England 1981, before smartphones, GPS, and digital footprints. You're trying to settle into the cozy freshman routine of international university life, taking a job at the campus library where you archive books and organize shelves. But you don't realize that you've become someone else's archive... and what happens when you're listed in more than one catalogue...? ( yanderes!M x F!reader ) | A cozy, unsettling slow burn story.

𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑. 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨. ────୨ৎ──── "Please let me go. I don't want this." Her voice was low and tired as tears flowed down her porcelain cheeks. His arms loosened their grip around her trembling body as his thumb stroked her tear stained cheek. "You are mine darling. My precious Rosie, forgive me but I can't ever let you go. You belong to me forever." ────୨ৎ──── Rosaline Marlowe is a only daughter. She had everything she ever desired - loving parents, her best friend Sammy and her cat Milo. But what happens when she come across a man she wasn't supposed to meet? 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆. ────୨ৎ────

Why Choose When You Have Three Already Coming in a Set? Starr Sloane has spent six years being relentlessly fine. After a car crash stole her entire family at eighteen, she learned to smile through grief, pour coffee with steady hands, and keep the hollow place in her chest hidden behind freckles and optimism. Her mother named her Starr because she was supposed to shine bright-even in the dark. So she did. Until she didn't. One drunken night, one bad decision, and one sidewalk later, she wakes up in the backseat of a stranger's car. The stranger has a scar that runs like silver lightning down his face, tattoos of black roses climbing his neck, and eyes that look at her like she's already something he's decided to keep. His name is Blaine. He doesn't come alone. Emerson-wicked smile, pierced, dangerous charm. Preston-quiet storm, sharp words, sharper hands. Three men. One unbreakable set. They say she's theirs now. They say they've been waiting for someone exactly like her to fall into the middle of their closed circle. Starr doesn't know how to belong to anyone-let alone three dangerous, obsessive men who live in shadows and deal in blood. She doesn't know how to let herself be wanted without waiting for the moment it all disappears. But they're patient. They're relentless. And when rival hands finally reach for her-when they bruise her, film her, try to break her-they show exactly what happens when you touch what belongs to them. Through trauma, through tears, through slow mornings and desperate nights, Starr learns something she thought she'd forgotten: She doesn't have to shine alone anymore. She can be held. She can be loved. She can be whole. Even if her light flickers. Even if the dark tries to take her again. Because this time, three men have decided the entire city can burn before they let her fall. Why choose... when the set already chose you?

**16+ ONLY** This story contains dark romance, heavy possessiveness, violence, obsession, and explicit content. *"Try speaking to her again-and I'll bury your tongue with my bullets. > Touch her, and I'll make sure your mother can't recognize your corpse."* --- He is a walking nightmare wrapped in silk suits and bloodstained hands. The name **Luca** is enough to silence a room. King of the Underworld. Ruler of shadows. A ghost even the law refuses to chase. His empire is built on violence, betrayal, and bodies no one dares to count. He does not speak twice. He does not leave witnesses. Mercy died the day he first picked up a gun. He is cruel to the world. He is lethal to anyone who looks at her too long. And for her... he becomes something almost gentle. Almost human. Almost soft. Almost. --- She is softness in a world that never deserved her. **Lily** is light-pure, untouched, and blissfully unaware of the darkness waiting just beyond her little bubble. She believes in morning coffee, quiet laughter, and happy endings. She still thinks love is supposed to be kind. Until he decides she belongs to him. And the moment someone dares to lay a finger on her, Luca does not simply arrive. He brings war. She becomes his obsession. His addiction. His only reason to keep breathing-and the only reason he is willing to burn the entire world to ash. There is no escape from his grip. No hiding from his gaze. No running from the twisted fate that has already claimed her. But what happens when the angel starts falling for the demon? What happens when she begins to see the fractured, dangerous good buried beneath all that blood? She was never supposed to love him. He was never supposed to let her live long enough to try. Now neither of them has a choice. --- **#1 in Kidnapped** **#56 in Bad Boy × Good Girl** **#58 in Possessive** **#1 in lovable**

"𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺? 𝘥𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘰' '𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘺, 𝘐'𝘥 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘵𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯', 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘭' 𝘶𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦." "𝘉𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴𝘵." "𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘪'𝘮 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘰𝘳 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴." --- They would ooze rumours of both you're name, placed with the utterly specific adjectives, 'deranged', 'psychotic', and simply 'sick'. That was what you were known for, context or not. It was a simple way of living. Within the red-dirt town of Sandrange, with little entertainment and a harbour of saloon-goers in need of any form of amusement, this made you a target whether you liked it or not. Although, not unfamiliar with the wording, it's both the eyes of their burning scowls and the words that spit like fire from their tongue's that become something you can never get used to. So, you never left home. Cacooned in your home for weeks to months on end, all to hide from the town and the prejudice they willingly held, this torturous routine had only been broken by the two knocks on my door, and the call of the Sheriff requesting to come inside. ---

Silent chains An Obedient Girl. A Dangerous Man. A Silence Too Loud to Ignore. Aarya has never spoken a word. A twenty one year old Born mute and forbidden by her cruel family to learn sign language, her life has always been quiet - not peaceful, but silenced. Hidden away in an attic, unloved and abused while her stepsister is pampered like royalty, Aarya's only survival tool is obedience. She never questions, never resists... until one night, fate places her in the wrong place at the worst time. She witnesses a brutal murder committed by the city's most feared mafia boss, Luca De Rossi - a twenty eight year old man known for leaving no witnesses alive. But when he finds her cowering in fear, trembling and tear-streaked, he spares her life. Barely. A story of forced proximity, power and vulnerability, slow-burning connection, and a girl who can't speak... but says everything without words. ---