"Don't forget who had you on your knees, Zinovia," Sevan said, taking a long sip of her drink. Which I promptly snatched from her hand as soon as she lowered the glass from her mouth. "Don't forget all the power I held too," I said to her, not once glancing away from her darkened stare, "The mess I made of you milaya..." I trailed off, tilting my head as I openly analyzed her face, "It was pathetic really." Sevan smiled almost sadistically in response, "The mess you made of me?" she repeated the words in full amusement, "I'm still standing. 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶?" ⋙⋙⋙⋙⋘⋘⋘ Power isn't just taken, it's earned, and Zinovia Kozlov is ready to claim what's hers. After her father's death, Zinovia steps up to lead the Russian mafia as its most feared and adored princess. But she's soon pulled into the dark world of Sevan Cortez, the woman who commands the entire mafia underworld. What starts as a power struggle between them quickly spirals into a twisted game of sex, manipulation, and deceit. But even Zinovia knows... You can't ruin, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙.

Melany Fellington is a young girl who lives in poverty in a changed world. She doesn't have what others have the room to have, but family made what she has more than enough. During substandard times of oppression, a fatal interference threatens her family and they were all ill-equipped. She chooses to make a desperate decision to help them. But when misfortune is all that her family experiences, all of their lives change. Whether these changes are beneficial or detrimental is obscured in anyone's eye. Eurella Calloway is a Sovereign Vampire Countess, Governor, and a mother. She is a woman who has lived for a prolonged time and learned to navigate through life deceptively and apathetically. For her, her agency is calibrated with prudence when faced with her knowledge and past that cuts a fated direction for her time and time again. Although, one single thing that she has never had the mercy of experiencing is someone that she can be vulnerable with, and as a result, she has to be someone that she is not. But what happens when she meets someone that she is instantly enraptured by? What happens when she meets that someone who makes her feel like maybe authenticity isn't destructive? Will the possibility that she lets the act wither away transpire? (( This story is a sapphic/lesbian slice of life romance that has 18+ Mature Content! )) (( The tags are listed. )) (( *Heavy editing/re-writing in progress* )) (( A lot of context in this story may not be the same as it was originally written before. ))