✧ Welcome to Why Him? ✧ Elena Carter is a scholarship student with a plan: survive the elite, get the degree, and never look back. She's the sunshine in a world draped in shadow. But the shadows have a name, and his name is Riven Blackwood. A billionaire heir who has already conquered the world Elena is just trying to enter, Riven is cold, cynical, and dangerously bored. He's a man who has seen it all and hated most of it-until he saw her. Now, they're trapped under the same roof, and the "playboy" has found the one girl who doesn't want his money or his name. He's morally grey, he's possessive, and he's decided that if Elena Carter is going to ruin his life, he's going to enjoy every second of the fall. ─── 𖥸 ─── Riven: "Everyone in here is starving for my gaze, Elena. But you? You won't even look at me. And that makes you the most interesting problem I've ever had to solve." _______ Elena: "Because living under the same roof as someone like Riven Blackwood feels like walking on broken glass every single day." ─── 𖥸 ─── What to expect: ♛ Billionaire x Scholarship Student ♛ Dark Academia Aesthetics ♛ "Touch Her and Die" / Obsessive Lead ♛ Slow Burn / Healing from Trauma ♛ He falls first... and he falls hard. 🖤🦋💓 Read to find out! 💓🦋🖤

Highest ranking: #2 darkhumor #3 darkhumor His voice low and dangerous, eyes locked on her, " you don't get it , do you, mi amor ? I don't care if you run, hide or push me away. You became mine the second I heard your voice , I'll burn down everything and everyone who tries to take you from me. Even you." ______________________💗____________________ A simple game of truth or dare was never supposed to mean anything-until Selene's voice reached the wrong man. Alejandro Cortez, a ruthless mafia king, doesn't believe in accidents. One call, one laugh, and now she's the obsession he never saw coming. Selene is the beat his heart refuses to skip for even a second-soft in all the ways his world is sharp, innocent in the face of his darkness. But when the devil decides he wants something, there's no turning back. And this time, he wants her.

"Mercy is expensive", he said quietly. "Most people can't afford it." I thought i was applying for a normal nanny job. A good pay a quiet child, A simple household. But nothing about the Volkov estate was simple. The child i was hired to care for is the hire to Volkov Empire. And his father? The man everyone fears. Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable. Now I am trapped in a world where power is earned through blood and betrayal...

#18+ #Adult #Voilence #Language #smut As Ruby anticipated her marriage with a polite sweet Prince, it was suddenly broken as her father signed an impossible treaty. She was sold to the Alpha King as his wife to keep the peace between the two kingdoms. Betrayed by her own father she gave in to what was expected of her. And be the wife of a Lycan King. She never realized how possessive a man could be before she met him. And he, who could have everything including all women at his disposal found himself only obsessed with the innocent human married to him. "White doesn't suit you." He whispered as he pulled the laces of her dress and let the fabric fall down her body. "Pearls don't suit you either." his hand pulled apart the pearls she wore letting the choker fall down her chest. "Then my king suggests I go about n-naked-" She gasped as his fingers wrapped around her neck and he shook his head softly. "Bare only in my sight" With that he bites down her neck causing her to fall in his arms.

Eliza Labelle had survived a shooting that should have killed her, but surviving turned out to be the beginning of her problems rather than the end. After waking in a hospital bed with a bullet wound and a government determined to bury the incident, she discovered that the man responsible had vanished behind the walls of a place most people only whispered about. While her family tried to push her back into her privileged city life, strange events and growing unease made it impossible for her to forget what happened. When she was suddenly taken from everything she knew and dragged beyond the safety of the world she had grown up in, Eliza found herself trapped in a brutal land ruled by old loyalties, hidden power structures, and people who lived by laws far different from those of the city. As she struggled to survive among dangerous strangers, she uncovered secrets that connected powerful families, forbidden territories, and a world that had been carefully hidden from ordinary people. The deeper she was pulled into that world, the harder it became to separate friend from enemy, truth from manipulation, and survival from sacrifice. What began as a fight to return home slowly became a journey that forced her to confront the darkest parts of human nature, the cost of loyalty, and the reality that some doors could never be closed once they were opened.

𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐨 is a man Italy has learned to fear. Ruthless, merciless, and seated at the head of a blood-soaked empire, he has never been known for forgiveness. His unfaithful wife learned that before her death. Now, the only person Dante cares for is his five-year-old son, Matteo. When Matteo needs a nanny, Dante makes his expectations painfully clear. He wants someone he will never look at twice. An old woman. A nun. Anyone incapable of becoming another temporary desire. Then Sister 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐡 steps into his mansion. At twenty-one, Delilah has known nothing beyond the walls of the church. Gentle, painfully innocent, and carrying wounds she has been taught to call punishment, she arrives in Italy believing she has been sent to care for a lonely little boy. She knows nothing of the criminal empire surrounding her. Nothing of the blood on Dante Russo's hands. And nothing of the way he looks at her. She was supposed to be invisible to him. Instead, the quiet little nun becomes the only temptation the devil cannot ignore. And Dante Russo has never been a man who denies himself what he wants.

She was their princess. Then she became their shame. At seventeen, Aadhira was accused of a crime that tore her family apart. Overnight, she lost her home, her reputation, and everyone she loved. Seven years later, she returns as the bride of Arjun rathore. To her family, she is still the girl who ruined everything. To her husband, she is an unwanted responsibility. But while everyone is busy judging her, Aadhira is hiding secrets of her own. The past isn't over. The truth isn't dead. And someone should have made sure she never came back. • misunderstood daughter • arranged marriage •secret identity •cold fml × indifferent ml • strangers × life long partners •strong fml × strong ml

𝐀 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐞. Everyone tells Evelyn Sterling how lucky she is. As the youngest daughter of one of San Francisco's most powerful businessmen, she has money, beauty, privilege, and everything people dream of having. But nobody sees the bars. Her father controls everything where she goes, who she speaks to, who she befriends, whether she can date, and even how she spends her college years. He calls it protection. Evelyn calls it a prison. All she has ever wanted is something painfully ordinary: friends, freedom, and a life that belongs to her. Then a threat against her father changes everything, and Evelyn gets a new shadow. 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧. Twenty-nine. Six-foot-two. Former street fighter. Professionally trained. Cold as steel, intimidating as hell, and almost impossible to read. His assignment is simple: protect 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠. Nothing more. But Evelyn isn't the spoiled billionaire's daughter he expected. She's quiet, lonely, and exhausted from a life she never chose. Beneath her silence is a girl desperately trying to escape the golden cage her father built around her. Silas is supposed to protect her from the dangers outside. Instead, he becomes the first person who truly sees her. And the closer he gets, the harder it becomes to remember where his duty ends and his obsession begins. Because Silas Raven doesn't know how to protect something without becoming possessive of it. She was born into a golden cage. He was hired to guard it. Neither of them expected him to become the key.

Cursed Curiosities Collection #1 - | Pandit x Village girl | COMPLETED "This is how it's going to happen," I rasp, my voice dark and possessive as I slide my hands down her body, my lips brushing against her ear. "I'm going to fuck my seed into your pussy, Sukriti, you're going to swell with my child, and there won't be a single part of you that won't be mine." ••• What happens when a pandit's vow is shattered by temptation? Ronav Zanak has always lived by his rules--until he encounters Sukriti Bishnoi. An innocent, cheerful 19-year-old girl, trapped by a curse that isolates her from the world. She's not a broken soul. She smiles through it all, despite the cruel weight of the world pressing down on her. But it's this very strength that draws Ronav to a one-way abyss of obsession. He's determined to resist. Holding on to the vow he's sworn--because one touch, one mistake, and he'll ruin them both. And she will become his greatest sin. ••• Available with English translations. All kinds of media used in this book belong to their legitimate owners. ••• ⚠ WARNING : This story contains mature content including strong language and depictions of violence that may not be suitable for some readers. Reader's discretion is advised. •••

She is the radiant and free-spirited princess of Malwa-beautiful, bubbly, and blissfully unaware of the haunting truths buried in her past. Since childhood, she has been bound to a royal alliance with the prince of Madhya Pradesh-a commitment inked by fate, not by choice. He is the merciless King of Rajasthan-CEO by day, mafia lord by night. Ruthless, inhuman, and feared across the nation, he commands the underworld syndicate known as the Black Domain, where he's worshipped and dreaded as The Beast in Human Form. With a wicked smile, he slaughters like it's a sport-death means nothing to him. But what happens when fate dares to intertwine their worlds? What unfolds when two cold-blooded beasts cross paths... for one delicate, untouchable beauty? She flinches at the thought of crushing an ant. He slaughters men like they're insects beneath his boots. Their contrast is more than striking-it's cataclysmic. She is dawn. He is dusk. She is the warmth of spring. He is the chill of winter. She breathes life. He brings death. She is softness wrapped in silk, the only calm that can silence the storm in him. He is steel cloaked in shadows, a living fortress of pain and vengeance. And yet... she is the only one who dares to step into his darkness. The only one who can shatter the walls he built to cage his own heart. ꧁༺༻꧂★᭄ꦿ᭄ꦿ Tropes : - Villian in love - touch her and die - mafia romance - slow burn - she fell first but he fell harder - forced proximity - Mafia x Fashion designer - Grumpy x sunshine