𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡. 𝐇𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭. Her clothes cling too tight and her attitude runs too sharp. She laughs too loud, wears too much yellow, carries far too much confidence for someone they think should take up less space. What most never notice is that it's all deliberate. A bright, blinding performance. A kind of noise meant to keep the world from hearing the quiet way her heart is breaking.

He looks like he might close the space between us. He looks like he wants to. My brain supplies a dozen sane exits. My body refuses every one. He looks as if he might kiss me. So I do something- exactly the kind of crazy I'm proud of but later I regret. I bite him right on the shoulder. He's in a tank, and my teeth definitely sink in. "What the hell?" he jerks back with a sharp laugh, stumbling slightly. "Did you just bite me?" "I panicked!" I defend, a little too quickly. "You don't have to mark me when I'm already yours, Swan." he says. Excuse me? "What!?" I blink, nearly tripping over my own foot. "What did you just say?" He shrugs, all cool and composed, "I'm already yours." he repeats, like it's nothing. Like it's not the verbal equivalent of a punch to the stomach and a kiss to the soul. My jaw drops. "Are you- are you okay?" "Perfectly," he says, then taps his shoulder. "Just sore though." ✧𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.✧ ✩Amara Fontaine, a 24 year old ballerina. She was light, grace, and everything golden. A ballerina with a heart too kind for the cruel world. But even the brightest stars can be swallowed by the dark. 🜲Xavier Hayes, a 27 year old boxer. He was ruthless, untouchable, and everything dark. A man who never let anyone close-until her. But love makes even the strongest men bleed. Tropes- Boxer X Ballerina Enemies to Lovers Touch her and 🔪 He fell first and she fell harder Possessive and Obsessed MCs Nicknames and Banter Betrayal and Revenge [THIS IS A CLOSED DOOR ROMANCE!]

The Mafia Heirs #3 Athena was many things; gorgeous, a killer, an assassin, a psychopath but above all, a Romano. And that was her biggest secret. Nobody knew that except her brother, Alessio Romano who also happened to be the Russian Mafia Leader. Sean Blackwood had reached his breaking point. He lost his entire family to the mafia, he has learnt that there was no happiness when you're in that business let alone leading it. He was known to be cold, a ruthless killer who hated wasting his time giving his enemies a painful death, so he would kill them instantly without blinking or thinking twice. What happens when they cross paths? ━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━ BOOK 1 : Her Revenge [completed] BOOK 2 : Her Hatred [completed] BOOK 3 : Her Secret [completed] BOOK 4 : His Identity [on-going] ━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━ can be read as a standalone. ━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━ IG : actb4thinking ━━━━━━━༺༻━━━━━━━ #1 in mafia on 20/02/23 #1 in torture on 20/02/23

The Mafia Heirs #2 Alessio Romano's life has never been easy. He changed from the world's best hitman to a powerful and feared mafia leader. Thea Gonzalez lost her parents when she was five. She was adopted by the Mexican mafia leader who turned her life into a living hell. Thea was hell bent on finding the Infamous hitman who killed her father. However, when she finally finds him she began questioning everything. She finds out who she really was and that her whole life has been a lie. And she finds it hard to resist who-they-named, the psychotic mafia boss. •─────✧─────• This book can be read as a stand-alone. You don't need to read the first book 'Her Revenge' to read this one. Hope you enjoy! •─────✧─────• 11/17/21 : #16 in boss 11/24/21 : #2 in kill 12/18/21 : #1 in Fight •─────✧─────• BOOK 1 - Her Revenge. BOOK 2 - Her Hatred BOOK 3 - Her Secrets •─────✧─────• IG and other social media : actb4thinking

She takes care of everyone. He just wants to take care of her. Evangeline vowed to always make sure her brothers were taken care of after the death of their parents. Even if it meant taking up every job in town or in the city, she would always be sure they weren't without. Growing accustomed to doing so, it became all that she knew, taking care of the people she's learned to love, not really having time for herself. When her friends and brother convince her to break routine, Evangeline runs into wealthy, college playboy Tristan Fuller, who has all the time in the world for himself. With one bad first impression follows multiple meetings by chance making it almost inevitable that the two grow infatuated with one another.

The Costantino Sequel - Featuring Costa, Millie, the twins, and all the Accardi madness readers know and love, ROCCO is a slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers descent into obsession, loyalty, and fire. The Accardi family is back. And this time, it's Rocco's turn. At 30 years old, Rocco Accardi is known for a lot of things-his temper, his recklessness, his complete disregard for consequences. As the future underboss of Sicily's most feared family, he was never meant to feel anything. Until her. Alessia Russo, 26, Palermo's top real estate agent, has spent the past three years keeping things strictly professional. Which is hard to do when your most dangerous client spends every meeting flirting like it's a sport-and you've had a crush on him since day one. He's chaos. She's control. Their relationship was never meant to cross the line. But one wrong step-and everything spirals. Rocco doesn't know how to love. But he knows how to destroy. And once he decides she's his, he'll burn the city before he lets her go. Something is coming. And nothing will be the same after it hits.

The Criminal and His Runaway ❦ an enemies to lovers slowburn. . . . Helena left a world of polished lies, thinking freedom would be gentle. It wasn't. It looked like Elias Ashford. He hates her. She hates him. But nothing fuels chemistry like shared walls, sharp words- and the slow, dangerous shift from enemies to something much worse. . . . Not a single dull chapter ;) Warning: Suggestive content Slowburn Morally grey male lead You've been warned. Happy Reading!

Highest rank #1 in ChickLit ● ● ● ● ● ● She wanted a job. She was offered a fortune. Eva Chambers expected rejection. She didn't expect five million dollars and a contract that would change the shape of her life. Frederick Halter is power in human form. Calm. Precise. Unreachable. And he wants one thing from her: A child. No promises. No romance. Only an agreement that could give her everything she's ever needed... and cost her everything she never knew she wanted. Because if the baby is hers too, then this isn't just business. It's sacrifice. In a world ruled by money and silence, Eva must decide what freedom truly means. And how much of herself she is willing to give to obtain it.

Aaliyah never planned on catching the eye of Leo Ramirez. A quiet, brooding basketball player who looks at her like she's trouble & like he'd burn the whole world for her.