{ Book 2 of the Marino Series } Geovanni Marino & Eboni Darko. Two book lovers falling in love with one another. Reading books is an escape from reality to them. Imagining & fantasying about things they wish were real. The two meet at a library on a boring regular day, instantly becoming friends not knowing what's to come. An innocent & sweet friendship turned into a very sexual, intimate & sinful relationship. ___________________________________________ "I love you more than life itself Geo." Eboni. "I am yours." Geovanni. ••• • Book 2 of the Marino Series • { smut, abuse , depression & heart ache } Started: 04/15/23 Finished: ...

"What happened?!" I demand as John and I get out of my car. "Your sister and brother are inside. We don't know what's going on?! The building just collapsed." Her third grade teacher, Mrs. Smith says. John and I looked at each other. My mouth went dry and my palms started sweating. The school is broken and swarming with police officers. In the middle of the school it looks like it is completely caved in on itself and I think that's where she is. I could feel every heartbeat pumping blood through my body as I ran forward into the destroyed school. I always knew this day would come, but damn my luck! I thought it would happen at home. I rush in the school to get her, hopefully it's not to late.

To most people werewolves and vampires and other such creatures are a myth, but for Emily, her world is full of werewolves and vampires. I mean considering she's an All-Shifter, of course that's what her world consists of. There are four types of shifters. Human-Shifters and Animal-Shifters are the most common. The rare ones are the Fantasy-Shifters. The ones who were thought to be extinct are the All-Shifters. There are only a few people who know that All-Shifters are not extinct. The reason? Emily is the LAST All-Shifter and when people find out its not easy for her, but, she gets help from a surprising source. Warning: Contains cussing (Temporarily on hold)

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Many people don't know me, but I don't know who me is either. I can't tell you if I'm the loud or rude stereotypical black girl because Mom would say I need to speak up. I'm using my library voice with strangers. I can't tell you I'm the introvert because I like good company. I was born into a world that judges me before they get to know me. And try to attack the concept of happiness. I need it most in this filthy world we live in. I need you. Because you listened and didn't say a word. Just you being there was enough to make me believe you understood the troubles in my sentences and words spoken in a foreign language. I want myself back but I can't remember who I was. || Ebonee desires life to the fullest content as a brown skin but is constantly faced with life's realities that can never turn into her sudden dreams. As she is constantly faced with comparisons of her beauty, cruel judgment, and love she didn't expect it to turn out so unplanned in her premeditated life. || || Then there's Beau, who lives such a different world outside of the way Ebonee sees it as he tries to determine who is his out to kill him. Living two different worlds in hope to find a middle ground, somewhere, between light and dark, in the novel of BROWN SKIN. ||

"Let me die first or it's like I'll die twice." He tells me. I love him, my husband, more than I love myself. I love him more passionately than I thought I ever could with anyone. I would do anything for him! Whatever he asked of me I'd do it and whatever I asked him he'd do for me. We were a team and he wanted me to give him the one thing he has been begging me to do, give up on him. I have given up a lot to be his wife, but I've never regretted it. I have had beautiful children. I am a queen and I am with the love of my life. "You won't go first and neither will I." I hiss, "We'll go at the same time." He gives me a small smile and takes a step closer to me. I close my eyes for a moment and when I open them I make complete eye contact with him. He is a giant in ever scene of the word. "You truly are the light of my life." "And you will always be my dark angel." "You can't save, my love. It can't be changed. It is fate." "No one foresaw our union." "And?" "And so I defied fate once, who's to say I won't make it my bitch again." He picks me up and bring me to his level. "I love that fire in you."

I'm almost there! I look behind and see everyone is still fighting. I crawl to the fountain of youth. I'm right on the edge and then I feel a sharp pain in my back. I look up and see he stabbed me. The surprise nearly killed me, because he's supposed to be dead! I killed him myself and left him for dead, but now in this sick way he is the one to end me. Fuck him! He walks over to the fountain of youth and drinks it, but this story isn't about that. It's about how we got there. I am the captain of a very large and vicious crew, love them to death though. Can't trust them though, we are merchant pirates. We steal and we sell, simple and easy. But I got word that the fountain of youth was real and if I could collect it and sell it I could retire extravagantly. I couldn't pass that up! Money is the thing that keeps my blood pumping.

Hi, I'm Eliza. Looking back I probably should have left him alone. We went to school together all our lives, but I doubt he knew who I was. First red flag. Of course I knew him. The entire school knew him. Second red flag. He was hiding something. Something scary, something that could break us before we began. Strike three. He should be out, then he kissed me and I still swoon thinking about it. Then he fucked my sister. Strike a million! My smart mouth best friend Beatrice is as much my therapist as I am hers. Trauma buddies! She never lets me live down what happened between us but she was my biggest supporter. But let's skip ahead to I ended the bad boy's reign. But believe me, I wanted to kill him many times-I still do- at some points I even hated him. I'm not gonna lie he probably hated me too. As many times as I kicked him in the balls I probably messed up my chances of having children. Well... no I didn't. Not to mention all the pots I threw at him. That's a concussion right there. God, is my relationship that crazy? Elijah says it means make up sex will be great. I can't say he's wrong, but won't admit he's right. In all honesty, I'm the only one that was there for him and he's all I want. I ended his reign on bitches and hoes, captured his heart, and I'm never letting go.

"What? You never been high before?" I ask with a teasing smile. "No, I have. It's just- Well that doesn't look like weed to me." My lips stretch wider at his flustering. I step closer to him, cupping his face with my hands and pull him close, so our noses brush against one another. By the way his eyes widened in shock, it's clear he wasn't expecting such contact from me. Humans, they're so sensitive to the things they do every day, touching. I focus back on him, and gently blow the toxin in his face. His eyes close as he breathes it in and I know it's already taken effect on him. "You can feel everything now. Your senses are ten times better than before." I whisper, my lips lightly grazing his ear and my hand traveling down his chest. ~ Winona, that's my name, yeah, it's pretty awesome if you ask me. To many, Winona is the party girl, who could never miss a good time if her life depended on it. I'm not gonna lie, that is me! Every high you could imagine was at my fingertips. Thanks to the alien government installing a transporting device in us as children, we can go from planet to planet without hesitation. I'm known throughout the galaxy, because it's not a good party unless I'm there! Second, I'm the most kick ass person you'll ever come in contact with! If there was an award I'd win ever year, but I'll soon be known as something else and I don't know if I'll like it or not! When a Human spaceship crashes on my home planet Saturn, that's the final straw. Me being me, I'm not quite sure how the hell I got into the situation and with a human of all species! Don't get me wrong Humans are cool and all, but thier parties are shit and their drugs weak! Well being a badass person, I gotta find a way to stop evil even though I want nothing more than to relax my plump ass. I know deep down I have to do this! Even if that Human isn't the most ideal person. Since I'll also be committing treason with them. Should I do it?

**** This is NOT the second book to "The Deaf of Me", the titles are just similar. I have talked with the author about this and the similarities in the stories. Neither of us care. Please enjoy!****