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intrepidity by softpixels
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Aurora's life had always been about survival, each day a quiet battle against fear and pain. When her stepfather was finally arrested, she thought the fight was over. But leaving one dangerous world meant stepping into another-one she didn't fully understand. Now, she's living with seven older brothers she barely knows, their lives a tangle of secrets and shadows they never speak of. Their house is loud, protective, and filled with rules she's afraid to break. For Aurora, it's a new kind of survival. For her brothers, it's a chance to keep her safe-no matter what it takes.
HER MR. RATHORE♡ ~the tale of love  by lostinfictiousworld
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|| Rudransh Singh Rathore|| 27. CEO of Rathore Enterprises. The name that echoes fear in boardrooms and underworlds alike. The most powerful mafia alive-lethal, ruthless, and dangerously composed. With anger that burns beneath his cold stare and a presence that commands silence, he's arrogance dressed in tailored suits. An untouchable storm-unforgiving to the world, but a silent protector to his own. For his family, he becomes the softest armor; for the rest, he is destruction wrapped in elegance. 🦋 || AANYA AGRAWAL || 23. A dreamer wrapped in pastels, pursuing her Master's in Drawing and Painting. Hopes to paint the world with her own art studio someday. The kind of soul who dances in the rain and loses herself in books. Sweet as a lullaby to those who treat her right, but a storm in heels to those who don't. Loves fiercely-her family is her world, and her two best friends, her anchors. Her brother guards her like royalty, and to him, she'll always be his little princess. RUDRANSH x AANYA Two souls, worlds apart. He's chaos in control-sharp edges, cold stares, and darkness cloaked in power. She's soft sunshine-paint-stained fingers, twirling to music only she can hear. They say opposites attract-but this? This is fate colliding with fire. Watch them clash, crumble, and fall in a love stitched with sparks, sass, and sweet little nok-jhok. Stay tuned. Their story is anything but ordinary. - your author, Eleena🦋 Where chaos meets calm, and storms fall for sunsets. I write love, with a touch of fire. Stay tuned.✨️ Started : 12 January 2024 Ongoing ....
𝐌𝐀𝐅𝐈𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋 ✅ by blind-faith
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Valentina struggles to keep her life together after giving birth to her son, and the baby's father is nowhere to be seen. Vincenzo 'Enzo' as they call him, is a ruthless mafia leader, but he feels like he is missing something. Someone. One fateful night, Valentina gets caught up hiding inside a store, as there is a robbery going on, and Vincenzo just happens to see her running out of the back door. Will Valentina trust him, or will she keep her walls built high?
His Sugar |√|  by Liakadaa
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A romcom story about a girl and her brother's best friend who always annoyed her but suddenly started acting all possessive over her. ~~ "Don't you think Charlie likes you?" Scott asked angrily. His jaw clenched. "And why do you think he likes me?" I asked and raised my eyebrow. "Because he keeps trying to come near you." He said with a serious look on his face. "Are you crazy?" I asked. "Don't let him or anyone come near you." He said angrily. "Why?" I asked. "Because-" He said and smashed his lips against mine. I was still for a second but I wrapped my arms instantly around his neck and pulled him closer. ~~ I was 13 when I wrote this book so spare me for the mistakes. This is my first book. Please give it a chance. . . . Do not copy. 🚫 Plagiarism is a crime. HIGHEST RANKING #5 in hot #8 in humour #7 in sarcasm #8 in lovestory #13 in teenlove 14 in #brothersbestfriend 14 in #jealousy 20 in #protective
Daisy by bonezzzzzz
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He continues to stare as the young girl hums quietly, while keeping her eyes locked on the book in her hands. At the sound of his footsteps, she suddenly stops reading only to look up and let out a squeal, one that he found adorable. Her already rosy cheeks become even brighter. "Hello." He melts at the sound of her angelic voice and says his next words carefully, softly. "Hi sweetheart." She tilts her head to the side as he unknowingly stares at her with a certain longing. "Who are you?" "I'm Seth. What's your name?" He questions, taking a step into her room. She grins, causing two cute dimples to appear on her cheeks. "Daisy." ~ In which Seth Andrews, who is usually quiet and brooding, becomes captivated by his best friends little sister, Daisy Miller, who believes everyone has at least a little good in them.
reticent by islaholland
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Amalia Romano is sixteen years old now. Still a dancing prodigy, she lands herself a photoshoot for a magazine that'll help her get to where she wants to be. It seems like everything's going perfectly fine. Her grades are booming, she has a nice circle of friends and her family adore her. She's content, happy and finally safe where she is. Nothing can go wrong. That's what she thinks until Archer King, the typical bad boy, enters her life--brown hair so dark it's almost black, almost always obscured by his motorcycle helmet. Tattoos he's definitely not allowed embedded into his skin, and a careless attitude that clashes with hers. After a messy mix up in school, she decides to ignore him.. until she gets assigned to work with him for a project that'll make up a large chunk of her final grade for the year. Not only does she have to put up with him, but she also has to hide him from her family, since he's the exact type she's always been warned away from. She also has to juggle more than one relationship in her already hectic life. [COVER BY @sugarhighstoned]
Serendipity by jmkrb1
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Carlotta Angela Vasiliev is a 17 year old girl living with her adoptive Russian mafia family of 4 brothers and father. Ever since she was a child, she's had no sense of belonging, abused by the Swedish mafia in her youth, her Russian saviours are the only family she knows. That is until someone frames her with the CPS and she gets taken away to live with her biological family. Enter the Italian mafia. 5 more overprotective brothers who finally got their little sister home in New York. Carlotta faces a new life with a new family, will she ever see her adoptive brothers again? Or will she replace them with her biologicals? What happens when she meets a boy who catches her eye? ~~~ "Car." He cuts me off, taking a step towards me, "Nothing about you could ever bother me." He says, lifting a hand to cup one of my cheeks. "Apart from your bratty attitude, but you'll learn." He adds on at the end nonchalantly smirking down at me as his hand slides from my cheek to my throat. TW: Mentions of abuse, rape, violent scenes and SMUT
Enzo by love8dreams
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Lorenzo is the most feared mafia boss in the world, he is still so young but already has a daughter Clara. With all things cough up in work he hires someone to babysit her. Lillian a an angel straight from heaven,she shows a smile to the world but in reality she is trying to stay alive.
Glass & Sorrows by NoelleWicked
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COMPLETED - [2025 - 03 - 23] "She was a risk he shouldn't take... But he took her anyway." Dante De Loughrey-born in blood, raised in power. The heir to a kingdom built on shadows and sin, with vengeance burning through his veins like a disease. Ruthless, calculating, and untouchable, he's spent his life chasing redemption for a past he can never change. Haunted by the one mistake that formed his reality. There is no room in his world for softness, no space for distractions. Until her. A girl with too much light in her eyes, a vaguely familiar last name, and the light that tempts him past the point of reason. A weakness he can't afford. A fire he can't put out. He should walk away. He should let her go. But Dante has never been one to resist taking what he wants. And Wendy Aberidge? She will be his. Wendy Aberidge has spent her life fighting to survive, struggling to keep her past from dragging her under. A girl caught between hope and ruin, the goodness of her heart has always believing in second chances. In hope to prove that whatever beliefs she had in humanity were still true. Until him. Dante is everything she should fear-dangerous, cold, the kind of man who commands the world with a look. But when her kindness pulls her into his orbit, she finds herself trapped in a world where mercy is weakness and love is a one way ticket to death. Their love is a game of fire and ice, their fate tangled in a web of betrayal and desire. And in a world where every choice has a price, where every heartbeat could be their last-one question remains: Will their love be their salvation? Or their downfall? Glass & Sorrows is the #1 book in the Gems of Sentiment series.
The Don Saved Me | ✔️ by ivyxjadewrites
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Book 1 of the Accardi series Please read the trigger warnings ~ 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬, a sweet 18 year old girl who's endured years upon years of abuse from her father and his friends. The night of her 18th birthday she's finally able to escape, but while walking the streets of New York she has no idea where to go. So she ends up in an alleyway, finding Lorenzo but is terrified at what she witnesses. 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐨 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢 is a 21 year old, supposedly ruthless mafia leader. Many fear him, but deep down he's a sweetheart. Delilah's the one who gets him out of this ruthless exterior he puts on. When he meets Delilah, he knows something is up from the start and wants to know what. But Delilah struggles to trust him after everything she went through and what she witnessed him do. She just wanted to get away from her old life, running away was the best option. He just happened to be doing one of the many things mafia boss's do the same night she ran away. Neither of them expected this. ~ She's too distracted while I continue to kiss her neck to even notice me taking out my phone, quickly taking a picture of us. I don't notice the flash being on, so she notices me taking the picture and pushes me away jokingly. "Delete that!" she begs. "And why should I do that?" I'm definitely keeping this picture. "I look horrible right now!" That's a load of shit. The thing is, whenever she thinks that she looks horrible is when she looks her best. But she also always looks her best. My effortlessly pretty girl. "You do not. Del, you're always the most beautiful person around, stop talking that nonsense." She blushes, again. She blushes so easily, I love it.