"It's just a needle, relax." Forest states calmly as he readies the needle and vial. "Easy for you to say you're not the one being stabbed with a pointy death tube." I thrashed, bucking and trying to free myself from Asher's arms. "Easy! You're going to hurt yourself Gray come help me hold her she won't quit moving!" Asher yells. "Let. Me. Go!" I thrashed harder and landed a good elbow to his ribs. He let go of me momentarily to clutch his stomach and I take this time to run. Freedom on the line, and Satan on my heels, I run like a girl. *** Azure Wilson has been on her own for quite a while. Turning to the streets to protect herself, she joins a gang at 12 and stays under the protection of Declan Henson, the gang leader and her 'personal' protector. Now 15, Azure finds herself as a more involved member of the gang, and gets to be the drug mule to a buy that goes south real quick. Leonardo Vincetti is the Don of the Italian Mafia. He's fed up with the gangs that have been poaching his goods and dealing with his clients under the table. Promising cheaper prices and more product, Devin and the Skulls have become a problem that needs to be eliminated. Setting up a fake deal expecting Declan or one of the men from his inner circle to arrive, he is in for quite the surprise when he's met with a scared teenage girl who looks an awful lot like him. Azure "escapes" and unknowingly leads the Italians right to Declan's hideout. Azure finds herself a prisoner being treated with far more care than the rest of her fellow gang members. Six boys and a Mafia legacy, Leonardo must figure out who this child is and why she has his eyes. Before someone else figures it out first. A past she doesn't remember, and an unsteady future, Azure must think fast, and act faster if she wants to take control of her life.

This story is about Emma a girl struggling with life an the eating disorder anorexia. She thinks she only has her best friend Ally's help and her twin brother Ethan's help but there are more to help than them. Ethan invites one of his friends to live with them while Emma is away. Will her life change when she comes back?

After an unexpected ceiling collapse sends her apartment into chaos, Madelaine Grayson ends up living with her brother - and dangerously close to his tattooed, way-too-charming roommate. He's off-limits... but resisting him might be impossible. *** When Madelaine Grayson's bathroom ceiling caves in, it's not just drywall that crumbles. It's her entire world. Forced to move in with her brother, she finds herself swept up in the chaos of his new protective attitude - especially when it comes to his tattooed roommate, Noah Laurier. Noah is the epitome of perfection: sweet, hot, and embedded into every thought Madelaine has. But he's forbidden, and the closer she gets, the harder he is to resist. Well... what her brother doesn't know can't hurt him, right? *** "Matt's sister, I presume?" He walks towards the couch and my eyes widen. He's tall. I thought I was tall but this man could tower me, and when he reaches a hand towards me, there's an intricate clock tattooed on the back of his hand and his fingers have bones tattooed over them. This man is not human. He's tall and angular and dripping with sex appeal. This man is hot. Capital H, capital O, capital T. I don't think I've ever seen a human being so attractive. All I can think about as I force myself to keep my eyes on the screen is the feel of his jaw beneath my hand, and it takes everything in me not to look

Randomly written during my lowest points.

|| Highest Rank - #1 in Teen Fiction and #5 in Romance || Melody Carson has been in the same class as Tyson McCannon since primary school. She's watched him play with girls, set the school on fire, skip classes, prank teachers, smoke behind the school, break the law, get into fights with other guys for fun and even watched him get suspended for three weeks. He always ruins everything and never does what he is told. Melody has hated him since the day he set foot in her school and luckily he has never noticed her. That is, until now. Tyson has set his eyes on Melody and won't stop until he gets what he wants. And he wants her. *-*-* Note: It is cliché at first but it gets better. [COMPLETED] Copyright © by Laylaa Khan

She's not the best at standing up for herself. He doesn't like that. He watches her all the time to keep an eye on her. She doesn't know that. Started: November 9, 2022 Completed: August 28, 2023 *Trigger Warnings, Language, Mature Themes*

|the true story of a girl falling apart a boy falling for her| Crystal Monroe is falling apart at the seams, being torn to shreds by the picture-perfect, abusive boyfriend she has surrendered herself to. Ryan Falls is trying to be a better man without letting his past catch up with him, as he fights his demons single-handed. Literally. Maybe they can catch each other before it's too late. Because they're both falling. Crystal is falling off the edge, and Ryan is falling for her.

I anticipated every breath, and every word. Each day, you could only take an uneducated guess at what he would say. What he would do. My heart tremor as he leaned in. "I was wrong, sweetheart. I was so wrong," he whispered, the words tickling my ears. "Because with you, there are no doubts. Only love, so, so much love. And, I will spend every single day, every minute, and every fucking second proving that I deserve it." *** Kimberly Wrighton, the new girl who is desperate to make it through her senior year with as little issue as possible. The girl with a diary containing her insecurities, her secrets, and her true self. Kade Ryder, the typical popular guy who feeds off of fights, anger, and violence. The guy that gets whatever he wants, no matter who or what he has to destroy in order to get it. The bad boy that girls swoon over. The guy with a heart so cold, he would laugh in the face of someone's insecurities. This time, though, Kade had gone too far. What if the most rudest, arrogant, popular, and most beautiful man in your school took your diary? What if he read every thought, every bare emotion, and every word of it? What if, in the venture to get it back, you begin to see the real man behind the cold, hard exterior, the real you, and the real truth?

Book One in the 'Beautiful' Trilogy. Aria Valenti thought she'd buried her past the day she walked out of New York. Now she's back - older, wiser, disguising secrets, and still haunted by emerald blue eyes that once promised her the world and destroyed it. Dominic De Luca is no longer the reckless boy she loved. He's the Don. Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable. With blood on his hands. But when their worlds collide again, secrets ignite, and enemies circle closer. She's the only weakness he can't afford, yet the one thing he can't seem to let go. A story of love, betrayal, and the kind of passion that can burn a city to the ground. ******************************************* Rankings: #1 under #badboy (06/02/2021) #1 under #action-adventure (29/11/2020) #1 under #sexy (20/11/2020) #1 under #truelove (16/10/2020) #1 under #action-romance (02/10/2020) #1 under #gangleader (23/09/2020) #2 under #gangster (24/06/2020) #2 under #secrets (20/06/2020) #2 under #badboy (09/06/2020) #1 under #mafiaromance (28/05/2020) #1 under #stronglanguage (28/05/2020) #1 under #sexy (16/04/2020) #2 under #lust (27/04/2020) #1 under #truelove (10/02/2020) #2 under #mafia (10/02/2020) #1 under #action-adventure (19/02/2020) #1 under #shooting (19/02/2020) #1 under #badboylovestory (19/02/2020) #1 under #mafiaromance (10/2019)

When you're broken, lost and got nothing left to lose... you become bulletproof. Trying to fix your life back together after having it shaken upside down isn't easy. Getting used to normal when you feel like an outcast in your own skin, isn't easy. Struggling to find your true place, isn't either. Nothing in Kimberly's life would ever be the same, but she got comebacks, attitude and her friends to help. A year in Kimmy's life.