Very first story ever..... After losing her parents, Lila Calloway grew up in her best friend's house-protected, loved, and watched over like family. She was never supposed to fall for Ethan, her best friend's older brother. Ethan knows the rules: Lila is too young, too close, too off-limits. But the more he tries to bury his feelings, the stronger they burn. Every laugh, every fight, every stolen moment only pulls them closer to a line neither of them should cross. Now Lila is eighteen, and the truth can't stay hidden. Families will judge. Friends will question. But some love is too powerful to ignore-no matter the cost. A forbidden, coming-of-age romance about family, desire, and the line that changes everything.

"𝙃𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙣. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙪𝙞𝙣. 𝙏𝙤𝙜𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙." 𝐋𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐛𝐲 has always been invisible-the quiet girl who learned to survive by staying small. She knows how to keep her head down, how to hide the bruises, how to pretend everything is fine. But when she's forced to start over at Elite High-her father's perfect school for perfect people-her world collides with his. 𝐍𝐨𝐚𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 is the golden boy. The mayor's son. The flawless heir to a spotless legacy. Everyone loves him. Everyone needs something from him. Until he meets the girl with sad eyes and trembling hands-the one person who looks at him and sees straight through the shine. She's all soft edges and quiet defiance. He's all sharp smiles and restless guilt. And when their worlds intertwine, something beautiful-and dangerous-begins to bloom. Because love doesn't always heal. Some hearts are just built to break. - 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐬: golden boy × broken girl · high school angst · slow burn · trauma healing · "who did this to you?" · found comfort · small-town secrets · protective love · pain-turned-tenderness · emotional intimacy

All Baby has known in life is pain. Years spent locked away in an attic to bare the agony of her father's brutal hands. Family is a concept unknown to her since the moment her mother died when she was only a mere five years old. Thirteen years she's spent alone, caged away from the world and unknowing of the secrets that await her. One of them being a storm eyed male that would change her life forever. But not everything is what it seems... Follow Baby and her journey as she immerses herself into a whole new world with her new family, friends, old and new enemies... and men that were slowly consuming her mind, body, and soul. ═════════════════════ ✨✨ This is the 1st installment of a 2 part series. ✨✨ ═════════════════════ STORY IS NOT EDITED - there are many grammatical errors, chapters are slowly being edited, please be patient with me. ═════════════════════

She was the price of a debt. He was the devil collecting it. Sofia Murphy lives in a world of color and quiet-a life spent painting soft dreams and hiding from sharp truths. But when her father signs her away to settle a blood debt, she's thrust into the arms of a monster wrapped in a tailored suit. Alessandro Lombardi is a king among criminals. Feared. Worshipped. Deadlier than the sins that built his empire. He doesn't ask for a wife. He takes one. In his world, vows are shackles. Kisses are claims. And love? Love is just another weapon. Sofia is everything he's not-sweet, untouched, innocent, a light he was never meant to hold. But now that he has her, he won't let go. Not when she trembles under his touch. Not when she flinches at his darkness. Not even if she wants to run. Because Alessandro doesn't chase. He hunts. He craves her obedience. Worships her purity. And if she ever thinks of running? He'll track her down with a smile, chain her to his bed, and remind her-slowly, ruthlessly-who owns her body. And who owns her soul. He didn't just marry her. He branded her. And in this house? There's no escape. Only surrender. And if the world dares come between them? He'll burn it to the ground-just to watch her smile in the ashes.

Pierce Travis is used to getting whatever he wants, whenever he wants. Football, girls, grades, everything comes easy for him. But when he transfers high schools for his sport and is tossed into a traditional 'game' the seniors play each year, he may be in over his head. What happens when to win the game, he needs to sleep with the one girl in the school who doesn't bat at eye at him- Isabella Castra. She's quiet, reserved, and on track to be the valedictorian of Greenbrook High. With social skills stunted by her traumatic childhood, she's used to being alone with her school work. Until the new boy takes an interest in her, and she's thrown into the world of mean girls and popular guys she's never known even existed. 🔥 SLOW BURN 🔥

Renna Rose Lancaster is the girl people stare at like she belongs in a glass case, a life airbrushed into unattainable perfection. But Renna knows her life is nothing but a golden prison coated in pretty lies that keep her muted and small. Her days are rehearsed into something delicate and careful, her voice cropped into harmless replies that soothe everyone except her own skin. She is tired of being the pretty prop everyone tries to claim. Tired of sculpting her smile into something pretty enough to display. She craves something wild enough to bruise. A tale that scars. Someone ruthless enough to crack her open and let the real Renna bleed out. 🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤 Aadam Alaric Callahan is the boy people look at like he walked straight out of a storm, a warning shaped into a body that keeps the world stepping back. But Aadam knows the storm is only armor forged to bury the wounds tearing at him in the dark. His nights collapse into frantic patterns that scrape at his sanity, his thoughts twisting into brutal corridors he cannot escape alone. He is tired of being the haunted figure everyone judges. Tired of forcing his heartbeat to mimic cold iron while the rest of him crumbles toward collapse. He longs for something fierce enough to drag him back from the brink. A light that stays bright even when the night closes in. Someone who'll stare into the abyss with the real Aadam and refuse to look away. 🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤 She recognizes the ghost of the boy who once held her like she was the only sunrise he could still believe in. He hears echoes of the girl whose reckless laugh once drowned out the screams in his skull. Will they claw through the years of ruin to find that old fire again... or will the same shadows that shattered them finally swallow them whole, leaving nothing but ghosts and graves?

Sixteen year old Aurora Lark didn't expect for everything to change, having to move to a new town and start a new school her senior year she feels completely out of her depth. She's always had a hard time making friends, she's shy and a little awkward but her luck changes when her first day at her new school she befriends Ivy Davis.

Crestwood Academy: where legacies are born, secrets are currency, and scholarship girls like Luna Ferreira don't survive - they endure. Luna's only goal is to keep her head down, ace her classes, and prove she belongs at the elite academy where power drips from every marble pillar. But the moment she collides - literally - with Arien Andersen, everything changes. Arien is cold, untouchable, and ruthless. He rules Crestwood like a king in designer suits, with a last name that makes professors flinch and students obey. He also has a best friend - Luna's brother - which makes him strictly off-limits. Too bad no one told Arien that. She's fire. He's ice. And in a school where loyalty is bought and enemies wear diamonds, one thing is certain: If Luna wants to survive Crestwood... she'll have to stop running from the boy who watches her like a storm about to break. And if Arien wants to keep his throne? He'll have to stop wanting the girl who could burn it all down.

In a world swallowed by shadows, where ruthless hearts rule and evil walks freely, kindness is a rare bloom in a field of thorns. Among the chaos, where mercy is weakness and love is a forgotten whisper, a little light dares to shine. She is that light. But can a fragile beam of sunshine survive in a storm of cruelty? Can innocence find peace in a world built on blood and betrayal? Can love bloom in a place where it's never been truly known? Let's find out.

Xavier Moretti. A 28 year old don of the Italian-American mafia. He's a cold, ruthless, emotionless devil who doesn't care about anyone or anything. So when he kidnaps the wrong woman? he has to fight to earn her trust and protect her from the dangerous world he brought her in to. Charlotte Rose Meadows. Your average 19 year old girl. She's innocent, kind, and full of life. Everything Xavier isn't. When she's wrongfully kidnapped by the mafia, she has to learn how to trust people again and adapt to her new dangerous lifestyle. ---------------------------------------- ''You know Eliza, you have such a pretty little face. It would be such a shame to see it scarred, wouldn't it?'' he says as he drags the bloody knife along my cheek. Wait... Eliza? He thinks my name is Eliza? 'What are the chances you happen to just walk into my club on a random Saturday night?' His club... MY FAKE ID! ''E-Eliza?'' I mumble and he tilts his head slightly ''My name...i-its Charlotte'' ---------------------------------------- #1 ON FICTION 05/11/25 #10 ON PLOTTWIST 23/10/25 #13 ON DARKROMANCE 24/10/25 #7 ON MAFIA 25/10/25 #3 ON JEALOUSY 26/10/25 #5 ON POSSESSIVE 25/10/25 #1 ON ITALIANMAFIA 28/10/25 #11 ON LOVE 18/11/25 #1 ON MAFIABOSS 04/11/25