rascality /rasˈkalɪti/ noun mischievous or dishonest behaviour or activity. Addilyn never expected her life to become this. One minute she's spiralling through parties, drugs, and self-destruction, and the next she's living inside a mansion with brothers she barely knows-men who are dangerous, powerful, overprotective, and impossible to understand. Vincent controls everything with cold calmness. Lorenzo is quiet, watchful, and impossible to read. Alonzo hides his loyalty behind humour and chaos. Dante solves problems with his fists, Rico masks concern with sarcasm, and somewhere in the middle of it all is five-month-old Mae-the tiny baby who somehow becomes the only thing capable of softening Addilyn's walls. Forced into an elite private school after months away, Addilyn is thrown into a world of wealth, secrets, tension, parties, and unwanted attention. But as old connections resurface, tempers explode, and dangerous people start getting too close, she realises this family isn't normal. And neither is she anymore. Because behind the luxury and control is something darker-a family built on power, loyalty, violence, and the kind of love that destroys anyone who threatens one of their own. Between late-night chaos, complicated relationships, brutal protectiveness, and feelings she doesn't know how to handle, Addilyn has to figure out whether this new life is saving her... Or ruining her beyond repair.

Stolen as a child, Returned to a family of power and blood. Amara must learn that loyalty is everything. Maybe also get used to having 7 brothers? | this book is all mine, I made it all from my imagination. I don't and won't ever copy someone else's work just so it's clear|

The greek vassilisa: The greek queen "Fire dosent warn. It consumes." After years of being kept away and haunted, Elara is suddenly forced to live under one roof with her brothers - the most feared men in the Greek Mafia. The Rules: - Don't leave the house alone - Don't trust anyone outside the family - Don't fall for anyone Especially not their enemy. Because when she does... War starts. But she has hopes for something new. An empire. Peace. But that doesn't last long. So when members from the Swedish Mafia betray their own mafia, the two rival families are forced to work together to stop the uprising war.

It isn't everyday you get to find out that everything knew about yourself and the people around you is a lie. Suddenly life is taking a 180-degree turn and you don't know whether to run toward it or a way from it. Amelia is thrown into a world that she is unfamiliar with. Suddenly she is surrounded by 6 new presences who should be familiar to her, yet feel like complete strangers. they stand like pillars of a house she hasn't earned the key to yet- guarded, silent and heavy with secrets she cant begin to guess. She watches them from behind the high walls she's built around herself. Having been let down so many times before, her instinct isn't to reach out but to brace for the moment they inevitably turn their backs. Yet beneath the cold stares and the suffocating silence of this new life, there is a pulse she didn't expect. Its in the way the subconsciously move to shield her in a crowded room or the heavy unspoken weight of their shared grief that mirrors her own. Eventually the strangers will start to feel like anchors. The secrets that once felt like weapons will become the foundation of a pact they make to protect one another. She wont just be a guest in their world; she will be the piece that finally makes them whole.

Alessia Moretti-the only daughter of a powerful mafia don-vanishes at seventeen without ransom or trace. Her seven brothers tear the underworld apart searching for her, but years pass and she becomes a ghost. Until they find her. But Alessia isn't broken-she's built her own empire. After escaping her captors, she stayed away on purpose, uncovering a betrayal from within her own family. Now known as "La Volpe," she controls a powerful underground network and is smarter, colder, and stronger than ever. Her brothers wanted to rescue their sister. Instead, they found a queen. Now, as enemies close in and the truth threatens to destroy everything, Alessia must decide: stand beside her family... or take control of the empire herself.

Fifteen-year-old Ainsley Myers doesn't look like someone who's afraid. She's quiet, loud when needed to be, flat, and sarcastic. The kind of girl who fills silence with humor and defiance, who keeps people laughing just far enough away that they never get too close. Where her twin sister Athena learned to move gently through the world, Ainsley learned to hit it first, using noise, wit, and distance as armor. Athena was protected. Ainsley was not. Athena grew up kind, soft-spoken, and trusting, never fully knowing the depth of what her sister endured, only sensing that something was wrong. Ainsley never told her. Not because she didn't love her, but because she didn't know how to explain it. Because the worst parts didn't feel explainable. Because silence felt safer than truth. When their current foster dad is arrested, everything they believe about their lives collapses. They weren't abandoned. They were stolen. Waiting for them is a family that never stopped searching: a father who left space at the table, brothers raised on stories and hope, and a home built on patience instead of punishment. For Athena, the return feels like a chance to finally breathe. For Ainsley, it feels like danger. Because sarcasm doesn't survive gentleness. Armor doesn't work in a house built on patience. And distance becomes impossible in a family that refuses to give up on you. As Athena begins to settle into safety, Ainsley resists closeness with jokes, walls, and emotional deflection. But the longer this family stays, the harder it becomes to pretend she doesn't care. The harder it becomes to keep fighting a world that no longer looks like a threat. Surrounded by people who don't demand, don't push, and don't leave, Ainsley must face the one truth she's spent her life outrunning: That maybe she doesn't have to be loud to be safe. That maybe she doesn't have to be sharp to survive. And that love doesn't have to hurt to be real.

[Free Until End Of Story] ── ─ ┈┈┈┄┄╌╌ Sheltered and naive, Stella Castellano grows up isolated from the world, homeschooled and protected by her brothers. When she finally steps into the world, she uncovers a devastating truth that her brothers are deeply entangled in the criminal underworld. Her innocence proves fatal. Falling in love with the wrong boy, Stella unknowingly becomes the catalyst for her family's destruction. When a bullet finally claims her life, Stella believes her story has reached its tragic end. Instead, she awakens in the past, before everything went wrong. Granted a second chance by an inexplicable miracle, Stella's no longer the sheltered girl she once was. This time, she lives for revenge. Hiding her intentions behind an innocent smile, Stella begins to rewrite fate. Determined to protect her brothers and make those who destroyed her family pay. ── ─ ┈┈┈┄┄╌╌ ⚠️ Trigger Warning: This story contains sensitive and potentially distressing themes, including psychological trauma and mature content. Note - Update: Random - Cover: Canva © 2026 [CherylZielle]. All rights reserved. Do not copy or distribute the story without permission.

Sierra Esposito knew three things well. One- People were inherently evil and selfish. Two- Words are what got you hurt. Three- Sometimes it was easier to accept the situation, rather than fight back. These three rules got her through life-- not unscathed, but alive. Even when she didn't want to be. ... Giuseppe De Santis had been searching for his missing daughter, ever since she was taken all those years ago. When he finally gets the phonecall saying she's been found, he's ecstatic. Finally happy that everything can go back to the way it used to be. But Sierra has changed since she was a baby and she knows nothing of him and his world. And when she isn't speaking to him or her brothers, it's almost impossible to get her to open up. They must learn to be a family again, but that's almost impossible. There are so many secrets between them and other factors are at play. Factors that are determined to get Sierra back, no matter who gets hurts. ... TW* This story has mentions/depictions of assault (physical, sexual, mental, etc), alcohol abuse, drug abuse, self-harm, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, violence, and anything else falling under those categories. Please prioritize your mental health. *Any images in the cover and/or chapters are not mine. I found them on Pinterest* *I own all the rights to these characters. Please do not pirate my work*

Aysel Moren, the feared name today was once dearest to her brothers until that dreadful night of her 16th birthday when every ounce of love was snatched away from her. One moment, the Kingsley family was celebrating her only daughter's birthday, the other moment, Aysel and her five brothers were standing at their own parents' funeral. And the worst part? Aysel was blamed for it. Her face was caught in the CCTV camera. The family was already shattered and the last form of togetherness was also stripped away when they threw 16 years old Aysel outside their house. She pleaded and pleaded to the point that her voice cracked, her throat got soared. The brothers turned deaf ears to her pleas. That day, she not only lost her parents but her brothers too who have promised to be with her in every situation. She left. She knew her brothers won't even look at her, listening was still too far. Having struggled for years, she finally gained the power and rebirth from ashes under Moren's Mafia. The rival of Kingsley once upon a time. She vowed to never look back, until one day, she got the news of a bomb being planted in Kingsley's mansion. It took her every cell to convince herself that she doesn't care but a sister still exists inside her who has never fully stopped loving the men, she once called brothers. She saved them from the fire, treated their injuries inside her own house. And gives them exactly one month to regain everything they lost from the enemy who burned down their whole mansion, who also managed to freeze their bank accounts. They'll stay inside her house for a month watching her little sister all grown up, holding scars and secrets like a second skin. Will they be able to see her real broken state beyond the facade she carries everyday? Will the truth of that night ever emerge out? Read to find out "Thirty Days Under Her Roof". This is completely my story, my imagination. Copyright © 2026 by Alisha

Ten-year-old Lily Parker has spent her life hidden behind locked doors, surviving a foster father's cruelty with only her voice to keep her company. She's never known love, never known safety, and never known family. But when a shocking truth comes to light, Lily discovers she isn't as alone as she thought. Three brothers she's never met are coming into her life, bringing protection, secrets, and a danger far greater than anything she has endured. In a world where trust is fragile and every shadow could hold a threat, Lily must navigate her new family, face her past, and find the courage to reclaim the life that was stolen from her.