-'๑'- She's broken. Tired. Hurt. Aria Sky is an innocent 20 year old girl that works at the 'Un Beau Café'. She loves it there. Everyone see's that she's always happy and smiling, no worry's or bad things happening in her life. Or so you think that. Behind that mask she is a broken, insecure girl that gets abused by her horrible, possessive ex. She has to work to get money, just for him to take it for himself. She has to do everything around the house, and if she gets something wrong she gets punished. She just wants to escape the living hell she's in. Matteo Bianchi is a cold, ruthless, emotionless man. He has no time for relationships and caring for anyone. Love doesn't exist for him. He is the most powerful and dangerous person you can ever meet. He is the leader for the 'Black vipers'. The most well known gang in the world. Everyone's heard of him, and everyone is terrified of him. You might just want to avoid this man as much as you can. So what happens when Aria meets him for the first time but not on the way she expected? Will they ever find love for each other? Read on and find out!! <3 『••✎••』 This is all my (angelicbbyx) own ideas and my own story that I made up. Please don't steal anything from this story. Thank you.

At three and twenty, Lady Susanna Beresford is at dire risk of being considered an old maid, though she is determined that nothing but the deepest love will incline her to marry, a fact that deeply vexes her mother. As the season closes in 1810 and Susanna prepares to return home to Hertfordshire unattached, she meets the very man who will indeed change her life forever. A man whom high society would deem inappropriate and forbidden based on the very colour of his skin. But there is more to this man than meets the eye, and their meeting sets in motion a series of events that will undoubtably change society as they know it forever.

Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction? ****** Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]