"𝐘𝐨𝐮'𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐞, 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞-𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐞." 𝓘𝓷 𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓱 𝓪 𝓼𝓽𝓾𝓫𝓫𝓸𝓻𝓷 𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵 𝓲𝓰𝓷𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓪𝓷 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓭𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓫𝓸𝔂. 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐳𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬... 𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨~ -A Maze Runner fanfiction -Enemies to Lovers -Close proximity -One bed -Slow burn - Bodyguard vibes

College football star Reid Donahue's comeback is documented by sports media head Jo Lawrence, but as sparks fly between them, Jo must navigate both her career ambitions and growing attraction to the reserved athlete. *** When college football superstar Reid Donahue is ready for a comeback following a gruesome injury, the university tasks their head of sports media for a season-long piece on Reid's return to glory. Jo Lawrence knows that doing this piece is her in for a post-grad job at ESPN and is determined to make her way through a notoriously male-dominated industry. But Reid - reserved and withdrawn since his injury - is making things difficult for Jo at every turn...including the wind sprints her heart seems to do every time he looks at her across the football field. *** [2024 WATTY WINNER] [Wattpad HQ pick January 2025 & June-July 2025] [6x featured story] [18+] Copyright 2023-2025 | Taylor Romagnoli [moonraess]

The knife kissed his throat-cold and very precise. ❝Don't move,❞ Morgana's voice said behind him. ❝Not a muscle.❞ Sage froze. He felt her breath at his nape, warm against the blade's promise.She knew exactly where to place a blade. ❝How did you get out of your room?❞ he asked calmly. ❝Step forward.❞ He obeyed. She guided him through the narrow corridor, backing him against stone, trapping him there. The knife pressed closer now-close enough to hurt. ❝Drop your sword.❞ It hit the floor. ❝You're going to get me out,❞ she said. ❝Out of your reach. I don't care where you send me-as long as I never have to see Procris Saxon again.❞ Sage smiled faintly. ❝And why would I do that?❞ The blade bit, just barely. ❝Because if you don't,❞ she said, ❝I finish what I started.❞ Silence coiled between them. Then Sage moved. In a breath, the knife was his. Her back met stone. His forearm blocked her escape, the blade resting beneath her jaw. ❝You bastard,❞ she hissed. ❝Careful,❞ Sage said softly. ❝Any movement, and this becomes... unfortunate.❞ Her pulse fluttered wildly beneath the knife. He felt it. She knew he did. ❝Do it,❞she said. ❝You've wanted to since the day we met.❞ Sage leaned closer,Their eyes locked. ❝Tell me,❞.he said slowly , dangerously,.❝why I shouldn't.❞ *** Power is never inherited cleanly. It is taken-by fire, by blood, by betrayal. Sage Saxon, High Marshal of Wein, is the Queen's most loyal weapon-and her most dangerous liability. What he does not have is freedom.And Morgana Hawthorne is nothing but a pawn to get that freedom -THE CROWN.Or at least that's what Sage thought. Morgana of Bellorophen wants none of this. But when survival demands a contract sealed in vows,she has no option but to marry the man she vowed to kill. Their marriage was designed to end. strategic , temporary, and controlled. Love, unfortunately, does not follow design.

She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation. *** In a world swallowed by the Ever-Dark, Iva Vernigora is nothing more than a lowly servant in the house of the cruel Voivode Yakub Ivanov, Duke of Highroot. But when Voivode blackmails her with the lives of her parents, Iva is forced to pretend she's his daughter, as she infiltrates the royal academy of magic - Kolegium. Voivode Yakub's order is absolute: poison the Prince Konstantin Veliki. Prince Konstantin is the heir to the throne, the last of the line of Dragons - a Zmey warrior of light, who was blessed with a dragon-shifting gift. At a first glance, he is nothing but a smug, pompous royal, and everything Iva is supposed to hate. Yet every touch, and every shared lesson at Kolegium blurs the line between the enemy she must kill and the man she is beginning to crave. While Iva stalks her prey as a knife in the dark, waiting for the chance to extinguish Konstantin's light, she discovers that the dragon everyone fears is the only thing standing between humanity and the void. As the Ever-Dark Shades rise, Iva must make an impossible choice. Will she carry out her sinister orders and secure her parents' freedom, or will she stand by the Dragon in the battle for the world's last light? *** The Shades are coming. The Dragons are falling. And the Eternal Spark is waiting for its host. © 2026 EvelynHail Exclusively on Wattpad Based on prompts: 97. "When the world slips into endless darkness, something begins to move in the shadows and you must find a way to survive in a night that never ends." 4. "You discover that the dragon everyone fears is in danger, and you are the only one who can save it from the knight sworn to slay it ."

Vivienne Kingsley is not a nice person. She knows it. Everyone else knows it. And frankly, it's been working out great for her. As the reigning It Girl of campus, Vivienne enjoys power, popularity, and the kind of fear that makes people laugh at jokes that aren't funny. Enter Theo Carter - a painfully low-key medical student who wants nothing more than to survive school unnoticed. One argument between them should've meant nothing. Instead, it breaks the universe. Overnight, Vivienne becomes invisible, and Theo becomes inexplicably popular. Phones buzz. Eyes linger. Luck switches sides. And somehow, Vivienne Kingsley is now the nobody. With her life in free fall and her sanity hanging by a thread, Vivienne must navigate a world where her name no longer opens doors - and where the one person who can help her hates her guts.

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A man claimed by the devil. A woman claimed by no one. Until him. 𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐎 is a monster. His family relies on him to torture and kill. It's his birthright, curse, and the most delicious punishment for a gluttonous sinner. He's no stranger to violence and depravity. Soldier of the Romano crime family, he might be stranger to everything else. 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐒𝐄 is an outcast, the hidden gem of the Genovese crime family, shunned by her father and forgotten by the world. She's utterly alone, until she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Kidnapped by the man with dark eyes, tattoos, and a soul to match. And he isn't planning on letting her go. The deviant killer with the angelic name, her intended torturer, the devil of the underground. Santo is quickly becoming something to Nina that seems impossible, something that neither of them are ready for. She threatens to uproot everything he's always known and been, and when secrets are revealed, when demons come out to play, it's not only a matter of how willing Santo and Nina are to salvage something that seems to be the only beautiful corner of both their worlds. It's a matter of whether any kind of beauty can survive in a world so dark. ✚ Dark Saint is a slow burn, enemies to lovers, dark mafia romance with mature content and dark themes. Read at your own discretion. [ Book 1 in the Romano Brotherhood Series | COMPLETED ✔ ] Featured on @Romance Featured on @StoriesUndiscovered

Iqra Sheikh I don't know when I started loving him. Our marriage was never meant to be-it was an obligation, a bond neither of us wanted. But somewhere along the way, he became my solace, my longing, my home. Even knowing he would never look at me with love, even knowing I was just a name beside his, I couldn't stop my heart from beating for him. Muhammad Rayan Pathan "You are nothing but a replacement for her." His words were a dagger to her heart. "I will never love you. Don't expect care or affection from me. The only thing I can offer you is respect and a place in my room." But fate had other plans... Two strangers bound by duty. Two hearts resisting an undeniable pull. They never wanted each other, yet somehow, they became each other's world. As their paths intertwine, will love find a way? Will they surrender to destiny or fight against it? Their fate changed once... will it change again? But a twist is coming soon ,,, now what gonna happened who is the main manipulator here ,,,, wants to know then read the book .... A greatest twist of the book soon to be come ...💋 ✨ A story of love, longing, and a destiny written in fire and silk. ✨ © All rights reserved.

What if forever started as a lie? Fame looks beautiful from a distance, full of bright lights, loud applause, and a life everyone believes must be perfect. Yet behind the spotlight, even the brightest stars learn how heavy constant attention can feel, and how carefully the truth must be hidden to survive it. Jhalak Sharma steps into that world to protect Raghbir Oberoi, determined to stop a scandal from tearing everything apart while reminding herself that her place in his life was never meant to last. It should have remained simple and professional, but some choices quietly grow into something larger than the moment they were made in. What begins as damage control slowly turns into something fragile, something dangerous, something neither of them ever planned for. Because behind the cameras and practiced smiles she becomes the only one who sees the man he hides from the world. She has admired him from afar like millions of others, a truth she was never meant to carry this close to her heart, and he never expected the person standing beside him in his worst moment to become the one he cannot imagine losing. This is a story about the life that exists when the cameras stop rolling, about feelings that were never part of the agreement, and about two people discovering that love becomes far more complicated when the world believes it already owns you. Because sometimes the hardest place to love someone... is right under the spotlight.

Nothing prepares you for heartbreak that lands only hours before your wedding. One moment you are celebrating the last hours of single life, smiling at a future you trust. The next, you are staring at proof that the man you love has betrayed you. He says he is sorry. He pleads. Yet the picture of love you held so tightly fractures in an instant. Sports agent Fiorella Barella has more than one truth to uncover, and with her closest friends beside her, she is ready to pull at every thread until the whole story unravels.