now, little Miss Julia Price has decided to join the merry fucking band of the Carlisle family and she's making it clear that she wants to play with fire. The twisted thing is. . . I'm up for it even if it means I'll most likely get burnt again. [this is the first draft. i'll edit it once its completed] ***ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢ: ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀɪɴs ᴇxᴘʟɪᴄɪᴛ sᴇxᴜᴀʟ sɪᴛᴜᴀᴛɪᴏɴs, ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ, ᴅɪsᴛᴜʀʙɪɴɢʟʏ sᴇɴsɪᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴀʙᴏᴏ sᴜʙᴊᴇᴄᴛs, ᴏғғᴇɴsɪᴠᴇ ʟᴀɴɢᴜᴀɢᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴍᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴛᴏᴘɪᴄs. ʀᴇᴄᴏᴍᴍᴇɴᴅᴇᴅ ғᴏʀ ᴀɢᴇ 18 ʏᴇᴀʀs ᴀɴᴅ ᴜᴘ***

I watched as he slowly made his way up to me. Every step he took towards me, I stepped back until my back hit the wall. "If you know what I'm capable of, I advise you to lower your voice and lose that attitude." He said as he was still walking his way up to me. To be honest, I was really terrified but yet, I was also turned on by the way he was looking at me. Damn him for making me feel this way. "And if I don't?" I asked him, really wanting to know what he had in that evil little mind of his. My breath hitched as I felt him press his body against mine, he placed his hands on both sides of my face. I looked dead into his beautiful silver eyes. I could feel his body heat and that was only making me even more hotter. I watched as he leaned towards my ear where I felt hit minty breath hit my skin which only made the hair on my neck stand straight up. "I lay you across my knees and spank you until that plump ass of yours is red." Nineteen year old Reginy Garcia thought that her life was just as another normal day of any teenage girl, but all that change when she was walking home from a club. Kidnapped and taken away from her aunt and uncle. She steps into the world of mafias. And that's where she meets him. Dante King. The King of all mafias. Tension and hatred begins between the two of them begins to form, but soon Reginy finds out that she is going to need Dante's help to find out the truth about her parent's death and secrets will be revealed to who she really is. And Dante knows that he is the only one who can help and protect her. Will their hatred separate them and make them hate each other forever? Or will this bring them close together and let them see that the hatred they share is only a cover to hide away their true feeling for each other?

❝I've already made up my mind, I want you and only you. No one else... because to me, you're my kind of perfect,❞ In the ruthless world of wealth and power, Adrian Ivanov reigns as a cold-hearted man, devoid of remorse. Love holds no meaning for him, as he indulges in a life of opulence and privilege, yet remains hollow. However, his carefully constructed existence is about to be shattered when an unexpected encounter brings Valentina Russo into his life. Valentina, an Italian girl struggling to make ends meet, crosses paths with Adrian at his exclusive club. Little does she know, this chance meeting will unravel the fabric of her entire existence. Will Valentina possess the strength to weather the storm that threatens to consume her? As their lives intertwine, a profound question lingers: Can Valentina be the one to thaw the ice in Adrian's heart and fill the void that has haunted him for so long? Witness a tale of passion, transformation, and the tumultuous journey two souls must undertake in search of redemption and unyielding love. https://www.patreon.com/c/arihartwattpad

Liam Raffaello had plans on taking the Mafia world by storm. He had everything in place ready for his take over. There was only one thing he didn't plan for, and that was a fiery redhead with a sharp tongue and a history he never expected. Can he have it all, or will he lose the one thing he didn't know he needed?