He stops talking at the sight of me and looks me up and down, leaning against my door frame. "Damn ma you look sexy as hell." I look myself in the mirror, tracing my curves in the dress. "Thank you, Dion." "You still ain't tell me where you're going though." "I'm going on a date." I say picking up my bag and turning to him. His eyes turn dark and his expression changes immediately as he pushes himself of the frame. "You're going where?" "On a date." I repeat. "With who?" "With Devon." "Devon?!" His voice booms. "Okay, imma need you to lower ya tone." I tell him, scrunching my features at him. He gives a dry laugh and rubs his hands across his face. "Is this because I'm going over to Paige's place?" He walks closer to me. "Fine, then I won't go." ~ 25 year old Venice Carter gets into a strictly pleasure-only relationship with her colleague Dion Miller. Everything works out fine until something terrible happens to Venice's apartment, causing her to move in with him and feelings quickly start to get involved. Both doubt that the other reciprocates and the affection only continues to grow the more time they spend together. Will they admit their feelings for each other or will they continue to hide them and remain co-workers with benefits? Warning!⚠️: Contains explicit sex scenes and mature content. Read at your own discretion.

James King is a name that strike fear into many hearts. He's cold, unforgiving and uncompromising. Use to getting what he wants so what's happens when he meets a Bella Moore a beautiful young woman with heart of gold. Naive,sweet and innocent. P.S I do not own any images or gifs

ɪᴛs ᴏɴʟʏ ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ ɪғ ɪᴍ ᴛʀʏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ ʏᴏᴜ - ᴘᴏʟᴏ ɢ In New York City, 21 years old Diamond Hughes faces the ongoing challenges of being a single mom after getting pregnant and having falling out with her ex boyfriend her senior year in highschool. After a few years, Xavier James aka former UCLA college football star and baby daddy returns into her life wanting a second chance to make things right. Stuck between the past and present, Diamond built up her walls refusing to allow Xavier back into her life because of past hurt and trust issues she had been holding onto the past few years.

Dave is breaking away the chains that have been holding him back and stealing his youth. He is on the path of redemption. He meets people along his journey who will either help him prosper or bring him back to his troublesome roots. Read to find out how Dave maneuvers his way through the change of plans. Dave East

"Love is just a word until you find someone who gives it meaning." Mahalia Lawson is a twenty-two year old college sophomore with a big heart. She would give anything to fall in love. Too sweet and too giving, she decides to change that. After the breakup with her ex, her heart shatters. She vows to never let anyone that close to her again. Keyon Williams is the love of Mahalia's life who sadly, broke her heart. He doesn't know who he wants more. He wants badly to fix things with Mahalia but he knows he can't stop the streets from calling. His attitude will get the best of him and one drastic decision will change his life forever. Zaire Harris is a twenty-five year old hothead. He doesn't like to listen and often gets into trouble. His heart is set on good intentions but the words he says are venomous. He isn't attracted to Mahalia at first because she's "too big" because he's used to the usual slim girls. Then, he realizes that she might be his only shot at one true love. Will Zaire take advantage of Mahalia or is Mahalia torn between the two?

26 year old Alani Harris has just walked away from an eight year relationship with her high school sweetheart, Kendrick, after walking into his apartment to find him cheating on her. To make matters worse, he was in the middle of cheating on her with two females at the same time. Hurt, heartbroken and confused, Alani left the apartment and drove home to her townhouse where she spent the week cooped up in her room crying her heart out until that one night that changes her life forever... 33 year old Marcus Thomas is on the fence about whether he wants to throw in the towel on his seven year marriage after finding out that his wife has stepped out on him. It would be easy to walk away because although they both have kids from their previous relationship, they don't have any biologically together. Marcus has never stepped out on his wife, although the opportunity has presented itself multiple times seeing as how women are easily attracted to his chocolate complexion with his white teeth and full grown beard, until that one night...

**DISCONTINUED** kaycei finds out that she's pregnant by her supposedly "bestfriend" . what will happen between the two ? will it remain the same or will it change ? READ TO FIND OUT !! - - - - - - *sorry for mistakes this is my first story published , leave feedback just incase you think i should switch it up a little!!* 📢: ending is your choice . it'll be a happy ending and bad ending , uu can choose which one you'll read or uu can read both

Twenty-five year old Destiny Jameson lives alone with her six year old daughter Elizabeth after the man she thought loved her left after she broke the news to him that she was pregnant. Elizabeth hates seeing her mommy cry all the time and when Christmas comes along and so does new teacher twenty-three year old Jeremy Thomas, she writes in her Christmas wish list that she would like 'A Man For Mommy.'

"You don't know what it's like to be my size!" I yelled at Naomi. "Me? I wish I could be your size!" "No one wants to be me, no one dreams of being plus sized!" "You dont think it's hard being skinny? I WISH I could gain weight!" I sucked my teeth. Fetishing my weight is not real. Being overweight is dehumanizing. I disgust people. No one wishes to be big. Dreams aren't for real. Thin is in, always have been. Always will be. One more thing. Wildflowers don't exist.

𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧: 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥. 𝐋𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐖𝐲𝐚𝐭𝐭: 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 3 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐫𝐤