It wasn't supposed to happen, but it did. No one could know, especially not her Father. He was best friends with the man, for fuck sake. It was a mistake, she told him, a mistake that could never happen again. Robin Castle grew up a military child, always staying at her grandparents until she was eight. Frank married his wife, and then Robin only stayed at her grandparents on the weekends. It was hard. Frank missed out on a lot of stuff, but always made up for it when he came back. And then, when Robin was sixteen, she was introduced to a man with jet black hair and a smile that held mischief under its kind demeanor. It wasn't supposed to happen. He picked her up from college when she was nineteen, they were home alone in Frank's house. A mistake, she told him as they quickly got dressed after hearing a car door. He was deployed again, along with Frank, a week later. She felt guilty, she felt even more worried. She had hugged them both, along with Curtis before they left. It was hard sometimes. DISCLAIMER: This story has explicit language, sexual content, drugs and alcohol use. This story is a fanfiction of The Punisher, so the characters you recognize DON'T belong to me. Some details may be changed to match my plot, so if you don't like that, bye. *I know the description sucks. Read the prologue, please. *This doesn't have a set year. I guess we'll put it in 2020? But, I will not be participating in 2020's version of the Hunger Games. Therefore, all of the issues in 2020 will be suddenly gone and this will be a happy story to make you smile. Hopefully. *This is technically romancing a relationship with a pretty large age gap (16 years to be exact, according to my calculator). She's nineteen (I've decided this after writing the prologue) while he's thirty-five. So, if you're not into that, bye. IT'S OF COURSE, 100% COMPLETELY CONSENSUAL AND LEGAL. [Started: 8/24/2020] [Still being written]

He has a reputation of being the worst boss ever. And he's looking for a new personal assistant. So, why not give it a try? When you have nothing else to lose you don't mind working for a monster. Or that's what Sophia thought. Oh, but you should never mix business with pleasure.

Alina Starkov is the bastard daughter of the Duke of Keramsov. Having grown up around royalty, she's befriended Prince Nikolai, who has decided that now they're eighteen she's the perfect girl to become his future queen. But when the King's advisor, Lord Aleksander Morozova finds out that she's a bastard he instantly steps in and challenges Nikolai to a duel forcing Alina to either accept his hand in marriage or risk the life of the crown Prince. Lord Morozova doesn't want Nikolai, whose legitimacy is already questioned, marrying another bastard so he takes it upon himself to force Alina into marriage. To save the Prince, Alina agrees and finds herself in a marriage with the most dangerous man in all of Ravka.

Kirigan loves to manipulate people for his own selfish reasons, with fear or even more likely seduction. So when a Heartrender uses that on him will he know it or will he fall for it? Feelings run deeper than that especially when the two lovers have history. ''𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱?'' 𝘏𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘭𝘺. ''𝘈𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴,'' 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘺𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘰𝘶𝘣𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦. [S&B season 1]