"Run, little lamb. Before I fuck you." ~~~~~ Luna Ayre seemed to have the worst luck in existence... haven been wed to an abusive jerk who silenced her cries with pain... and now she couldn't speak. But once she was finally free of him, she found herself falling into another monster's web, and his cage could never be opened. He was a killer, a player, a stalker. He captured her the very night she left her husband... and then he let her go. But little did she know, he hid in the shadows everywhere she went. He wanted to watch her, study her, grow obsessively possessive over her, kill anyone who touched her. So he waited two years, he, her shadow, kept waiting. Waiting patiently to destroy her. To eat his lamb alive.

Valeria didn't rush. She never did. Inez was pinned beneath her, wrist locked overhead, the hold precise and impersonal. Not pain. Control. Inez scoffed anyway. "That's it?" she sneered. "I've had tutors scarier than you." Valeria said nothing. The silence pressed in. "You don't scare me," Inez added, louder. Brattier. "You just-" "Enough." One word. Flat. Final. Valeria lifted Inez's chin with two fingers, detached as a correction. "Look at me," she said coolly. "If you're going to embarrass yourself, do it properly." Inez laughed, brittle. "You think this makes you powerful?" "I don't think," Valeria replied. "I decide." Her gaze never wavered. "You provoke because it's the last control you have." "I don't belong to you," Inez snapped. Valeria leaned in, voice razor-thin. "You are my wife. You belong to consequences." She released her grip. "Say it." "No." Valeria waited. The quiet broke Inez, she hated being ignored. "...I'll behave, I'll be a good girl" Inez muttered. "Specify." Inez swallowed hard. "...I'll be your good girl" Valeria stepped back, already distant. "Good," she said. "Remember why." #1 older women-13th February (FAST PACE BOOK)

"You refuse to speak because you think your voice is a curse, Butterfly. A poison that destroys everything it touches. So poison me. Whisper their names, and I will gladly show you how a real monster burns the world to ash just to keep you warm. You think you are trapped in the dark with a psychopath, papillon. You don't realize I am just waiting for your command." - Nikolai de Rivel ____ To Leah, silence is the only armor she has left. Deaf, traumatized, and terrified of physical touch, she just wants to survive Ardencrest University without being seen. When she completely ignores the school's most dangerous French heir on her first day, she thinks she safely avoided a predator. She has no idea she just gave the Reaper Prince a puzzle he is dying to take apart. Behind his polite smiles and lethal elegance, Nikolai de Rivel is an empty-eyed psychopath who demands absolute, psychological control. He doesn't just want to claim her body; he wants to conquer her mind. Leah thinks the campus is naturally parting for her; she doesn't know Nikolai is viciously destroying anyone who steps too close. She thinks she is finally finding peace in the shadows; she doesn't know he is meticulously rewriting her entire reality so she has no choice but to crave his touch. He doesn't want to hide her from the monsters of her past. He wants to drag her into the dark, place her on his lap, and teach her how to rule it. He is the devil. And her rare voice is his trigger. ______ "The Reaper Prince | 18+" is the third book in the Princes of Ardencrest Series. {Can be read as a standalone}

𝐂𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐒, renowned CEO and entrepreneur. Ruthlessness was all she knew after her first love disappeared without a trace. Worst of it all was she was carrying his child, who turned out to be more of a blessing than a curse. Celeste worked her way around the single mother life and built an empire at the feet of her daughter. As time passed over, she never anticipated the return of her lover, the father of her daughter. Does he deserve a second chance? Will Celeste ever forgive him for leaving? 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐗𝐄𝐑

Mack was raised in the biker life. Growing up with a biker club president for a dad made him want to do something different with his life so he joined the military. When comes back he becomes his best friends VP. Eden's brother was the president of the Southern Steel motorcycle club. She has been hanging around the club since she was 8 years old. With an abusive alcoholic dad and absent mom, the club basically raised her and her brother. When Eden was young she had a crush on Mack, her brother's best friend. She realized when she got older that was a stupid childhood fantasy, and she needed to get over it. Mack would always see her as the little sister. His loss!

"𝐓𝐨 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬" "𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫, 𝐦𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐬" "𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐦𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞."

In which the new manager has to deal with the stubborn and lustful star player of the basketball team.

☄︎ ⋆·˚ ⋆ *. ⇒ 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐈 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 When Dustin was eleven years old his sister walked out on him, stealing his dad with her. Lost childhoods and neglect littered his life like the bottles of wine his mother spilt with her depression, divorce and general lack of interest. No one really knows Rory Henderson but no one really likes her very much either. The bitch who left Dustin on his own, the slut who allegedly slept with half the school. She became a memory, half a dream until suddenly in 1985 she came back. Why? Problem is no one knows. Dustin Henderson hates his sister more than he hates anyone in the world. She ruined everything, she took his childhood, she changed his life and forced him to grow up years too fast. Everyone should hate Dustin's sister but for some unexplainable reason, Steve Harrington does not.

Thalia Munson was adopted when she was ten years old. Her memories before that are non-existent and the memories she's made since have been of someone else - a new person that she created in order to exist. She couldn't remember her name, a face or a place, but she knew one word. One that she had repeated for weeks. Two. A number. Fitting in is easy. It's being yourself while trying to fit in that is hard. Thalia has never attempted to be a popular girl nor to fall for the popular guys, but when her best friend, Nancy Wheeler, starts dating the King of Hawkins High, things are bound to, and will, change. Evil is rising in Hawkins and Thalia is unknowingly one of the largest parts of it. Not knowing anything about who you are used to be is safe. Because if you don't know, then how can anyone else? Secrets can't stay hidden forever and soon 'yourself' will find it's way to the surface. What happens then? Steve Harrington x OC Stranger Things (Season 1 - 4) BOOK 1