She was supposed to be terrified. Instead, she treated the kidnapping like a vacation. After years of hiding behind fake smiles, oversized sweaters, and exhausting normalcy, Naomi no longer remembers what it feels like to truly relax. Her quiet office job is draining, people are unbearable, and pretending to be ordinary every single day is slowly suffocating her. Then she gets abducted by a massive Russian assassin with blood on his hands and winter in his eyes. Oddly enough? It's the most peace she's felt in years. But Viktor isn't just a killer. He's a survivor of a classified government experiment created by the one man Naomi spent her childhood admiring: her father. Once celebrated as a genius scientist specializing in chemical weapons and psychological conditioning, Naomi's father vanished after a catastrophic incident years ago, leaving behind destroyed lives, buried secrets, and men turned into weapons. Men like Viktor. Now powerful organizations believe Naomi unknowingly carries the final key to her father's research hidden somewhere inside her memories. Viktor was ordered to kidnap her. Interrogate her. Break her if necessary. He fully intended to. Until the quiet black woman he expected to fear him looked around his isolated cabin and calmly asked if there was food. The longer Naomi stays in captivity, the more dangerous their connection becomes. Behind her soft voice and exhausted smiles hides a mind trained from childhood to wear masks, conceal intelligence, and survive at all costs. And Viktor is beginning to realize something horrifying: The scientist who created him may have created Naomi, too. Just in a different way. 🕯️

"Hey husband." He glared. "Since you married me out of so much love, princess treatment is mandatory." "You've been testing my patience since morning." Devin said flatly. "Oh, have you given up already? Bad. Don't give up so easily, husband. You have to bear with me all your life." He held my arms and pulled me closer. "I'm not good at taking tantrums." Our faces were inches apart. I whispered "Don't worry, I'll make you a pro." "Samantha, I'm not Davide who is madly in love with you and is willing to tolerate this bullshit." "Tantrums in front of Davide? Nope. Never." I smiled. His eyes flicked, just for a second to my lips before returning to my face. "It's only for you, husband." "Stop calling me that." "What? Husband? But you are my husband. Lawful husband." A slow smirk tugged at his lips. "You know... it'll be fun taming you. Now I'm here like you wanted, so let's go." "But-" I started. I am not going with you so easily. "Now what?" "My legs are hurting." I pouted. .... She was chaos. He was calm. She was a pure soul. He was a murderer. She was sold. He was the buyer. Samantha Jones, an innocent lively soul. She has a dream to open her own cafe. Devin Volkov, a CEO billionaire and mafia leader who is here to destroy Samantha's family. She started living with Devin's family 8 years ago, she was scared of him and he hated her for one mistake. He bought her for millions of dollars from her own father. Why did he? What did he have to do with her? Why did he marry her even after hating her? Tropes : grumpy x sunshine age-gap slow-burn forced marriage possessive she fell first, he fell harder

────────────────── .˚ᵎ┊ 𝗌𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗇𝗀𝖾𝗋𝗌 ⋆.ೃ࿔:･❝ 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠, 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛. ❞ - 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒 「 in which dominique nott - a pureblood witch - falls for a rebellious arrogant troublemaker and his good- natured werewolf friend, both of whom show her what it is like to be loved despite their differences. but will that alone save her from her fate? 」 HARRY POTTER FANFIC REMUS LUPIN x FEM!OC x SIRIUS BLACK (poly) STARTED : 22 . 03 . 2020 REPUBLISHED : 20. 08. 2023 STATUS : ONGOING @𝗇𝖺𝗀𝗂𝗇𝗂𝗂-

In a world overrun by the dead, she survives by staying alone-until a chance encounter with a wounded child and the broken men protecting him changes everything. What begins as reluctant trust slowly becomes something more, a found family, a purpose, and a quiet love that grows in the shadows of ruin. But the past always lingers, and healing in the apocalypse isn't easy. A story of survival, of healing, and of learning to choose life-even when the world has ended.

[2024 WATTYS SHORTLISTED] [18+] In the picturesque lakeside town, the calm waters mask the storm within Juniper Jenkins' heart. Betrayed and broken by her cheating boyfriend, she flees to the sanctuary of her friend's lakeside house, to work remotely for the summer. What she doesn't expect? Running into Wells Hansen-her rival from the Seattle Sun Times-of all people. And of all places, he's running the only coffee shop in town with decent Wi-Fi. She's sworn off men for the summer-pinky-promised no boys-with her two best friends. So there's no way she's breaking that pact. Not after what just happened. But fate doesn't care about pacts, and Juniper keeps bumping into Wells no matter how hard she tries not to. She resents him, and the feeling seems mutual. At least, that's what she believes.

"This is the hall bathroom," I motioned as we passed, "and this is the bedroom." "Bedroom?" Cadence clarified. "Just one? But you said I'd be staying here." I turned to see her blushing again, and had the urge to place my hand on her cheek to see if it was as warm as it looked. I didn't. "I still have to make sure you don't try anything," I explained. "You'll be staying in here. Don't worry-- it's a king sized bed." "And," Cadence began, looking anywhere but me as she took in the room, "what else does making sure I don't try anything entail?" I couldn't tell if she was trying to provoke me or not, but either way, I had made up my mind the second I determined she would stay with me exactly how keeping her here would go. "Well for starters," I told her seriously, "I'm going to need you to strip." --- Cadence Maurice wanted nothing more in the world than to have the engagement trip of her life with her fiancé, Isaiah in the beautiful city of Moscow. But all too quickly, everything was taken from her. Isaiah was shot by a man in a mask, and she was kidnapped to a desolate mansion to be interrogated about him. She thought she knew everything about her husband to-be, but the more she's questioned, the more she begins to think that maybe her sweet fiancé was the bad guy. Only, as Cadence quickly discovers, in this story, there is no good guy. Adler Ulrich, assassin by trade, and prized hitman for the dangerous Fedorov Family, thought he'd seen it all. But when he is sent to kill an enemy of the Family and finds his target using an innocent young women as a shield, he's not sure he has. When he brings the woman in for questioning instead of killing her alongside her lying fiancé, he becomes unsure of whether he's saving the blonde-haired beauty, or dooming her to a fate worse than death. Book 3 in the Rough Love Novels *This novel CAN be read as a standalone book. **Currently down for editing! Coming back summer 2021.

the mask of a monster hiding the broken and corrupted heart of a young woman. xaden riorson x f!oc fourth wing - tbd january 24, 2024 - tbd tag ranks #1 xaden riorson 2/16/24 #2 violet sorrengail 1/28/24 #3 xaden riorson 1/28/24 #2 iron flame 1/30/24 #2 liam marai 2/16/24 #3 liam marai 2/15/24 #5 fourth wing 2/15/24

in which the daughter of apollo is a drop of sunshine with the power to heal like never seen before - in real life that is. ↳ or reagan corona is constantly compared to a fairytale princess and percy jackson has never seen a more fitting description of a person. 𖤓 pre tlt → tlo act zero : the prologue, the lighting thief , and sea of monsters - completed act one : the titan's curse - in process... act two : battle of the labyrinth - n/a act three : the last olympian - n/a 𖤓 started: 2/3/2024 ended: xx/xx/xxxx cover and collages included made by me (ariyougood) ‼️rated mature for sensitive topics, graphic depictions of gore, language, religious trauma and description of medical conditions. warning will NOT be provided before chapters, but viewer discretion is advised‼️ 🥇 in #rickriordan 🥉in #camphalfblood 🥇in #tangeld 🥇in #canondivergence 🥇in #pjo 🥇in #ares 🥇in #apollo inspired by "A God Complex" by lovies on quotev, and the four part book series named "The Maddness Series" by FandomQueens696. Oc is based on the movie tangled.

To save her sisters from starvation, to provide them with a home, Isabella Archeron married Tomas Mandray before Feyre went over the wall. When Feyre returns to meet with the Queens Isabella and her son Oliver are dragged into the conflict above the wall and meet a certain group of overgrown bats. Trapped in a toxic marriage that no longer helps to keep her family safe, Isabella meets her mates at the wrong time. #1 in ACOTAR #1 in ACOMAF #2 in Cassian #2 in Velaris Started: 20/03/2023 Finished: 11/08/2023 OC / bat boys (but Rhys is a prick at the begining) ACOTAR AU Disclaimer: I do not own any characters, plot or world building. That is the wonderful production of Sarah J. Mass. This is a fanfic to satisfy my addiction while I wait for the next book to come out