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"Don't wanna be a player no more, I think I found someone I can live my life for." DessDiorxDaveEast

Nyla Monroe Brooks was just a girl from Clayton County with a dream and a talent for hair. Nasir Vaughn was Harlem's biggest rap star. Their worlds were never supposed to collide. But when sparks fly between the soft-spoken salon owner and the dangerously protective rapper, love grows faster than either of them expected. Fame. Drama. Jealous enemies. And a baby girl that changes everything. Through it all, one thing becomes clear...

Do you remember who you were, 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞? 'Cause 𝐈 do.

Having known no kindness in her life, fear and abuse were the only things she has ever known. One accidental leek of information and her life will change forever because 3 elder brothers have no intentions of letting go off their little Morales now that they have found her after years of separation. It won't be easy and they know it. But after all, brothers' love knows no bounds and conditions. Number 1 in cuddles 🥇 Number 1 in cuteness 🥇 Number 1 in luxury 🥇 Number 1 in cuteness overload 🥇 Number 1 in hopefulness 🥇 Number 1 in positive 🥇 Number 1 in sister and brother 🥇 Number 1 in food-disorder 🥇 Number 1 in lovable 🥇 Number 2 in abusing 🥈

A reserved soul and an outgoing, adventurous soul strike up a friendship that reveals surprising similarities beneath their contrasting personalities. Together, they uncover the healing power of connection, proving that even the most unlikely friendships can offer the space to breathe. -written by 4thesakeofluv ©️

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Samir Johnson has seen it all, survived it all, and buried more than most men could carry. To the world, he is the polished face of a multimillion-dollar tech company, a quiet, cold-hearted visionary with money, power, and control wrapped neatly in a designer suit. But behind the scenes, Samir is known as Saint, and in the streets he rules alongside his best friend Elijah, better known as Bishop. Calculating, distant, and feared, Samir has built a life that looks solid from the outside while everything beneath it quietly rots. After losing his fiancée and unborn daughter in a tragic car crash, then losing his mother not long after, grief hollowed him out in ways no amount of money and power could fix. Love feels like something he no longer deserves, and with his mind caught in a constant war between living and letting go, Samir has been spiraling for longer than anyone knows. Stationed in Atlanta with his brothers, he makes one final attempt to find peace by turning toward the church, hoping maybe God can reach a place in him nobody else has. Then he meets her, and everything changes. Harmoni Sinclair has always belonged to the church. Raised by a devoted pastor, she grew up with faith woven into her bones and carried that strength with her into adulthood. She remained active in the church as a Sunday school teacher while also building a life as a preschool teacher, believing in kindness, purpose, and the kind of love that feels safe. It was there she met her husband, and what began as something beautiful ended in heartbreak when a robbery gone wrong stole him from her life. Four years later, Harmoni is still carrying grief that never fully loosened its grip, trying every day to find the light at the end of a tunnel that seems to stretch on forever. Then she meets Samir, a man burdened by ghosts, silence, and pain so heavy. What begins as two broken people standing in the wreckage of their separate losses unfolds into something unexpected, healing and beautiful.

"Am I too close?" I whispered, referring to our first conversation. Times were different now, we were different now. I watched as she fluttered her eyes closed, the sound of the music officially become background noise to the tension. It was giving in just as we did. Just as she did. "Maybe I want you to be..." - Blaine's love life is turned upside when she comes across a relentless Delta. Tatted like a notorious gangster, Niy'Asia makes all the effort to show Blaine how much she actually cares, despite constantly having to put her own feelings aside.

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?