in which Titus is getting married and puts his new wife to the test

Got you-and keeping Andrew "Pope" Cody alive actually makes the story *even stronger* for a slow-burn, healing-type arc. I'll write you a Wattpad description that fits your tone: emotional, grounded, and very *Animal Kingdom*. --- They say some people leave. Calla Rhodes never did. Long before prison, before the silence and the distance, Calla was part of the Cody family-trusted, steady, and always there when things fell apart. Janine "Smurf" Cody calls her her own, the boys don't question her place, and to Lena Blackwell, she's more than family-she's home. But once, Calla was something else, too. She was engaged to Pope. They were supposed to have a future. Something outside the chaos. Something real. And then he was taken away before they ever got the chance to finish it. Now he's back. And nothing has changed-except everything. Calla is still there. Still loyal. Still the calm in a house that never learned how to be quiet. But the girl Pope left behind isn't the same one standing in front of him now. She's stronger. Colder. Harder to read. And still the only one who ever understood him. There's no betrayal. No broken family. No one standing in their way. Just time, silence... and everything they never said. Because some things don't end. They just wait. And some loves? They don't fade. They stay. --- Seasons 1-6 Andrew "Pope" Cody x F!OC Content Warning: This story contains mature themes, including strong language, violence, emotional trauma, and sexual content (smut). Reader discretion is advised.

Buffy (age 25) is a long time friend of the Cody family which is a dysfunctional Southern California crime syndicate ruled by matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody. She was close with the family But since she was 18 year old she has a very closer relationship with pope cody who became her friend with lots of Benefits. Warning: this story contains, violence, drugs, alcohol, sextual content, toxicity.

In Oceanside, loyalty is currency-and betrayal, inevitable. Ariella Russo wasn't born a Cody, but she learned fast how to survive like one. Sharp-minded, smoke-eyed, and scarred by loss, she walks into Pope Cody's life as a court-ordered therapist and stays as the only person who ever truly saw him. Together, they're combustible-lover and lifeline, fury and absolution. In a world of blood-stained deals and buried secrets, Ariella rewrites the rules. She's not here to be saved. She's here to outlive them all. ★ Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - an Animal Kingdom reimagining where conscience collides with crime, and the woman in the lion's den might just wear the crown. ★Slow Updates Srryꨄ︎ TNT's ANIMAL KINGDOM SEASONS 2-6

POPE CODY X F. OC In which a med student sees a man wandering at night and can't help her curiosity. OR In which two people who can't sleep become each other's safe place.

Everyone assumes The Kept One stayed with Titus out of fear or misplaced devotion. Titus believes they're fragile, traumatized, dependent - someone who needs protecting. He has no idea they're mirroring him. No idea they're studying him. No idea they're worse. The mansion whispers, and The Kept One listens with a smile. They let Titus unravel under the weight of the curse while they quietly learn how to bend it. Every tremor in the walls, every flicker of the lights, every shadow that moves wrong - they treat it like a lesson. Titus thinks he's the dangerous one in the house. He doesn't realize he's living with someone who stayed not out of love... but out of hunger. And when the truth finally surfaces, it won't be the curse he fears. It'll be them. Y/n story without using y/n

Elizabeth Steele was in her late twenties. She was generally described as calm, composed, compassionate, and fierce when need be. However, nothing could prepare her for the upcoming hunt where she would be forced to endure in her father's place. Or especially what would occur after that. A marriage to Titus Danforth to save her life. Will this unforeseen marriage become more than she bargained for? Perhaps even resulting in her imminent demise? Or, will love blossom where skeletons whither?

Sloane Cross was born into one of the six elite families. Sharp-tongued, emotionally volatile, and secretly exhausted by the role expected of her, Sloane has no interest in becoming another decorative wife trapped inside a gilded cage. So when her family attempts to marry her off to a man she despises, she proposes an alternative: a strategic marriage to Titus Danforth - an older, vicious, unreadable man from another elite family who has spent years avoiding attachment altogether. As their marriage drifts from tactical alliance into obsession, the line between devotion and destruction begins to blur. Because the terrifying thing isn't that Titus understands the darkest parts of her. It's that he loves her anyway.

[Short novel: 44,442 words] On the night of a lavish Danforth wedding, beneath chandeliers and whispered vows, a deadly truth emerges-this family's fortune was never earned. It was promised. To darkness. Ellis McKay arrives to save her sister, only to uncover a legacy bound by blood, sacrifice, and an ancient pact. Before dawn, betrayal shatters innocence, and survival demands an unthinkable choice. As secrets unravel within the gilded halls of the Danforth estate, Ellis realizes the greatest danger is not the devil they serve-but the darkness awakening within herself. And Titus Danforth is watching. Because in this family, love is a bargain, power is eternal, and every marriage comes with a price. Some vows are written in blood.

summary: a council gathering. a woman who finds paintings more interesting than people, and people more interesting than she lets on. and Titus Danforth, who has spent forty-eight years at the top of every room he has ever walked into. someone forgot to tell Hermia Vale that. or rather, she knew, and chose to ignore it. because she simply thought his body was a more interesting altitude. pairing: titus danforth x female!oc rating: explicit, mature / 18+ / minors do not interact! warnings: smut at the end; short mentioning of mental illnesses, dark but kind of funny (i hope?) romance nsfw: oral sex, doggy, nipple play, unprotected sex, some dirty talk, some roughness