🌺🌺 "Hey- hey, baby, you need to breathe." I reached over with one hand, taking the exit to the highway with the other. "Come on, take that off." "Stop, stop," she cried. Her voice was muffled, like glass breaking under a cotton cover. "I don't- I don't want you to see-" "No, no, come on." I pulled at the blanket. "You look beautiful, baby. You always look beautiful." She dropped the blanket from her face, sobbing and snotty and mascara-stained and shining with sweat and stress and an amber coca-cola sheen and I felt like I could see every organ pumping in her body. Like her heart was laid out for surgery. "See," I rubbed my hand on her shoulder, "Beautiful. You're beautiful." 💫💫 When Scott returns to his grandfather's mangrove-wrapped shack on the Florida coast, he's expecting quiet days and shark-watching summers-not three shipwrecked girls from the flooded islands sharing Pop's home. There's Sami, fierce and sun-drenched. Summer, radiant and untouchable. And Selena, who holds her little sister close and looks at Scott like she already knows how it all ends. As days melt into nights, lemonade into secrets, Scott's soul starts tying itself to theirs-limb by limb, heart to heart. But the summer is running out, and not everyone will make it to fall. He thought he came back to escape. Instead, he's found the summer that will change everything... and the girl he was never meant to love.

MAJOR EDITING ONGOING!!! Mia Cherie X Aaron Valentino "You drive me insane, Mia," he continued, stepping closer, his voice dripping with possession. "Every time you smile at another guy, every time they try to talk to you, I feel like I'm seconds away from losing my mind." His fingers brushed against my cheek, his touch hesitant yet burning. Then, his voice drops into a whisper. "Can I kiss you?" A shiver runs down my spine. I don't hesitate. I nod, not trusting myself to speak. Tropes: Badboy x Goodgirl Rich mmc x scholarship student fmc Kill anyone who touches her (literally) 👀 HEA

A little girl in a pink, cloud-soft frock once wandered into a world that should have warned her away. She found them at the edge of a dying playground. Two identical boys, caked in mud, standing too still for children their age. Their eyes followed her long before she spoke. "Why are you both sad?" she asked, her voice light and untouched by caution. They smiled. "Because we are dirty," one said. "And no one wants to play with us," the other added. It should have been a simple answer. It wasn't. She frowned, as if the world had made a small, correctable mistake, and took their hands without hesitation. That was the first choice. The smallest one. The one that mattered most. By the time they reached the park, the air felt different. It was quiet and heavier than anything, as though something unseen had drawn closer just to listen. "Let's play," she said brightly, tossing a ball into the space between them. But there were only three of them. And she refused to leave either side. So she ran back and forth, laughter breaking into breathless gasps, small shoes scuffing against the dirt as she tried to belong everywhere at once. With him. With him. Never choosing. Never stopping. Until the boys stopped smiling. Until they simply watched. "You'll get tired," one of them said softly. "You can't play both sides forever," the other murmured. But she only grinned, flushed and stubborn, her voice trembling with a promise she did not understand. "I can. And I will play with both of you." That was the second choice. Years later, when the bodies began to surface, when whispers of manipulation, obsession, and something far darker crept into every room she entered, no one thought to trace it back to a sunlit afternoon and a game that never really ended. But some games don't stop. They wait. And the most dangerous players are the ones who were never taught to choose.

Book 1 Of The Corrupt Me Series ‼️18 VERY MATURE‼️ "He Would Burn The World For Her But Not Let A Single Flame Touch Her" "May God Have Mercy On My Enemies Cause I won't" . . . . . . . . . . Villains aren't just born, they're made, and created into their awful versions of themselves, well all know them as pure evil heartless souls, but there will always be a backstory to why they were the Villains of a story. Misha Larson. 'A heartless, cold-blooded, man that ever existed' but do you know the real Misha? why he became the way he is? No. you don't only she does. Blair Ambrose. The light to darkness, the angel of clouds, his light to the darkness. he may be the villain of this story but he isn't the villain of her story, and he never was. He's Heartless. She's Caring. He's Cold-Blooded. She's Heart Warmth. He's Vicious. But She's Corrupted. Two Broken Souls Trying To Find Peace In Different Ways. . . . . . . . . . . -Enemies To Lovers - Dark Romance - Forbidden -Brothers Best Friend -Billionaire Boyfriend - CEO -Kidnapping - Opposites Attract #1 traitor #1 darklove

ᴍᴇᴛᴀɴᴏɪᴀ - ᴛʜᴇ ᴊᴏᴜʀɴᴇʏ ᴏꜰ ᴄʜᴀɴɢɪɴɢ ᴏɴᴇ'ꜱ ᴍɪɴᴅ, ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ, ꜱᴇʟꜰ, ᴏʀ ᴡᴀʏ ᴏꜰ ʟɪꜰᴇ. Ever since that cruel college party, Arden and Ophelia never were the same. Arden decided to hate her with his whole existence, because of certain events that happened at the party. On the other side, Ophelia stayed loyal to her truth and has no plans to give in to an arrogant guy. Arden Nolan is known as Wellspring's New Dawn College ice hockey team's captain and the most wanted man in college. Ophelia Astor - one of the new talents in figure skating, who's representing her college and has a bunch of hatters around her. "ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪꜰ ɪ ᴛᴏʟᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴛᴛɪɴɢ ᴍᴇ ᴡᴀꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡᴏʀꜱᴛ ᴅᴇᴄɪꜱɪᴏɴ?" Two of them live their lives full of past trauma and tragedies, which still don't let them live fully and enjoy their youth. When they have to step up on their life stage - ice, they chose to hide everything under their skin, but sometimes it becomes too hard. 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞 *This book talks about serious topics and uses strong language.

Metanoia (n.) the journey of changing one's mind, heart, self or way of life. Part one Darcy Russo a nine year old girl living in a run down orphanage on the outskirts of Athens, Greece has had to fend for herself for the majority of her life. Being abandoned as a child and having to endure cruelty and abuse from those who were supposed to look after her has caused her to become untrusting and wary of others. Instead she seeks solace in nature, spending any and all free time exploring the wilderness and the ocean with her dog Bear. Although Darcy has accepted that she can only depend on herself, what happens when she finds out that she wasn't abandoned she was taken and her eight older brothers will stop at nothing to get her back. Part two After being kidnapped by the Russian mafia and tortured for years for information she doesn't have, Darcy Russo becomes cold and calculated. When the leader of the Russian mafia Ivan Volkov offers her a deal, train and work for him as an assassin or die, she can't exactly refuse. Being nicknamed 'Sin' by the underworld, she changes her identity and becomes a ruthless, efficient killer. But what happens when she is sent on a mission to destroy the family she once loved. Will she let the resentment she has for them for being the reason she was tortured take over or will she spare their lives? And what happens when she catches the attention of her brother's best friend.

She'd so anything for her family.Including Marry The person she hates the most Inessa Cyzarine-You say who I say self-respect. Family before pride he'd always said whatever they wanted he'd do including Marry the woman he hates.. Alessandro Russo-Stay real,stay loyal or stay the fuck away from me.

When 17 year old November Jones accidentally burns off her left eyebrow in a freak accident, she brushes it off. Nothing a bit of makeup can't fix, right? But when she finds herself shoved into the backseat of her own car as a couple of very big, very bad, and very dangerous-looking men drive off with it, things can't be so easily fixed...especially since it's not just her missing eyebrow that needs to be covered, it's also the fact that one of the most wanted criminal organizations in the country accidentally kidnapped a teenage girl while trying to escape a drug deal gone wrong. Could things get any worse? Well, with a girl like November in the mix, the answer is yes.

Chin up sweetheart, she'd kill to see you fall." "You'd let me fall?" She asks. ☆☆☆ Isabella Cooper ☆ Meek.Hollow.Broken.Fragile "She's had her own back throughout her journey, and now she'll fight for theirs too." Eli Parker ☆ Observant.Perceptive.Reluctant.Insightful "She is the only woman I shall worship. She is my eternal belief. Her and only her." ~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~• Growing up, Isabella faces numerous challenges that many teenagers can relate to: dysfunctional family, financial struggles, insecurity in high school and social anxiety. However, what sets Isabella's story apart is her determination to overcome these struggles by doing something unconventional - street racing.