Vulnerability isn't her strong suit. Healing isn't linear. And the hardest part of starting over isn't letting someone new in. It's finally letting herself out.

𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐄𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒂 𝒙 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒌𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒅𝒐 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐱 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 🥇

𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐 𝒙 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂 When the ruthless CEO she spilled coffee on becomes her boss, Malia knows she should quit. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐂𝐄𝐎. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐬𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐍𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐬𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞. 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐨.

❝𝐓𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨❞ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲, 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐬. "𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐰," 𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬, 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞. "𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞." 𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡... 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑟. Elena Reyes came to Canada with nothing but scars and silence. By day, she serves coffee with a practiced smile. By night, she apprentices at Moreno Tattoos, turning pain into art with trembling hands and a heart that refuses to trust. Zane Moreno is the owner, cold, covered in ink, and haunted by demons he'll never name. He doesn't do gentle. He doesn't do love. But when Elena walks into his shop, something in him cracks. Now he watches her too closely, touches her too carefully, and swears he'll burn the world before he lets anyone hurt her again. 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭

He was supposed to be off-limits. She was never supposed to be his. In a world of wealth, power, and dangerous lies, falling for the wrong person might be the most dangerous thing of all. Mon Cheri - Book 1 of The Endearment Series.

𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝'𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐲 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤, 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞'𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. ┏━━━━━❁༺━━━━━┓ 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲 🥇 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 🥇 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐥

𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝑯𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒎, 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒎. "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒔𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒚," 𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒖𝒓𝒎𝒖𝒓𝒔. "𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍, 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒌𝒐... 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚." 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔, 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔. "𝑺𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏," 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔, 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔. "𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒌𝒐," 𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒍𝒚, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐚🥇

𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 "𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔, 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔" 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒕 "𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒚" "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑰 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔" 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 🥇 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐟𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞🥇 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐧 #𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐱𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫🥉

𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞 "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆" 𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔. "𝑫𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕" "𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒏𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚'𝒔" 𝑰 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆, 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒚. "𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒚" 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞🥇 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭🥇 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 🥇 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚 🥇 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 #𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 🥇 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 #𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 🥈 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐧 #𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞🥉

Olandria likes what she has with Taylor, but she feels like she's missing something. Maybe Nic can help her figure it out. (Nicolandria fanfic bc I am a writer with freewill. Also available on ao3 :p)