based on the song 'perfume' by Britney Spears. I want to believe It's just you and me Sometimes it feels like there's three Of us in here baby.... ------ 1st February - 1st September 2018

I knew my best friend since childhood loved me. I knew it. And when I got back from my business trip, I was going to tell him how I felt, especially when he told me he had something exciting to tell me. But it wasn't that he loved me. He'd gotten married while I was on an overseas business trip to my worst enemy.

(BOOK 1 Of the QUEENS OF CHAOS SERIES) Isa Valen doesn't believe in restraint. Two weeks ago, she did champagne, a sinfully accented stranger, and a night so consuming she ran before sunrise. She doesn't remember his face. She doesn't remember his name. But her body remembers the way he made it burn. When her sister runs to New York, Isa follows without hesitation. New city. New job. New distractions. Then she meets her boss. Erik Orlov. Billionaire. Bratva Don. A devastatingly gorgeous tattooed man built from control and violence wrapped in tailored suits. The first time he looks at her, something tightens in her chest. The first time he steps close, her pulse betrays her. She doesn't recognize him. He recognizes the curve of her mouth. The sound she made when he touched her. The way she ran. The night she can't remember is the one he hasn't stopped replaying. Now she works beneath him - in his office, in his space, in his world. Every glance lasts too long. Every accidental touch feels deliberate. Every breath between them feels charged. And Erik Orlov does not chase. He claims. Enemies circle his empire. Loyalty fractures. Power shifts. But none of it unsettles him like the woman sitting across his desk, pretending she doesn't feel it too. Until two pink lines appear. Because the only thing more dangerous than their chemistry... Is the secret growing between them. And this time, he won't let her run.

Katherine and Cole find each other before either understands what they're carrying. Katherine believes she has found her soulmate and builds her life around that certainty. Cole struggles to name what he feels or what he's capable of giving. Neither recognizes how deeply the past is shaping their choices. By the time betrayal arrives, the foundation they trusted begins to fracture. Told through alternating timelines and perspectives, If It Had Ever Been Enough explores love shaped by unresolved trauma and what happens when devotion turns into something harder to survive. Not everything that feels like love is.

This isn't just about how Lucifer became the man everyone feared. It's about the revenge he waited years to take on the woman who once made him believe in forever-only to shatter him. It's about me-his ex-still loving him in all the ways I shouldn't. Standing beside him as he hunts down every scrap of her happiness. Hoping, foolishly, that he might look at me the way he once did. And it's about the ending no one saw coming- The day he chose someone else. . . . . . TROPES . Revenge Romance Ex-Lovers, Unfinished Business Obsession and Betrayal Love Triangle Dark Fixation She Waited. He Moved On. First Love, Final War Multiple Pov

Adeline Michaels was the picture perfect house wife. Sacrificing everything to appease her cold, indifferent husband. One day she was served divorce papers and given the heart wrenching news. The man she loved and devoted everything to cheated on her with her adopted sister! worse yet they were expecting and getting married! heart broken she called the only person in her life, her best friend whom she had lost touch with due to her naivety. Luckily her friend was understanding and whisked her away for fun only for poor Adeline to face her cheating ex at a club. She tried to flee but he refused to let her go when a tall, dark, handsome stranger came and saved her. Before she could thank him she was bright into her friend's protective hold. later learning he was a dangerous man from the seedy underground, her friend begged her to stay away. not wanting to be involved in the shady life she agreed but events came along and she found herself seeing more and more of this forbidden stranger. He seemed to follow her every move she made. She didn't like it but was thankful when one day her sister plotted something awful and he saved her again. She finds he's not all evil, a victim of traffic circumstances that led to him needing to survive a harsh world full of violence and crime. She slowly warms his heart and he pushes her out of her comfort zone, bringing things out of her she hadn't expected. Strangers, to friends to forbidden lovers.

A wedding. A secret. A reckoning. When Meredith King' perfect world begins to crack, she doesn't break - she orchestrates. Behind every vow and every smile lies a truth waiting to be revealed. And when the veil finally lifts, no one will be left untouched. Damon Robles is a man that knows what he wants but will the walls he has up crumble when he meets Meredith. Will two broken hearts become one?

When Nora's world shatters, it happens in the cruelest way imaginable - her boyfriend and her best friend. The two people she trusted most, bound together by betrayal and a lie that cuts too deep to forgive. Blinded by heartbreak and driven by fury, Nora makes a reckless choice: she turns to the one man she shouldn't - Tristan, her ex's older brother. What begins as a desperate act of revenge soon becomes something neither of them expected - a marriage that feels dangerously real. But love born out of anger is fragile, and as secrets begin to surface, Nora must confront the truth about her heart, her past, and the man who may be her only salvation. In a world where betrayal and love walk the same line, Vow of Vengeance is a story of heartbreak, healing, and the power of a love that was never meant to happen - but refused to be denied.

Katherine is done with her life. She wants to get away from everything and start anew, leaving her previous life behind. If there's one thing she knows is that she's not staying with her traitor of a mother. But then an unfortunate accident happens, changing everything. And she doesn't know what to do when she runs into a handsome biker. Literally. WARNING! REALLY GRAPHIC CONTENT!

One lesson I learned very early in life was to be cheerful, to be agreeable, to do as I was told and ask for nothing, and to never ever complain. Smile Maddie. Be happy Maddie. Don't make trouble and maybe they'll love you. I grew into an adult who took care of others and never expected that those I loved would take care of me in return. I gave and never asked, never expected, never demanded. Smile Maddie. Be happy Maddie. Don't make trouble and you'll find someone that will love you. And then one day, a Dragon walked into my workplace and turned my world upside down with a single wink. Having grown up watching his father treat his men like they were disposable, just meat bags to be fed into the grinder, Dragon was determined to be different when he became president of the Dragon's Inferno MC. He cares about his people. He takes care of them. He was upfront with me, taking care of his MC and those he considered to be his would always be his priority. And I agreed to that, I joined him in that mission, throwing myself into becoming the perfect old lady of the prez. Smile Maddie. Act happy Maddie. Take care of them and maybe they'll love you. Smile Maddie. Be happy Maddie. Don't complain and maybe he'll love you. I told myself I was independent. I was strong. And I didn't need my Dragon to take care of me. And I almost believed it. Almost. But now I'm watching him with her. I'm watching him comfort her. I'm watching him listen to her, support her, reassure her. I'm watching him take time from his day to check in with her. I'm watching him worry about her. I'm watching them become closer right in front of my eyes. I'm seeing every thoughtful gesture he does for her. And me? I'm not happy. I'm not smiling. I'm done being agreeable. Fuck not causing trouble. I'm about to set my Dragon's world on fire. And then I'm walking away. She can have him. For the first time in my life, I'm choosing myself.