For nineteen years, Annabella, known by everyone as Bella, grew up with two men she could always rely on: her father, Henry, and Zaack, his father's best friend... Ever since her mother passed away from cancer when Bella was only five years old, Zaack had always been there. Protective, reassuring, almost like a second father. Then, overnight, he left. Two years. A military mission classified as top secret. No calls. No explanations. During his absence, Bella went through the hardest moments of her life, and the person she needed the most was no longer there. Today, Zaack is finally back. But their reunion is nothing like what they had imagined. Between anger, wounds, guilt, and secrets, the years have changed everything... especially them.

Frank Castle was always just her dad's best friend. But when Valerie witnesses something she should have never seen. She suddenly now knows him better than anyone. ☠︎︎ ☠︎︎ ☠︎︎

Moving into Jon Bernthal's apartment was supposed to make my life easier. He had an empty room. I needed somewhere to live. And after five years of knowing him as one of my father's closest friends, sharing a roof with him hardly seemed like something worth worrying about. Until familiarity begins to feel a little too intimate. Suddenly, the man I've never thought twice about becomes increasingly difficult not to think about at all, and the boundaries that once seemed obvious start becoming dangerously easy to forget. Some boundaries are easy to respect. Until you start wondering what it would feel like to cross them. *** [ +18 | STORY CONTAINS MATURE & EXPLICIT CONTENT! READ AT OWN RISK ] ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO @INKEDCHERRY

At thirty-six, he's a lethal ghost who views her strictly as an assignment. At twenty-one, she's a reckless scientist who refuses to be told when to breathe. He's supposed to keep her safe and keep his distance. Instead, she's ruining his detachment, and he's realizing some lines are meant to be broken.