"Your heart has no concept of time, if it wants to move on, it will. With or without you,"

"Solè, why'd you stay?" "Because, Zaire... you the first thing that ever felt worth staying for." ❀ 🝳 ❀ Harlem held the noise. Solè gave Zaire the quiet. Zaire Knox, Harlem's quiet storm, known for his ties to the streets and a gaze that read people faster than they could lie to him. Respected. Feared. Loved. With scars buried deeper than his tattoos, he never planned to love soft. Until a Harlem vinyl shop left behind by his late grandfather forces him to slow down, to breathe, to find his real purpose in the world beyond the streets. Solè Sinclair, soft but unbreakable, raised by her father after loss. By day, she serves warmth behind the counter of a café. By night, she disappears into her art, trying to paint the parts of herself no one ever sees. When their worlds cross, the city shifts. What starts off tense and unexpected turns tender. Together, they learn love can hold you just as fierce as the streets ever did, and softer, too. But love in Harlem always asks one question: what are you willing to risk when the heart wants more than the streets ever offered? A Harlem story. A hood love. A soft place to land. ❀ 🝳 ❀

when three college friends let desire turn their friendship into a poly relationship.

At twenty, Navi Banks has traded college life for cabin aisles, chasing freedom one flight at a time and leaving her Chicago roots behind. A holiday layover in New Orleans is supposed to be just another stop-until the crew discovers their hotel is barely fit to stay in. When the city's native pilot offers her a secret alternative, Karris is faced with a choice that's as tempting as it is reckless. One decision. Four nights. And a layover that was never part of the flight plan.

❝ sugarcoated, lies unfolded, you still lick the wrapper.❞

And in that moment, I realized something that I've always known deep down in my heart. I finally understand why my eyes would always cling to him in a room, why my mood would always lighten up whenever he was around, why my world brightened up when I met him- why the sun shined brighter, trees and grass were greener, flowers smelled better. Why he makes my world more beautiful simply by existing in it. It's because I'm in love him. The type of love that you never knew existed until you finally experience it yourself, the type of love that's hard to put into words because it's a love you've never had for anyone else. And never will. - JAMISON MACK ... And in which, Jamison Mack drunkly kisses his very much in love bestfriend, Hayden Zhang. Shouldn't be much of a problem, they both agree to forget about it. It was a drunken mistake. Nothing more, nothing less. One problem, neither of them can stop thinking about it. What could go wrong? Or in simpler words, a chaotic bisexual pro basketball player who's in love with his playboy footballer bestfriend. highest rankings #1 - interracialbxb #1 - maybesmut #2- collegefootball #2- interracialbxb #3- lgbtq #3- interracialbxb #13- interracialbxb

Mila Carter is a girl living a life that feels ordinary on the surface: she works at a corner store, goes to community college part time, and lives in a cramped, slightly run down apartment with her loud, opinionated Aunt Ro. Mila is sarcastic, and funny in a way that hides how much of the world she's learned to navigate alone. Her life is predictable, boring even, and she likes it that way until her dreams start getting dangerous. For years, Mila has been plagued by vivid, disorienting "memory dreams" that feel too real to be normal. Faces, voices, and events she has never experienced play out in her sleep with details that are impossible to ignore. At first, she thinks it's her imagination running wild, or maybe stress. But then she realizes that some of the events in her dreams start showing up in real life people she's never met appear in her neighborhood, arguments she's never heard of erupt on the corner, and she starts recognizing places she has never been. The dreams are no longer just weird they're warnings. Her life takes a dramatic turn the night she receives a call from a blocked number at exactly 3:13 AM, the same time she always wakes from her disturbing dreams. A calm, chilling voice tells her: "You got seven days left. Fix what you broke." Mila has no idea what it means, but immediately her life spirals into a countdown she cannot ignore. Soon, she discovers that she isn't the only one receiving these mysterious messages.