"Am I too close?" I whispered, referring to our first conversation. Times were different now, we were different now. I watched as she fluttered her eyes closed, the sound of the music officially become background noise to the tension. It was giving in just as we did. Just as she did. "Maybe I want you to be..." - Blaine's love life is turned upside when she comes across a relentless Delta. Tatted like a notorious gangster, Niy'Asia makes all the effort to show Blaine how much she actually cares, despite constantly having to put her own feelings aside.

Athena Sinclair, 37, is cold, distant and shady. She has her walls are built strong, bricks of secrets and mystery untold. Nobody gets in and she never gets out, especially after finding out that her ex wife cheated for two years of their marriage. What will happen when she stumbles across Rosetta (21), a calm and happy student whose aura only irritates her? How can one person be so full of joy? Or is this a façade? Rosetta puts up a front outside of her home. After her dad died, her family life went down hill. How much is too much and what will happen when prim and proper Rosie begins to fall for her ice queen of a teacher? TW: SA Alcohol abuse Smut/ BDSM Age gap Abuse

She's quiet, shy, and always in her own little world-until the day she finally gets her first job. Freshman-year pediatric nursing major Amani Brooks has always preferred silence over crowds and home over the outside world. Between dorm life she avoids, a busy but loving family, and her twin baby sisters at home, her comfort zone is all she's ever known. But everything shifts when she meets Sierra Hale, the soft-spoken, confident girl who works beside her. Slowly, gently, Amani starts stepping out into life-and into love. A slow-burn WLW romance about a quiet girl learning to open up, make space for herself, and fall in love for the first time.

Seraphina Esposito is a mafia queen.. cold, ruthless, untouchable. At twenty-five she rules an empire built on fear, wielding power like a blade and believing feelings to be nothing but weakness. Love, family, softness.. those are luxuries she's burned out of herself. Or so she thought. Then comes Elowen Morgan. Beautiful. Too emotionally intelligent. Kindhearted. Too pure for a world like hers... and yet, impossible to ignore. With honey-brown eyes that see too much and a quiet defiance behind her smile, she unsettles everything Seraphina thought she knew. Seraphina doesn't do love. But desire? Obsession? The urge to claim what should never have been hers? That, she can't seem to resist. What happens when a woman who feels nothing meets the one person she can't stop feeling?

When Evelyn begins her senior year, the last person she expects to see in her classroom is the mysterious woman she met while working at the diner. Ms. Hartley quickly realizes there's more to Evelyn's life than she lets on, and what begins as concern slowly turns into a bond neither of them expected. But some connections come with consequences-especially when they cross a line that should never be crossed.

𝓐 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓫𝓮𝓽𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓬𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓸 𝓪 𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓰𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓫𝓸𝓽𝓱 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝔀𝓱𝓸.... 𝓣𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓫𝓸𝓽𝓱 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻.. 𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓭𝓸𝓷'𝓽 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓮𝓲𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓑𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓼𝓾𝓹𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓮𝓼

And in that moment, I realized something that I've always known deep down in my heart. I finally understand why my eyes would always cling to him in a room, why my mood would always lighten up whenever he was around, why my world brightened up when I met him- why the sun shined brighter, trees and grass were greener, flowers smelled better. Why he makes my world more beautiful simply by existing in it. It's because I'm in love with him. The type of love that you never knew existed until you finally experience it yourself, the type of love that's hard to put into words because it's a love you've never had for anyone else. And never will. - JAMISON MACK ... And in which, Jamison Mack drunkly kisses his very much in love bestfriend, Hayden Zhang. Shouldn't be much of a problem, they both agree to forget about it. It was a drunken mistake. Nothing more, nothing less. One problem, neither of them can stop thinking about it. What could go wrong? Or in simpler words, a chaotic bisexual pro basketball player who's in love with his playboy footballer bestfriend. highest rankings #1 - interracialbxb #1 - maybesmut #1 - collegebasketball #2 - collegefootball #2 - interracialbxb #3 - lgbtq #3 - interracialbxb #7 - gayromance #13 - interracialbxb

One girl, haunted by demons she never asked for. One girl, holding onto a dream with bleeding hands. One girl, clinging to a life she never was supposed to survive. One girl-and one infuriating woman she was never meant to meet. Aurora Winters, 18, soft-spoken and sweet like spring rain, begins her second last first day of senior year. The wreckage of a car crash last Christmas stole what little safety she had left-leaving her in the bitter care of an aunt who never wanted her and a man who only knows cruelty. Bruised, quiet, alone and unraveling, Aurora is trying to survive the storm. But survival becomes complicated when a certain woman enters the picture. Valentina M. Harlow, 37, new to this part of town, new to the school, old to the weight of the world. Once a sweet girl who ached to be seen, now a woman shaped by silence and cold resolve. Sharp-tongued, guarded, emotionally untouchable, manipulative and entirely disinterested in attachments. She is the oldest daughter who walked away-from blood and businesses, from love, from everything that broke her. It's been seven years since she last let herself feel. And she likes it that way. Until Aurora. What begins as uneasy glances and sharp conversations becomes something far harder to ignore. Valentina sees the pain in the girl's eyes. The bruises beneath the surface. And suddenly, the woman who feels nothing is faced with a choice: walk away as she always has, or reach out-risking everything. This is a tale of longing and danger, where hearts shatter, wounds heal, and reopen. Again and again. A story of two women who were never meant to orbit, yet crash into each other anyway. A story of it all. Of longing that feels like ruin. Of aching that feels like home. Of broken things that refuse to stay broken. A slow unraveling, a dangerous pull. A love that could save-or destroy-them both. Maybe they'll piece themselves back together. And set the world on fire, together.

Brooke is a movie director in Hollywood producing and directing hit after hit movies. Stubborn and bossy, she always gets her way. She views her work as a piece of art, and takes her work very seriously, letting nothing get in the way of her and her career. Charlotte, a famous movie star in Hollywood takes up a role thinking it could just be another score of a movie. Although it is, little did she know the director would soon take an even bigger role in her life. Sweet and charming Charlotte holds a dark past, forcing herself to be someone else for the camera. Never being able to show her true self. When Charlotte finally steps on set of the movie and meets her new director a force they can't deny overrides them. These two different personalities meet and soon reveal secrets ruining people and hearts. The question is, are they willing to do whatever it takes for each other? ------ TW - smut - SA

After a messy year, all Sarah wants is to stay focused. She's 18, in her final year of high school, and determined to stay out of trouble. But things get complicated when she meets her new English teacher, Ms. Miller. Addison Miller is the last person Sarah should be drawn to. She's twice her age, her teacher, recently divorced, and completely off-limits. Strict, unreadable... and somehow, strangely familiar. Sarah knows she shouldn't get involved. But knowing is one thing, wanting is another entirely. Slow burn | Teacher x Student | Age gap