Adeline LaGrange. Thalia Maral. The two clash the moment they meet. Faith vs science, warmth and ice. But the more their worlds collide, the more something quiet and dangerous begins to bloom between them. As secrets inside the church unravel, Adeline is forced to question everything she was raised to believe. She must choose between the faith that shaped her and the woman who is slowly undoing her heart. Some desires don't feel like sin at all instead they feel like salvation.

When Evelyn begins her senior year, the last person she expects to see in her classroom is the mysterious woman she met while working at the diner. Ms. Hartley quickly realizes there's more to Evelyn's life than she lets on, and what begins as concern slowly turns into a bond neither of them expected. But some connections come with consequences-especially when they cross a line that should never be crossed.

| teacher x student | wxw | slow burn | When 19-year-old Lena James enters English Literature class, she expects nothing special. Instead, she meets Ms. Sinclair her cold, sharp-tongued British literature teacher. Elegant, cutting, and unbearably superior. From the very first lesson, the 34-year-old woman seems to take pleasure in dismantling Lena's every opinion with cruel precision. Lena hates her. She hates the condescending red marks on her essays, the raised eyebrow that makes her feel small, and the way Ms. Sinclair lingers in her thoughts long after class ends. But hate this intense has a way of twisting into something far more dangerous. With a strict 15-year age gap and an unbreakable teacher-student boundary, their slow-burning tension threatens to break every rule both in literature and in real life. Some lessons aren't taught kindly. And some hatreds taste too much like desire. "Ms. Sinclair's Secret"

SLOWBURN • PROFESSORXSTUDENT • WRITTEN IN TAGLISH

Genre: Mafia Romance, LGBTQ+ (WLW), Drama Themes: Fate vs choice, power imbalance, forbidden love, identity, betrayal, found family, obsession, survival An orphaned girl, newly expelled from the orphanage at eighteen, is hit by a car owned by a dying billionaire. Out of guilt-or fate-the old man saves her life and takes her into his mansion as a helper. As death approaches, he forces her into a marriage meant to secure his empire. She agrees... only to discover she is marrying a woman-cold, powerful, and far richer than the old man himself. What begins as a contract marriage becomes a slow-burn obsession neither of them dares to name. Then the past returns. Her biological parents-wealthy and ruthless-find her and demand she honor a marriage arranged at her birth. A jealous stepsister, obsessed with the man meant to marry her, decides the orphan girl should never have been found at all. Love becomes dangerous. And survival comes at a cost.

"Marry my daughter or I will kill you." pagbabanta ng matipunong lalaki na may hawak na baril habang nakatutok sa makinis kong noo. Napapitlag ako sa takot at kaba na pakiramdam ko nasa isang paglilitis ako at inuumpisahang isalang na para bang maling sagot lang ay katapusan ko na. Napatingin ako sa aking Boss na wala man lang kabuhay-buhay ang kaniyang mukha at para bang bagot na bagot ito sa kanyang buhay. Isa lamang akong hamak na bagong secretary wala pa nga akong isang buwan sa company niya pero heto ---- na rape na ako, nakuha na nito ang katawan ko pero mukhang ako pa ang talo at nag agrabyado. Bakit kasi nagpakalasing itong magandang boss ko na lahing tigre at hindi sa tiyan niya nilagay ang alak kundi sa ulo? "Babae, sumagot ka paninindigan mo va ang anak ko o ngayon pa lang magpahanda na ako ng libingan mo.?" pagkara'ay tanong niya na tila nadagdagan ang inis sa mukha nito. Alam ko na kung saan nagmana ang boss kong tigre. "Oo na po, paninindigan ko si Tigre este ang anak niyo." I can't imagine how it's goin' to be after. Bakit kasi nagpadala ako sa monay niya - Arabelle

"I will do everything in my power to get you. I will make you fall for me. You'll gonna fall for me." Date started: March 18, 2022 Date finished: May 10, 2022 NOT EDITED - WRITTEN IN TAGLISH

Hakdog Date started: 06.30.22 Date ended: 10.10.22 Status: COMPLETED

~ COMPLETED ~ Side Story 5 of Sweet Surrender 🦋 Republished date: August 2023 ALL RIGHT RESERVED 2023

"I'll make you scream in pleasure until you realize that I am way more better than him. I will take you on my bed and I would definitely punish you for making me lose my damn mind. . . I miss your touch, babe. I miss your hands roaming around my body."