Ever since Hadley Castillo lost her mother at a young age. Her father pulled away and entrusted Hadley's life with maids and a security guard. However, as she grew older and started to resent the guards. She decided to make their task a nightmare and a game to entertain herself. Thus, driving her father mad for years and going through multiples of guards, this time, her father switched things around by bringing in a woman.

"Why the fuck are you even here anyway!? For fuck's sake, I don't need anyone!" the girl blew up as her cheeks flush in anger, outrage and confusion. However, just two words from the girl diffuses her anguish, her body relaxes, her gaze softens, her body practically betraying her as she hears her say "Come cuddle?"

(Teacherxstudent) Kai has her life figured out at the age of nineteen. She's been independent ever since she was thirteen years old and doesn't rely on anyone in her life to support her. She has her own house, her own car and pays her own bills. Kai has been supporting herself ever since she left her foster parents when she was sixteen years old and has been doing it on her own since then. When it comes to independence, Kai can say she has everything she needs and that includes herself and only herself. But when someone comes into her life and makes her fall harder than she fell before, realizing that being independent comes with a price but allowing someone inside your life comes with an even bigger price that Kai soon comes face to face with. Kai's life changes in a way she can't comprehend cause this woman she allowed herself to get comfortable with becomes a whole new meaning to the word independent.

Morgan has had a tough life. From growing up to losing her mom when she was only nine years old, to having a unstable lifestyle that involved moving to place after place. Not to mention the countless therapists she's had to deal with over the years and never finding a solution to her messed up life. All of Morgan's problems are getting worse by the day and there's no escaping them. Until one woman, who happens to be her therapist, finds a way into Morgan's mind and settles her demons. Can this woman help Morgan after all these years? Or is she just another bump in the road for Morgan to struggle getting across.

"I was ordered to kill you." 21 year old Mavis Griffon is a stripper for the Inferno night club when one night, a woman in a silver dress walks in. Calm, deadly, and a knockout blonde. There is something alluring about her, something intoxicating in the way she pulls out her gun and aims it at Mavis with words that will change her life forever. "I was ordered to kill you." Her eyes search mine, as though she is waiting for me to scream, to run, to fight. But I only let a smirk grace my lips, and I hide my trembling hands as I say, "Then what are you waiting for?"

Kodi Cooper deals with anxiety after an incident and has a son. Her parents own a multimillion dollar company and she just wants to live her dream of singing, but has to get there herself. One day she puts a little note with her number under a rock at a park, waiting for somebody to find it and text her, in hope to find a new friend. When somebody does, this girl changes her world. 110.5k words 123.1k words if I include the extra chapters COMPLETE.