He was never supposed to stay. Simon Riley was the kind of man people avoided in hallways-quiet, distant, always leaving before anyone could truly know him. The kind of neighbor Freya didn't expect to learn the sound of, or the rhythm of his life through a shared wall. And yet... somehow, she did. He didn't talk much. He didn't need to. She learned him in pieces instead-through repairs he didn't have to do, through the way he lingered a little longer each time he knocked, through the quiet ways he kept showing up when he didn't have a reason to. Simon didn't belong to softness. But he kept coming back to hers. A slowburn neighbor AU featuring Simon "Ghost" Riley, where domestic quiet turns into obsession, protection, and consequences neither of them are ready for.

Simon Riley is dedicated to keeping his neighbour, Dina, out of precarious situations - mostly wobbly ladders and flat tires - so when she's unintentionally dragged into his work, he had one priority: get her out alive. ⁂ This is a short story about Simon Riley x his civilian neighbour. - Flirty, not smutty - Simon is overprotective - 6/10 on violence scale (just a little roughhousing, you know?) - Car chases, guns, and (ofc) a kidnapping ⁂ Simon Riley was a pretty unassuming neighbor-Dina thought so at least. Although, she hadn't expected him when she moved in three years ago... She hadn't expected Simon because why would she expect some beefed-up military guy to be her new neighbor? She assumed military lived on base in barracks, but apparently not. Apparently, they also lived the mundane outer-city life, dragging the garbage out on Thursdays and carrying bags of shopping in on Sundays. Of her neighbors, Simon was the only one she'd become friendly with, and by friendly, it meant they developed a symbiotic relationship where they would watch out for each other... Although they weren't what would typically be considered friends, they had a certain trust in each other. Or rather, Dina trusted him. Simon felt a different way about the situation. Simon saw a thousand ways that Dina could get hurt.

𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 ..... After Matteo Verrati kidnaps Aurora Moretto to save her life, they both agree that it would be safer for her to stay with him because of the threats to her life. Aurora didn't expect to find solace in him, Aurora didn't expect to fall for him and she surely didn't expect to go insane.

Athalia Parker Quinn is a soft-hearted, bubbly 19 year old with an unsafe life. Levi Kingston is a grumpy, tattooed 22 year old with a hand to help.

So naive. A year of living in the city and you've already become accustomed to every crack in the sidewalk. One year in the city and you believed that you knew it by heart. One year in the city, and you no longer looked over your shoulder during your late-night return from work at the local hospital, keys between your fingers, as if scared that any dark alleyway might hide a perpetrator. One year, and you felt safe. You don't waste time looking over your shoulder anymore. You don't worry that someone will run up the front steps and grab you while you're defenseless. Maybe you should be.

He'd bring you coffee in the mornings before meetings. He knew how you liked it. You never questioned how - he just seemed to know everything about you. What you liked, what you didn't. Your strong suits and your weak spots. Where you were and where you were supposed to be. And you didn't seem to know anything about him, not even what he looked like beneath that mask. Except the fact that your stomach burned with heat whenever he put his hands on you.

After graduating college, Austin Curtis returns home without really knowing what to expect. Time has helped her mature, but through the years she spent away from Tulsa, there was a nagging in her mind about how she left everyone...more specifically, how she left Dallas. Enjoy the return of fan-favorite characters as they navigate life as young adults, through a series of struggles in this three-part sequel to "As I See It, Yes". An Outsiders (Dallas Winston) fanfiction.

The resilience of the human body and mind had always amazed you. The fragility of the human body and mind had always terrified you. Bones is a quiet combat medic with a troubled past and enough knowledge to fill a library. As whispers of a new bioweapon begin to spread across Europe, she is assigned to Task Force 141. Still haunted from her previous deployment, she thinks she can only count on witnessing new horrors, spilled blood, and the sound of dogtags clinking against the ground. What she isn't expecting is finding a team to count on, or the way her heart quickens in the presence of a certain skull-faced man. **Cross-Posted from AO3 under the same username**

a kinda cliche grumpy x sunshine (i'm living my fantasies through this book) Sera Wynn meets a man one thriller night whom she couldn't really stop thinking about. After being offered an internship opportunity at the place he owns and manages, she's determined to get to know him better and befriend him through the course of her time there. Quiet and distant, Rowan seems unapproachable at first. But no one seems to be immune to Sera's bright smile and bubbly attitude. Tropes: grumpy x sunshine, fake dating, slight age gap (fmc is above 18)

"You're supposed to be dead." "And you're supposed to be the best assassin in the world." Celeste Dobrev and Nic Laurant are two of the most cold-hearted assassins in all of Italy. Wanting each other dead, Celeste finally gets her way when she stabs him and leaves him for dead. Or so she thought. Until three months later, when not only he is still alive, but is looking for her for revenge. The don offers her a plan after hearing Nic is still alive; make Nic Laurant fall in love with her by July 31st and kill him on that day, and he will tell her who killed her family 4 years ago. Having one month to make her biggest enemy fall in love with her, she starts her plan called The Art of Deception. But will it be enough to make a man that never feels anything, feel love? Deception can be dangerous. Especially when it wears nothing but high heels and Valentino lipstick.