"Who's the bastard's father?" His voice was cold. Controlled. His eyes flicked briefly to the paper clutched in her hands before locking onto her face with an intensity that made her stomach drop. Emilia couldn't meet his gaze. Fear rooted her in place. After all, he was the only man she had ever been with. "Answer me, Emilia," he demanded, his voice rising just enough to make it sting. She squeezed her eyes shut, releasing a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding. "Our family is waiting for us," she said weakly, grasping for escape. Marcello cursed under his breath and dragged a hand through his hair. Then, without warning, he stepped forward and gripped her shoulders, as his restraint snapped. "Answer me," he shouted. A tear slipped down her pale cheek as her voice faltered. "I... it's-" Her chest tightened, lungs burning as the truth pressed against her throat. "It's yours." For a split second, she waited. Hoped. Some foolish part of her still believed he might soften-might recognize the weight of what she'd just given him. Instead, he stepped closer, crowding her space, forcing her to tilt her head back to meet his glare. Emilia's breath caught involuntarily. His eyes were cold, unyielding, stripped of anything human. A far cry from the man who took her breathe away twelve weeks ago. "You're a liar." *** After catching her boyfriend cheating, Emilia Rene makes a reckless decision to shed more than just her heartbreak. One alcohol-fueled night with a stranger changes her life forever leaving her pregnant. A few months later, fate throws her back into the path of the devilishly charming Italian billionaire, Marcello Dell'Amore . And the interesting part he's now her stepbrother.

A Good Girl's Guide To Being Naughty • • • Ivy Collins is a normal 21 y/o woman. Except for the fact she's a virgin ... or at least she was until she had sex with her university rivals hockey captain. After a quick (devastatingly quick) night with the man and being called a lousy lay, Ivy made a promise to herself that she wouldn't do it again ... sex that is. Who needs sex when all it brought was insecurities and more, and it wasn't even that good to begin with. Enter Asher Hudson, Ice Hockey captain, her brothers best friend and her best friends brother - triple trifecta of why she shouldn't get involved with him. But when he overhears a conversation Ivy has with her best friend, he gives her an offer she can't refuse. Well, she can, and she should, but why would she want to? Three months, she helps him with his grades, and he'll help her with her sex life. Only one rule, don't fall in love. Easy, right? He'll teach her everything she wants to know, and show her that sex can be fun, you just have to know how to do it right. And Ivy should refuse, after all he's the Ice Hockey captain, her brother's best friend and her best friend's brother - but what's the fun in that. Ivy knows she should say no, but she won't. And she won't fall in love, she can't. ••• Completed • First Draft - Edited. Watty2025 winner #1 in #Romance #1 in #Brotherbestfriend #2 in #bestfriendsbrother #2 in #icehockey

💔 Where It Hurts to Stay (Wren Callahan & Leo Montgomery - Book Four in The Hurt Series) She met him before she knew who he was. Then she sat down in his classroom. And everything changed. Wren Callahan doesn't believe in happy endings. Not after her mom spiraled-again. Not after she left L.A. for Denver to live with her brother Dean, trying to finish her senior year without falling apart. She's sharp-tongued, political, impossible to cage- a girl made of wildfire learning how to survive her own sparks. Then there's Leo Montgomery- twenty-one, brilliant, too passionate for his own good. A first-year teacher who still looks more like a heartbreak in denim than authority in a tie. Too young to be cynical. Too idealistic to see the danger coming. When they meet, he's just the stranger who challenges her beliefs, matches her bite for bite, and makes her pulse forget how to behave. She doesn't know he teaches. He doesn't know she's still a student. Their spark is instant. Their chemistry-disaster dressed up as destiny. And when Wren walks into her new classroom and finds him standing there-sleeves rolled, eyes locked on hers every rule that's supposed to save them starts to burn. He's her teacher. She's the revolution he never saw coming. A forbidden, slow-burn, age-gap romance about crossing lines, defying expectations, and falling for the one person you were never meant to love. 🔥 18+ Mature Content Warning 🔥 Contains explicit scenes, underage drinking, and a forbidden teacher-student romance between consenting characters (legal age of consent observed).