All she could ever want is to be shown the love and care of a family to know that someone has her back through it all. However she is instead met with a date that wasn't created by her own hands when she ends up being brought up by her abusive step father,pain and turmoil is all she knows. Hiding her feelings away from the world allowing each step to drag her away from her own existence.Just when she's about to give up and her demons have her at her wits end her step father dies in a tragic accident. Knowing she would be alone seemed to give her a clearer light and a new beginning just as she found her ray of light her "biological family" finds her. Will they be there every step of the way or will they cast her out. Let the tale of family be unfolded and the truth be told. ɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞɞ CURRENTLY BEING EDITED!!!! Best Ranking🦋 #1 Abused #1 Faith #2 Fictional characters #3 Abuse #1 Nolove #13 Family #19 Depression #37 Anxiety #47 Mafia

Cleo Winters has learned to survive by staying quiet. At school, she's invisible, bullied and ignored. At home, she tiptoes around her mother's sharp moods and cruel words, never knowing when kindness will turn into punishment. But when her mother announces a sudden move to London to marry a wealthy businessman named Eric Westwood, Cleo's silent life is shattered. Thrown into a family she's never met, surrounded by strangers who live in luxury while she carries scars no one can see, Cleo must navigate a new house, a new country, and a new set of rules.

Four years in a basement. One mother who wasn't his. Five brothers who are- men built from shadows and secrets, running an organization the world fears. As the police rescue Noah, he learns the truth-- the woman who raised him was not his beloved mother but a 'monster' in sheep clothing, While the monsters he was taught to fear... are his family. Now freedom feels colder than the dark and love sounds like another painful lie. (Once a week update)

Nova was only 2 years old when she was kidnapped from her family. She has 5 older brothers and her biological parents are dead. What happens when her eldest brother gets a call from the police station saying his sister is alive and found? What happens when Nova isn't just at that police station because her supposed parents are dead? When both sides are hiding secrets from one another, where is the trust? Will Nova get a chance at true happiness? Or will her past continue to haunt her in a different form? Will she ever experience a love that you could only imagine in your head? Or will she be stuck, drowning in her misery deep in a hole that she was pushed into after someone dug it up for her? Read Unraveling Secrets to find out ;)

Athena always thought she was alone. She always blamed the world for all the scars, the tears, the heartache, and most importantly, the loneliness. However, when she moves to another city with her 'parents' , she not only feels a certain warmth and attachment to the city, but also to the random brothers at the private school she is attending. Unknowingly, she has filled a spot in the brothers' cold hearts. She reminds the brothers of someone they lost and could possibly bring light into the dark corners they have been seeking refuge from.

Aurelia and Elara - the youngest twins and the only daughters of the De Santis family - were once the heart of their household. Inseparable, gentle, adored. Where one went, the other followed. Their parents cherished them. Their brothers protected them. But everything shattered the night eight-year-old Elara was found bleeding on the floor... and Aurelia stood over her, a knife in her hand. Blamed for a crime she didn't commit, Aurelia was sent away to a strict boarding school for "troubled children." Her parents believed discipline would straighten her out. What they never imagined was the truth - the cruelty hidden behind the school's walls, the sadistic methods used to "teach," and the horrors Aurelia was forced to endure. Now sixteen, after a devastating incident inside that school, Aurelia is brought back to the De Santis mansion. But it's not a homecoming. It's an obligation. A reminder that she is unwanted, distrusted, and viewed as a threat by the very family she once loved. Follow Aurelia as she relearns how to exist in a home that no longer feels like hers. Uncover the truth of what happened that night, what really happened to her within the school, and whether the De Santis family will ever face the truth of what Aurelia had to endure and do to survive. ─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ─── "What should I ache for? The childhood that slipped away? The silence that became my companion? Or the pieces of myself that I will never get back? Maybe pain isn't a phase-- it's just who I am." ─── ･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ─── "How many graves will I need, to bury everything that died inside of me?" ❁Naya Aknis❁

After Mara's mother dies in a drunk-driving accident, Rowan Calloway learns he has a five-year-old daughter he never knew existed. Overnight, his life and his family's life changes. His siblings discover they have a young niece who was kept hidden from them, tucked away and largely forgotten. Mara grew up neglected, learning early how to stay quiet and out of the way. A previous car crash left her partially deaf and she was born blind in one eye. Her hearing was never treated and never known. By the time Rowan brings her home, Mara has already learned to navigate a world that isn't catered to her. She learns to not ask for help, and Rowan has no idea how much of the world she can't fully see or hear. As Rowan tries to step into the role of a father he never expected to be, he struggles to understand a child who doesn't react the way he thinks she should. Misunderstandings pile up, love feels clumsy, and everyone is learning in real time how to communicate, how to slow down, and how to listen better, sometimes without realizing that they don't need to just listen. They need to feel.

He thought he was saving her. He was handing her to the wolves. Ten years ago, the eldest Sokolov brother made a desperate choice to protect his baby sister from the bloodbath of a mafia war. He paid her mother a fortune to take her far away and keep her safe, believing that a mother would do everything for their child. It was a secret he kept from his five brothers-a promise of protection that was supposed to be her salvation. But the money wasn't enough to buy a mother's love. Instead of safety, their sister was sold to the highest bidder-discarded into an abusive household where she spent a decade surviving a nightmare her brothers never knew existed. Now, ten years later, the truth has surfaced, and the girl they traded away has been found. She isn't the innocent child they remember. She is a hollowed-out survivor who looks at her brothers not as heroes, but as the men who paid for her disappearance. The Sokolov circle is finally whole again, but as the six brothers move to burn the world down for what was done to her, they must face the most brutal truth of all: The seventh scar was carved by their own hands.

Sierra Esposito knew three things well. One- People were inherently evil and selfish. Two- Words are what got you hurt. Three- Sometimes it was easier to accept the situation, rather than fight back. These three rules got her through life-- not unscathed, but alive. Even when she didn't want to be. ... Giuseppe De Santis had been searching for his missing daughter, ever since she was taken all those years ago. When he finally gets the phonecall saying she's been found, he's ecstatic. Finally happy that everything can go back to the way it used to be. But Sierra has changed since she was a baby and she knows nothing of him and his world. And when she isn't speaking to him or her brothers, it's almost impossible to get her to open up. They must learn to be a family again, but that's almost impossible. There are so many secrets between them and other factors are at play. Factors that are determined to get Sierra back, no matter who gets hurts. ... TW* This story has mentions/depictions of assault (physical, sexual, mental, etc), alcohol abuse, drug abuse, self-harm, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, violence, and anything else falling under those categories. Please prioritize your mental health. *Any images in the cover and/or chapters are not mine. I found them on Pinterest* *I own all the rights to these characters. Please do not pirate my work*

Bianca Ricci's life has been hell. Having been taken away from the rest of her family when she was two, and reuniting with her father and brothers at 16, she's been through a lot. 15 years of abuse has turned her into something no one can recognize, and the secrets being hidden in the family are bound to surface. Bianca knows she'll never be her family's little girl. She knows that at some point along the way, she lost herself. She'll never be who she once was. She'll always be lost in the aftermath. ✧*⁺˚*☆ "Why can't you just trust me?!" "Because trust is dangerous!" I respond icily, "Trust ruined my family. It has never gotten me anywhere..." The silence is deafening, "And I'm not gonna let it ruin my life again." . . . Updates every Sunday