❝𝐈𝐓𝐒 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐔𝐒 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃.❞

𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘐'𝘮 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘥. ────୨ৎ──── Pressed slacks, refined cologne, dark bourbon, sleeves rolled up just enough to show forearms. Malikai Blackbourne was all of these things. Cold like ice, professional like black coffee. Everyone at Velgrave Academy knew him. Handsome like your darkest temptations, off limits like your guiltiest pleasures. Untouched. Untamed. Unattainable. He lived in solitude, interested only in what he could read, study, and analyze. He built his mind brick by brick. No father's alumnus foundation. No generational wealth. Just silence and strategy. A genius whispered through the halls and known in his field. Dariana Stratford. The professor's daughter. The ballerina. The forbidden girl draped in velvet and disdain. Assumed snobby, really lonely and bored. After her mother kicked her out due to her rebellious nature and sent her to live with her father, he asks Malikai to manage her transition back into discipline. He accepts. She was bratty and beautiful, everything his mind warned him about. Frivolous. Distracting. Ruinous. He tells himself she's just another student, yet every time she walks in, he loses his thoughts. Every challenge wakes something in him. Dariana is fire. Malikai is ice. She's not an escape. She's a confrontation. And it only gets worse when she moves into the guest house he's staying in, as if his life hasn't already begun revolving around chaos wrapped in pretty pink silk.

Celeste started her sophomore year determined to stay focused on school, not love. But when a string of unexpected moments draws her closer to Kairo-confident, magnetic, and full of hidden depth-friendship turns into something neither of them saw coming. In the chaos of college life, they discover that sometimes the greatest lessons aren't found in basketball or fashion magazines, but in each other.

"𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭." 𝘏𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦. "𝘐 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘦. 𝘈𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭." 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘣𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦.

" 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞..."

Murda got ops in every direction, and Taya gotta adjust to loving a man who might not come home one night. The streets talk fast. One day you're in love, next day you trending for all the wrong reasons.

What happens when you fall for your brother's best friend? The story of Serenity & Jabari.

"Threw away your love letters, I thought it'd made me feel better..."

Devyn Steele is a 22 year old Orthopedic Surgical Resident at UCSF Sports Medicine Center. She mainly operates on professional athletes. Between studying to become an Attending Surgeon and taking care of her little brother Kai, she doesn't have much of a social life. Her life is pretty much a constant cycle consisting of working, sleeping, eating, and taking on that role of a mother. But what happens when she meets a certain Warrior? Will he turn her life around and show her a new outlook on life? Will she let him? Read more to find out... Started: 1 July 2022 Finished: 5 September 2022

"you say you lovesick girl I got da remedy." 𝐉𝐀𝐍𝐔𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒..