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Mess You Made by linaawritess
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Miguel Hernandez has known a few things well: the cushion of an older brother rising to stardom, basketball and sex. His reputation's whispered from the luxury corners of the Upper East Side, spanning over New York City. Debauchery's come to be his middle name. Girls are rarely pictured leaving his side. A comfortable, familiar routine that he doesn't stray from, nor does anyone expect him to. Until her. Eyes that harbour secrets, a tongue sharp enough to cut, passions she's given up and a darkness bearing on her shoulders, Malibu Adams knows nothing but survival. Unapologetic about the trail of messes she leaves behind or the anger festering within her that will only set her on one ruinous path, love had never been on her radar. Nobody knows her enough to understand her nor the pain seeping from wounds she disregards. Until he becomes desperate to. She breaks everything she touches, they say - he isn't afraid to bleed.
𝐏𝐔𝐃𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐒 | ✍︎︎ by qivine
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"𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗽𝘂𝗱𝗱𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂." Chaos may be the only way to describe Clailea Del Rosario's 9 years of life. In a nasty divorce, somehow Clailea's druggie mother won custody over her 3 year old daughter. Clailea doesn't think it's all that bad, she likes books, and Frank Sinatra on her old vinyl player. She also likes the rain. She loves the rain. Now, 6 years later, utterly broken and abused, Clailea is returning home. Much like her silly nickname her brothers had gifted her, her life had seemed to be in puddles. Her 7 brothers. Yep, absolute chaos. ------------ Started: April 16th 2022 Finished: ... -------- 𝐁𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐊𝐒 #𝟏 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬
vehement by islaholland
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Amalia Romano has been putting her heart back together, piece by piece after her high school boyfriend broke it four years ago, when he left the city with his mother and little sister. Amalia thinks she'll never see him again until she does at her friends bachelorette party. Only she wakes up the next day in his bed, but disappears before he wakes up and spends the rest of the day ignoring him before the journey back home. But then things start coming back to her from their drunken night: laughs, jokes. Oh, and their walk down the aisle in a Las Vegas chapel before they were married by an Elvis impersonator. As soon as she realises that she's married to the boy who unknowingly broke her into a thousand pieces when he left, she wants to divorce him. But an opportunity comes up for her to advance her business, however it's a club strictly for married ladies. He agrees, but the real question is: will this fake marriage transform into a real one? COVER CREATED BY @sugarhighstoned
reticent by islaholland
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Amalia Romano is sixteen years old now. Still a dancing prodigy, she lands herself a photoshoot for a magazine that'll help her get to where she wants to be. It seems like everything's going perfectly fine. Her grades are booming, she has a nice circle of friends and her family adore her. She's content, happy and finally safe where she is. Nothing can go wrong. That's what she thinks until Archer King, the typical bad boy, enters her life--brown hair so dark it's almost black, almost always obscured by his motorcycle helmet. Tattoos he's definitely not allowed embedded into his skin, and a careless attitude that clashes with hers. After a messy mix up in school, she decides to ignore him.. until she gets assigned to work with him for a project that'll make up a large chunk of her final grade for the year. Not only does she have to put up with him, but she also has to hide him from her family, since he's the exact type she's always been warned away from. She also has to juggle more than one relationship in her already hectic life. [COVER BY @sugarhighstoned]
silent by islaholland
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Amalia Romano is a selective mute. After years of enduring abuse from her step father, who has ridiculed and hurt her mercilessly, she doesn't want to talk, for fear of what might happen if someone doesn't like what she says. But then her step father--who's care she has been in for two years, ever since her mum died--passes away, and her father, who she was taken away from when she was three, agrees to take her in. But she isn't the smiley little girl she used to be. And the Romano men have secrets of their own, ones they want to keep their twelve year old princess away from. 1M VIEWS: Sunday, 12th March 2023 COVER BY: @sugarhighstoned
growth by islaholland
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• [CAN BE READ ALONE] • • [BOOK 1.5 AND 2.5 IN THE SILENT SERIES] • Read this story for small, enjoyable, funny and adorable moments with the Romano family. Get some insight on Amalia's personal growth, as well as many more memories and scenes with her family and all of their own personal journeys. There are two books in this, the first half is set after Silent and the second half is set after Reticent. [COVER BY @sugarhighstoned]
Autumn Showers by Psandsxx
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Autumn Olivia Martin had everything, she was the captain of the cheerleading squad, people parted the halls like the red sea when they saw her, boys worshiped the ground she walked on. Her outsides beautiful, her insides rotten. After tragedy strikes, she has fallen from grace. Now she is 'forced' to hang out with a group of misfits who couldn't give a fuck about who she is.
Luna by anya_jayvyn
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A bullied girl meets the popular new student. ***** "Still saying that you're perfectly okay?" Max whispers. I'm surprised to hear that his voice is shaking. "I'm going to find who did this to you." ***** One time, I was the most popular girl in school. All the students in Royal Heights, the school of the richest, knew me as the pretty Luna Klein, daughter of a famous superstar and a well-known billionaire. But the next thing I know, I'm an outcast. Just because of a complicated thing called love, everything turns 180 degrees. Now, I'm the girl that everyone hates. I've lost all my friends. I've lost my best friend. And I've lost the guy that I adore. All I can do now is to ignore the bullies and to survive each day quietly, hoping that I don't attract too much attention like before. Everyone in my school starts to call me loony Luna. Or lunatic, their favorite nickname. Then he suddenly arrives. Max Cooper, the new student who just got here from Australia. Insanely good-looking and smart, topped with his impressive family background, Max easily becomes everybody's favorite, especially the girls'. Disastrously, of all the other things he can pick, Max sets his eyes on the most forbidden and despised thing in Royal Heights. Me. Even though the whole school hates that idea. But pushing Max away is like trying to tame a wild lion that has just been released from its cage. Max is unstoppable. My mother once said that if a guy is really into you, he will pursue you no matter what. I think I know now how it feels. I just don't know how to handle my heart. Because every time his piercing eyes land on me, I feel like my heart is going to burst out of my chest. ***** THE KLEINS SERIES BOOK #2 © 2021 Anya Jayvyn. All Rights Reserved.
Love Me (very slow updates) by BRUHIMHER
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Clara De Luca is the sweetest girl you will ever meet. kind, smart, caring and beautiful she is the De Luca family's pride and joy. but what happens when this pride and joy is stripped away from them only to be returned 10 years later? Clara is not the same little girl they knew. And her brothers aren't the same people they once were. But underneath it all lays a broken family that yearns for the love they once knew. The love a certain little girl seems to have brought back into the home. ‼️TW‼️ Sexual abuse abuse self harm mentions of addiction mentions of suicide torture murder if you're not comfortable with any of these subjects look after yourself and I'm sure I'll see you in another book :)
The Brio's Lost Mafia Princess by Theunknownwriting
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Alexandria Brio is a 16-year-old girl who knows pain like the back of her hand. After getting kidnapped at the young age of two she has known nothing but pain, abuse, torture, suffering, and immense trauma. She has spent her whole life protecting her two younger brothers from their abusive parents and their friends. Her life forever changes when her step father supposedly dies in a car accident and their mom has diapered. She finds out that her whole life has been a lie. She has a whole family who has been searching for her. Loving parents and seven older brothers including a twin. What happens when she finds out that the people she grew up with weren't her parents and that the two boys who she thought were her brothers are actually her cousins? All while the man who is the reason for her sleepless nights and who made her life a living hell is relentlessly searching for her. The man who thrives on her pain, the one who knows about every scar on her body because he gave them to her, the man who promised to always find her and would do whatever it took to get her back in his evil grasp. Will she be able to be happy? Will she trust her family and tell them the hell she went through and is still going through? Can her family protect her? Will she find friends and love along the way? Will she have her happy ending? ‼️Read The Trigger Warning‼️ Story ranking #1 Trauma (5/3/24) #3 Violence (10/17/24) #3 Greek (10/17/24) #2 Trauma (11/19/24) #1 Trauma (12/10/24) #1 Trauma (1/28-31/25)