Love lingers like ink pressed deep into skin, a mark you can't wash away, an echo that hums beneath every breath. When rain brings Milo into Sakani's shop one night, two worlds collide: the stillness of someone who's learned to guard his heart, and the restless fire of someone desperate to be truly seen. ENJOY!!

They didn't end up in the same space on purpose. Brooklynn is the quiet type. Not shy... just tired. Tired in the "life been heavy for a while now" way. He minds his business, goes to work, comes home, and keeps his world small because that's how he breathes. Azyir is the opposite. Loud, funny, always in motion. ADHD running the wheel every day. Talks so much he forgets to say what he really means. Laughs loud so nobody asks if he's okay. They sit in the same trig class at their HBCU, but they don't talk. They don't dislike each other either. They just... live in two different worlds. Messiah Markell is their professor. Older, calm, strict in the quiet way that makes people sit up straighter. He owns a club downtown called Desirable, but in class he keeps everything controlled. He doesn't like watching people drown in silence or noise. He sees them both slipping. Not failing. Slipping. So he tells them to stay after class. Every day. Not for tutoring. Not for discipline. Just to sit, breathe, work, or not work. A room where nobody has to force themselves to be "okay." And somehow, without anybody planning it... The quiet one. The loud one. And the man who teaches them how to stay. Start learning how to need each other. Not in a fast way. Not in a dramatic way. In the way real connections happen: Slow glances. Shared exhaustion. Walking home together because home doesn't feel safe tonight. Sitting in silence that doesn't hurt. Being seen without having to explain. This is a story about: Black boy rest. Soft dominance. Messy feelings. Learning how to stay present. No fake deep. No forced love. Just real people figuring out how to breathe.

Kyari is a straight , 20 year old male. He still lives at home with his verbally abusive, alcoholic father that he tries to just ignore. Since he lost his mother he went from the loud, fun, lit friend to the quiet, laid back, more in his shell friend. He went from dating and being a ladies man to really only being around his friend group. Hes about to turn 21 and his friends are tired of him being a shell of himself. Cairo is a straight, 24 year old gang leader. He's finally made it to the top, but he's had a lonely life making getting to the top his priority. After his last breakup, he was left with trust issues and a fucked up heart only adding to his tough demeanor and his attitude problems. His circle is air sealed tight. Cairos best friend since diapers is opening his first club. What happens when Kyari's friends don't listen and plan a celebration anyway at the newest spot in town and the two cross paths.. yet again? Will opinions weigh too heavy? ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ It's about to get crazy. Let's Read 🍄

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Cause you give me something familiar 🖤 • "Look, I ain't mean to wake you up. I was just getting my shit and leaving," he said, quickly reaching down to grab his shirt from off of the ground near a fallen lamp. I guess that was what caused the crash earlier. "We don't even have to talk about it, for real," he rushed out. "So, you was just gon' fuck and dip?" My words stopped him in his tracks. "Without sayin' nothin'?" I was lowkey hurt at the realization that he was tryna sneak out of my spot after what we did. "Kofi...we fucked," he whispered the last part guiltily, as if he was afraid to say it out loud. "You're straight. I-" "Obviously, not anymore...after the way I had you screaming last night." . *Spin-off from Waves

Luca Valmont has it all: the name, the money, the power, and a reputation for being an untouchable playboy. Groomed to inherit the Valmont empire, he lives with the pressure of legacy on his shoulders- and a hollow sense of superiority in his chest. Charismatic but cold, Luca treats omegas like disposable toys, refusing to acknowledge the girl he got pregnant, let alone the child that came from it. Emotions are weakness. Attachment is dangerous. Love? Out of the question. But when a new teacher arrives at his elite business school, everything changes. Andre Alexandre is carefree, grounded, and maddeningly patient- everything Luca isn't. He's also Luca's best friend... and the one person whose presence makes Luca's carefully controlled world unravel. Suddenly, Luca's body starts betraying him in terrifying ways. He ignores it, buries it, outruns it-until one night at a party, it all comes crashing down. He goes into heat. Andre is the only one there. The only one who can help. Luca wakes up pregnant. Furious. Confused. Abandoned-when Andre disappears without a trace. Desperate to escape the shame and scrutiny, Luca fakes his and his brother's deaths with the help of their mafia-connected mother and flees to a remote countryside. The plan is simple: hide away, give birth, give the child up, then return to the city with a fabricated story and no strings attached. But the quiet life doesn't stay quiet for long. As the pregnancy progresses and the baby grows, so does something else- something Luca has tired to deny since this whole thing went down. What if he wants the baby?

Amos thrives on routine and quiet, so being forced to temporarily move in with his brother Jayvion and Jayvion's girlfriend, Kiree, pushes him far outside his comfort zone. Adjusting to a shared space and new dynamics isn't easy for him. Things become even more complicated when Kiree invites her foster brother Kyson to stay. Fresh out of prison and carrying his own baggage, Kyson is someone Amos never expected to connect with. Yet an instant bond forms, and Kyson quickly becomes a source of comfort and understanding. As their connection grows, Amos knows there are things he isn't ready to share. Keeping parts of himself private feels safer, but living under the same roof makes distance hard to maintain when emotions begin to surface.

Six kids in one house, and somehow he still felt invisible. Taye was always working, always stressed, always trying to hold everything together but never really seeing him. The others were the same. Busy. Distant. Like surviving mattered more than anything else. And maybe it did. But that didn't stop it from messing him up. So he learned quick don't ask for anything, don't expect nothing, and don't let nobody get close enough to leave. That's just how he became Kairo. Rude. Distant. Unbothered. Or at least...that's what everybody thought. Now suddenly, things were different. Taye checking on him. Asking questions. Looking at him like he actually mattered. It didn't sit right. "Where was all that before?" Kairo muttered one night, staring up at the ceiling, phone in his hand but not really looking at it. Because care-real care-was something he didn't know how to trust. And that wasn't even the worst part. The worst part...was him. Kairos best friend. The one person who always stayed. Always showed up. Always saw him even when Kairo tried his hardest to push him away. That was the problem. Because Kairo wasn't supposed to feel like this. Not about him.

An OCD detective meets an unhinged crime lord who has evidence of the one secret that could ruin his life. Kade spent six months investigating the most dangerous criminal in Ashmoor city. Hunter spent sixty seconds pulling him apart. And now he won't let him go. Blackmail. Control. Obsession. Kade should fight. He should run. He should kill him. The closer Kade gets, the more dangerous it becomes to want him- -Because the one man he's supposed to take down... ...might be the one he can't resist. Two dominant men. Possessive obsession. Power vs power. No one submits without a cost. If it feels wrong, you are in the right place. You'll want to see how far this goes. **No non-consensual, no cheating plot, HE. Follow and Stayed Tuned for the rest of The Black Empire Series.

I told you to distract my father, not kiss him dude... He is not gay!! It's not my fault, It's the damn saree that's making me all Girly!! Then take it off!! I don't know bro..... I kinda look cute in it..😏😏 Dipen an orphaned studying MBA with his best friend - Sachin. One day Sachin came up to Dipen with an Odd request, distracting his estranged father Mr l. Sudhir for a few hours so Sachin can finally spend some time with his Girlfriend Nidhi. But dipen went overboard dressing up as dipali and seducing Mr. sudhir. Now how will Dipen manage his love life and promise to his friend. Will Sachin accept his best friend, a man as his mother?