The duality of survival and softness , where light seeps through of midnight lives .

She runs a luxury beauty lounge. He runs routes in the NFL. When soleia Carter and Jeremiah smith cross paths, neither is looking for love - but the chemistry? Instant. She's not impressed by status. He's tired of women chasing his name. But the more they collide, the harder it gets to stay in their own lanes. Because some games aren't played on the field... and hearts don't always follow the rules. 🥇#1 in athlete 🥇#1 in latto 🥇#1 in black fiction 🥇#1 in Atlanta 🥇#1 in entrepreneur 🥇#1 in Jeremiah smith 🥈#2 in romance fiction #4 in urban fiction

"You really think I'm out here giving this dick to anybody else, beautiful?" She swallowed, watching my hands go to my zipper. I smirked, leaning down, dragging my fingers up her thigh, over her soaked panties. "Look at yourself in the mirror, Jade."

"You didn't have to make your friends leave," I mutter, glancing around the now-empty space. He lets out a dark chuckle, stepping closer until his presence consumes all my senses. "How else am I supposed to keep you to myself, Tesoro? If any of them so much as looked at you the wrong way, I'd have to handle it, and that would get... complicated." ~~~ Jada Morales had her life planned: follow rules, stay quiet, and never disappoint her family. That plan crumbled when she found her boyfriend of six years in bed with her sister. Shattered and desperate to numb the betrayal, she stumbles into the wrong club and into the arms of Ryder Marconi. Their night together was supposed to be a fleeting escape, a reckless decision quickly forgotten. But fate has other plans, binding them irrevocably when Jada finds herself pregnant. Ryder is determined to do right by her, offering protection and stability, but love was never part of his dangerous world. Jada wants more than passion and security-she wants the kind of love that won't fracture beneath the weight of secrets. She needs a man who will stay, who won't leave her battling alone. But Ryder knows his world can only harm her, and the closer she gets, the greater the danger becomes. Caught between desire and duty, Ryder must choose: let Jada go to keep her safe or fight for a future they may never survive. Can Jada convince him to risk everything for love, or will Ryder push her away forever, believing it's the only way to protect her?

"Please, baby... I only got a taste. I 𝓝𝓮𝓮𝓭 more." ♧👻♧

Ace is a ruthless killer, he shoot first and ask questions later. His childhood was nothing but rough, protecting and providing for his twin brother was all he did. When he runs into Hendrix she turns his world upside down and bring out something in him he didn't even know was there. No matter how much he pushes her away, she's like the goddamn plague.

He left a mark I never asked for. Now he wants to finish the piece. Amina Westbrook didn't choose motherhood. But when her younger sister dropped a baby and disappeared, Amina stepped in, raised that little girl as her own, and never looked back. Seven years later, the past comes tatted, cocky, and fine as hell, standing in the grocery store with the same hypnotic eyes her daughter sees in the mirror. Santiago Vega. Zuri's father. The man who left before he ever knew she existed. Now he wants in. He wants time. Forgiveness. A chance to be a father. And every time he shows up with that deep voice and soft smirk, Amina hates how bad she wants to let him. He's not just showing up for Zuri-he's showing up for her. Fixing things she didn't ask him to fix. Dropping money in her hand like it's his right. Touching her like he already knows how she breaks. And Amina? She's been holding everything together for so long that she doesn't know how to let go. Doesn't know how to want someone who actually stays. But Santiago? He stays. Through the attitude. The boundaries. The sparks that keep catching fire. And when he finally gets his hands on her? There's nothing soft about it. Now she's spiraling in his sheets, fighting him in front of her family, and falling harder than she ever meant to. Because Santiago doesn't just want to play daddy. He wants the whole damn family. And this time, he's not leaving until he has them.

Hendrichs is an egotistical man hiring a skilled mechanic for his automotive shop, more specifically a male mechanic. Shane finds herself going for the interview, with a hundred percent confidence she will get the job. Pride meets Fierce when he does not think she can do the job, nor does he want her to be a part of the business. Wanting to prove the man wrong, and in desperate need for the job, she asks him to allow her to prove her skills and if she does not measure up, she'd resign with immediate effect. With no pay for the work she had done. This is an offer he cannot resist, and thus finds himself taking the offer. What he did not know was that, he had finally met his match. #1 Urban Drama - 07.30.22 #2 poc - 03.23.23 cover by: @xoroyaltywrites

Allure lightly chuckled, "Cmon Moo, you know you don't like girls like me."