She looks up at me, taking a step forward and smiling slightly, "How can I ever get hurt when I have you here to protect me?" "But you could have gotten hurt," I murmur softly, hanging my head and feeling my shoulders drop, the tension seeping from my body. "No. Stop," She cuts me off sternly but tenderly, "Don't talk like that, Reece. I'm okay, you're okay, we're okay," She speaks softly, reaching her hand up to gently brush her thumb over my cheek, just under the cut that's there. "We're okay," I repeat, taking a small step closer to her. She nods with a small smile, moving her hand down from my cheek and instead placing the palm of her hand on my chest, right over my heart. I know she can feel how fast my heart is beating. I just don't know why it's doing that. ~ Reece Carter is the bad boy of Northwood High. He smokes and he fights. He has countless tattoos covering his body. And he doesn't care about anything or anyone else. Layla Stevens is your average seventeen year-old girl, just trying to get through high school, with the friends she loves and doing the things she loves. When these two cross paths accidentally in an unusual way, they leave and never expect to speak to each other again. But fate has other plans. Layla finds her way into Reece's life and Reece doesn't know what to do about it. This ray of Sunshine suddenly meant something to him. She understood him when it seemed like no one else did. And he protected her from everyone who tried to hurt His Sunshine. Get ready for a story filled with bad pick-up lines, twin telepathy and a lot of fighting. Like, a LOT. Thanks for that one, Reece.

The Lost Mafia Princess Alyssa has gone through pain and torture. But it has made her who she is. Known in the underworld as the best assassin 'Death Princess' and unbeknown, the Australian Mafia Donna. In the business world she is the youngest trillionaire, owner of ASSYLA INC. What will happen once she is found by her parents after being kidnapped for 13 years. What happens when she falls on love with the heir of the Spanish mafia? Please Note: This includes Triggering Topics such as Abuse Torture Rape Includes Mature Scenes/Fluff Please read at your own risk. This is all fictional and for fun, just a way of expressing myself. The mafia is not like this in real life.This is fiction.

What does it mean to be a family? More so, what lengths do we go to for family? Sienna D'Angelo was a regular girl with an unusual upbringing. She always felt out of place in her lifestyle, though it wasn't until he mothers death where she found out who she truly was. She was brought into a world of violence and death at the hands of finding her father, whilst meeting a breathtaking Italian mobster who she just can't seem to stay away from. Entering this merciless world would ensure a dangerous life for herself but what she didn't know was how quick her old life would fall apart. Welcome to the Mafia, will you make it out alive?

Academic Rivals to Lovers in a Boarding School ..... "You wanna know the really dumb meaning behind my name?" He muses and I walk ahead of him. "Nope." "Basically, it means the transporter of goods by cart or wagon, it's from an old french word I believe. You wanna know yours?" "You looked up mine?" I question, hiding the small smile on my face, because I'm mad at him or whatever. For... I don't know why but I'm mad at him because I am. Carter catches up to me, grinning to himself. "Emilia means rivals, it's derived from the root of some latin word. Isn't that strange?" That's just a coincidence, he's probably lying anyway. "Yeah, real peculiar." I reply. ..... #2 - onebedtrope 16/06/22 #1 - mila 16/06/22

*Being re-written* This story is about a young girl named Akira. Getting kicked in the face every step in her life she had to learn how to be strong and learn to live by herself. Never having a family of her own she went ahead and found herself one. Now all of a sudden when her biological family enters her world asking for her to welcome them in how will she react? Read to find out her drama filled adventure with many laughs shared, memories made and tears shed :)

A bullied girl meets the popular new student. ***** "Still saying that you're perfectly okay?" Max whispers. I'm surprised to hear that his voice is shaking. "I'm going to find who did this to you." ***** One time, I was the most popular girl in school. All the students in Royal Heights, the school of the richest, knew me as the pretty Luna Klein, daughter of a famous superstar and a well-known billionaire. But the next thing I know, I'm an outcast. Just because of a complicated thing called love, everything turns 180 degrees. Now, I'm the girl that everyone hates. I've lost all my friends. I've lost my best friend. And I've lost the guy that I adore. All I can do now is to ignore the bullies and to survive each day quietly, hoping that I don't attract too much attention like before. Everyone in my school starts to call me loony Luna. Or lunatic, their favorite nickname. Then he suddenly arrives. Max Cooper, the new student who just got here from Australia. Insanely good-looking and smart, topped with his impressive family background, Max easily becomes everybody's favorite, especially the girls'. Disastrously, of all the other things he can pick, Max sets his eyes on the most forbidden and despised thing in Royal Heights. Me. Even though the whole school hates that idea. But pushing Max away is like trying to tame a wild lion that has just been released from its cage. Max is unstoppable. My mother once said that if a guy is really into you, he will pursue you no matter what. I think I know now how it feels. I just don't know how to handle my heart. Because every time his piercing eyes land on me, I feel like my heart is going to burst out of my chest. ***** THE KLEINS SERIES BOOK #2 © 2021 Anya Jayvyn. All Rights Reserved.

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Aria doesn't know if tomorrow will come. Beaten and nearly killed by her own mother makes her believe that no one truly loves her. After her 16th birthday she will fight. But what if I told you that she had to fight tomorrow. She will fight and leave making her actually have a purpose in life. But after a while she has to share her newly apartment with a boy, no a man. Will her trust issues allow this newly man to enter her life or will it ruin her even more? This story uses strong language, abuse, sexual themes. Some parts of the story will be in Italian as I am Italian myself but don't worry I will add the english translation underneath. Hope you guys enjoy it! Alsoo... this is my first story so I will probs be a bit rubbish but don't let that affect the actual story!! Hope u like it!! This story is cooperated with @laaibah1243 Go check her amzing story in her profile!!

Enrique Kings and Rose Argento. Two people who are similar in interest of work however completely different when it comes to personality are thrown into an arranged marriage together. A beautiful hard working women marries a hard-headed, cocky rude manwhore, who also happens to have a ton of money. He is angry and furious when his father reveals to him that he will be getting married to a girl who is four years younger than him, refusing to believe any of it. However both of them had no say in this as the parents had already arranged this since the day Rose was born, to merge the two companies together. They only small talk for matters of business and the usual "what's for dinner?" He brings girls over all the time, never acknowledging his wife but whenever they are around family, they always play the "happily married couple game", thinking it's working when in reality, mama and papa king have their doubts. Once proven right, the couple were heart broken at the fact as they wanted the two kids to be in an actual healthy relationship. In order for this to happen they made a plan. A stupid...idiotic plan. The two young souls are shipped off to a private "island" where they have to stay alone with no contact to the outside world. They can only get out when they have solved a few riddles and problems that will give them access to getting out. However they must work together and be civil with eachother. How will they handle being next to each other that long alone, without killing each other? What will fate do to these two workaholics who might just be falling into a comedic stupid love story?... Especially when a handsome little shit is thrown into the mix!

after a prank gone terribly wrong, hayden jones is sent across country to caldwell academy, a school for the bitchy, the dangerous and the rebellious. and if that wasn't bad enough, it becomes much worse when hayden is accidentally put in the male dormitory, landing her in a room with the school's notorious heartbreaker, chase everett. [not edited...like at all]