𝐀 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝'𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 Book Two in The Bittersweet Series. Created: 04/01/20 Published: 05/01/20 Completed: 14/11/20 Rewriting: start 26/01/23

Serenity Davidson has no time for strays. She's too busy running Greensboro's best soul food catering business and keeping her mama happy. But when they find a starving, half-dead man collapsed on their front porch, Serenity does what she does best: she feeds him. He says his name is Kevin. He says he's an unemployed factory worker with "bad asthma." He is lying. He is Lorenzo Moretti, the ruthless Don of the Sicilian Mafia, battered and hiding in plain sight. He intended to heal, exact his revenge, and disappear. But after weeks of Serenity's pot roast, her warm bed, and her bossy attitude, Lorenzo realizes he has a new addiction. He's not just going to take back his empire. He's taking the cook with him.

A story about the kind of love that leaves bruises. Some you see. Some you don't. In the city of angels, Ella Steele thought she understood love - until Leo Carmichael. Their relationship was electric, magnetic... and volatile. One moment, he's the boy who sees every part of her. The next, he's the storm that tears her apart. Told across timelines and unraveling secrets, Before Love Came to Kill Us follows Ella and Leo as they chase, lose, and haunt each other - all while trying to survive the version of themselves love almost destroyed. This is not a love story. This is what happens after. *Note: This story was originally published as a fanfic under my older account mxsfxtstyles but has since been taken down and reconstructed. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - ©-VVENDETTA 2021-2025 Unauthorized copying, manipulating, selling, stealing and/or printing is prohibited. Any form of copyright is punishable by law.

𝗥𝗛𝗘𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗥𝗘 was raised to be a shadow. Sit straight, smile when you're spoken to, don't make people repeat themselves and don't you dare draw attention and learn to be grateful they let the deaf daughter stay in the room at all. In Northvalle, perfection is currency. Her sister, Alina, is priceless. Rhea is the problem they keep just out of frame.. .. She's had her eyes on 𝗘𝗭𝗥𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗢𝗩 longer than she'll ever admit. The city's quiet threat. Fixer, the man you call when you're out of options and ready to sell whatever's left of your soul. He doesn't play about what's tied to his name. He doesn't repeat himself and when you keep him waiting too long, he collects more than debt. He's invited into the Lore empire for one reason.. Alina. A marriage on paper. An alliance at the table. Lore influence for Markov protection. Breaking that kind of deal would cost more than money and everyone at that table knows it. Ezra knows what's at stake. But the wrong girl keeps catching his eye... the daughter who was never part of the offer, the one who moves like she's been taught her whole life not to be seen. He should keep his distance. Instead, he starts to toy with the line.. a glance held too long, a touch he has no business giving, secrets in dark corners that would ruin her if anyone ever found out. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧. 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙗𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙩 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⋆ 𐙚 ̊. "We shouldn't be doing this..." "Then stop trembling every time I breathe your name, Malyshka." ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⋆ 𐙚 ̊. • 𝘼 𝘿𝘼𝙍𝙆 𝙈𝘼𝙁𝙄𝘼 𝙍𝙊𝙈𝘼𝙉𝘾𝙀 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Mature| 18+ Copyright ©️𝗐𝗋𝗍𝖾𝗇𝗂𝗆 2025 All rights reserved.

He regarded her for a second, fathomless blue-green eyes cold. Then, a devilish grin came upon his face as his British accent rang through the room; "How ever do you expect me to forget fucking you 𝑟𝑎𝑤, love? Taking you on the couch, against the wall, on the bed, in the shower. Bottoming out in your delicious cunt over and over, until the only word you could utter, you could 𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚 was my name?" Because you are my professor. Because that was wrong. Because you are dating a supermodel. Because you are over 10 years older than me. Then, why do I still want him to remember and repeat it? ✿❁✿❁✿❁ SINFUL PASSIONS: INNOCENCE MEETS DARKNESS. ⇲ CHIARA JAHZARA NOOR is the definition of a good girl. No parties, no vices, all good grades, all innocence. To celebrate her 19th birthday, she decides to let loose and indulge. In the sexy, dark, older, British stranger at the bar who provides her with the best night of her existence. Who also turns out to be her professor. She should forget Nico, but something about his ability to both enthrall and ruin her has her craving his touch. ⇱ NICOLAS SEBASTIAN HENDRIX is chaotic, breathtakingly pure destruction and most definitely in a relationship. But, when he meets this incredibly innocent girl at the bar, his intrigue and piqued interest lead to a night of fiery passion. With his 19-year-old, Dean's List student. He should forget Zara, but something about her innocence, her ability to see the good within him, has him craving her light. BOOK 2 OF THE DARK SINNERS SERIES | COPYRIGHT © MARIEDILLBOOKS

𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐍𝐓: A determined model who has lost her way in the world makes her way back home as she receives devastating news. Deciding that this town was just the direction she needed, she extends her stay home indefinitely and makes her way around her set new life. /solivagant/ (adj.) wandering alone

Luca Moretti was supposed to be a legend - until a career-ending injury turned the league's most feared forward into its coldest coach. Discipline is all he has left, and he wields it like a weapon. The players respect him. The press fears him. And behind closed doors, control isn't just his reputation - it's his release. Isola Ren never planned to come back to the sport that destroyed her family. But when she's hired as the team's new physical therapist, she finds herself face-to-face with the man whose name once filled her brother's stories. Luca Moretti. Arrogant. Commanding. Off-limits. Their first clash sparks more than anger. His warning is low and dangerous: "Careful, little girl. I break the ones who talk back." She should walk away. She doesn't. In a world where pain and passion skate the same thin ice, control becomes the most dangerous game of all. And when secrets from the past resurface, both will have to decide what they're willing to risk - for forgiveness, for obsession, and for something that feels a lot like love. A dark, age-gap hockey romance full of tension, obsession, and the kind of heat that burns slow and deep.

(Completed) Mature content warning ------------------------------------------ "Take off your clothes." "W-what?" I pry my eyes away from his lips to meet his bright blue ones. "I am going to strip down to my boxers. By the time that happens if you are still wearing any clothes I will rip them to shreds, do you understand?" --------------------------- Jeremy and Samantha always seem to find themselves themselves slipping away from each other so very often. As faith would have it they always find there way back to each other no matter what. #19 in bwwm 07/30/21 🥺🥺 #32 in black woman 💛 #2 in white 08/20/21 😳 #1 in situations 11/26/21 #1 in Toxic 1/27/22 #1 in Mess 11/19/22

Violet was settled in her life. She had a rewarding career, beautiful home, and the perfect life. She was childless and had no thought of a man. That was just the way she liked it. Until, he came along... Marco was a biker who never knew life without his club. He was content with leading his club and living the remainder of his life as a bachelor. Women were nothing more than a good time, just not for a long one. Until, she came along... Rankings! #1 bwwm #1 blackwoman #1 blackandwhite #4 love #1 interracial #1 wmbw #1 motorcycle

(slow updates, sorry!) At the age of sixteen, Ace Valentino was given the heir of the Valentino Cooperation and the American Mafia. Doing his job perfectly fine since he had first gotten that position in the working field, what happens when his past catches up to him? Or mostly, when she steps in his path. [previously knows as 'just how you like it'] [estimated word count: 250,000 - 300,000]