Hayley has been planning to leave her abusive boyfriend. But gets a little help when her childhood best friend comes back into the picture. She insists on sharing her apartment with him until he settles in the city. Will she be able to just stay friends from this grown up, attractive version of the boy she used to know?

𝐕𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐇𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐀 - Intricate and witty, her life has twisted upside down after her father's past scarred his family. At the young age of twenty, Violet is informed that eight years ago, she was promised to marry a Mafia Don's son by her father, in exchange for ten million dollars. 𝐃𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐂 𝐃 '𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐎 - A name that lingers of blood and lust, was also a ruthless killer and the new Don of the Italian Mafia. In order to have no distractions, his father has forced him to marry the daughter of a millionaire law firm owner. What happens when two fiery personalities collide? Will they be able to avoid the instant attraction that they feel? Or will they give into each other? Breaking the one and only rule of the marriage that they both so desperately despised; no sexual interactions. ______ #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 #𝟎𝟏 - 𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 ______ 𝐃𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 - to all of those who long to be someone's first choice, this one's for you.

"ᴛᴀᴋᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘʀᴏꜰᴇꜱꜱᴏʀ'ꜱ ᴄᴏᴄᴋ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ɢɪʀʟ, ʜᴍ," "ꜱᴏ ᴡᴇᴛ, ꜱᴏ ꜱᴡᴇᴇᴛ, ꜱᴏ ꜰᴏʀʙɪᴅᴅᴇɴ" *** 𝓔𝓵𝓵𝓪 𝓡𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓰𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓻𝔂, A twenty year old woman finishing out her last few months left in college, studying business. Kind, giving, sweet, and innocent are all words you can use to describe Ella Montgomery. Underneath the reserved girl lies more than what meets the eye, catching the eye of her new professor. 𝓐𝓻𝓽𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓼 𝓔𝓵𝓲𝓸 𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓸, A thirty-two year old Italian professor teaching business who moves to the states miles away from Italy, his home to a rainy destination in hopes to hide from the dark secrets he keeps buried down to give his six year old daughter, Athena, a better and safer life. His built up walls come crashing down the moment he meets the beautiful doe brown eyed girl who happens to be his student, he saw something in her behind the kind smiles - something that intrigued him to know her more.

Perfect appearances, perfect grades, perfect manners. Anything less for Adelina Torres and her family kicks her to the streets until she can keep up with the family name. She never had a life of her own. Always studying, always going to business dinners with her parents, always seen as a failure to her family. Despite her bubbly personality, she has always struggled to make friends. What happens when she meets Aaron Hendrix, the leader of the most powerful mafia in the country? A moment to thank you beautiful readers for giving me these rankings among thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions of other stories with similar tags :) #1 in mafia #1 in protective #1 in abused #1 in sunshine #1 in grumpy #2 in innocent #2 in cold #2 in goodgirl #3 in cute #9 in badboy #42 in family #54 in love