Valentina, a student at Heartfelt University, is assigned to the notoriously rude and cold Professor Montgomery. While the professor's harsh demeanor clashes with Val's quiet and positive nature, their academic sparring soon turns into something deeper. As Val's intelligence and persistence break through Professor Montgomery's icy exterior, a surprising and tender connection begins to bloom. [wlw] [slow burn]

"Evelyn, there's a reason employees aren't close with their bosses If they do their job well, they have to put the corporation first...It's the boss's job to keep them in line, constantly supervise them, and order them around, so it's only natural most people don't like that, and therefore them. Do you understand?" "But we get along, don't we?" I asked tentatively, not trying to give away how much I believed there was something deeper between us. "Most, Evelyn." "I'm sorry I don't follow." "You don't mind being looked after, complying, or put in your place...In fact, I think you like it." ........................................... When the enticing, elegant, confident, woman who caught her eye at the bar turns out to be her boss's boss can she hide the depths of her inappropriate attraction?

Given away, neglected and then taken back. Sawyers's life takes a one-eighty when she goes from living on the streets to living with one of Hollywood's biggest stars. How is Sawyer supposed to forgive and forget when she can barely even think about her past? Some talk of abuse Started: 26/05/22 Finished: 19/07/22

𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 /ˈ𝘭ɪ𝘮ɪ𝘯ə𝘭/ adjective existing in the quiet interval before change, where nothing has ended, but everything feels about to. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴, 𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸. Brothers/Family

The Queen didn't rush her. She simply stood, close enough that the assistant felt her attention like a hand tightening around her throat. "You keep saying he's dangerous," the Queen said calmly. "It doesn't scare me." Her fingers closed around the assistant's wrist, pressing it flat against the desk. "Do you know what he does?" "I... this is a mistake," the assistant whispered, trembling. "A mistake is thinking your body lies to me," the Queen said. Her grip tightened command, not pain. "Look at you," she continued. "Shaking. Pulse frantic. Mouth opening like you're about to beg." "I belong to him," the assistant stammered. "No," the Queen said softly. "You were assigned to him." Her free hand moved to the assistant's throat not choking, just claiming. "Men like him confuse ownership with fear. I don't." Her thumb pressed. The assistant gasped. "I don't take what doesn't respond. And you-" Her lips brushed the ear. "-are responding beautifully." "I can't... if he finds out-" "He will. Eventually," the Queen interrupted. Her fingers moved lower. "That you weren't stolen. That you walked." She kissed her hard, claiming, silencing protest. Dominance. Erasing the shadow of him. "You're not innocent," the Queen murmured. "You're starving. I don't save women like you. I ruin them for every cage they've ever known." "Tell me to stop," she said. Stop. The word hovered. It never came. The Queen smiled slow, victorious. "Once I touch you, he doesn't get you back. Not loyalty. Not fear. Not nights. You don't belong to me. But you will never belong to him again." The door stayed closed. The assistant let herself fall.

Adelynn "Addie" Parker is fourteen and just trying to get through school in New York City while keeping everything else in her life from quietly falling apart. At home, things feel heavy and complicated in ways she doesn't fully know how to explain, and school becomes the only place that feels steady. That is where she meets Mrs Johansson, an English teacher who notices what others miss and seems to understand Addie in a way no one else does. What begins as small moments after class slowly turns into something Addie relies on more than she expected: a sense of being seen, heard, and safe. As the school year moves toward its end, Addie finds herself struggling with change, attachment, and the fear of losing the one place that has come to feel like home. Growing up was never meant to feel like this complicated, and letting go turns out to be harder than she imagined.

Raylen is Travis' younger sister and the first woman to ever co run the chiefs along with Andy Reid. But something spectacular happens when her eyes lock with Taylor Swift's for the first time. Almost feeling like love at first sight. Or maybe forbidden love? How will she tell her older brother who adores her, that she fell in love with the same woman he fell for, by accident?

Three years ago, she vanished from the BAU without a word-her badge stripped, her name buried, her past sealed behind prison walls. No one ever learned why. Now she's free. With her sentence served and her record still shrouded in silence, the FBI makes her an offer no one else would dare: her old position at the Behavioral Analysis Unit. The team she left behind isn't sure whether to trust her, fear her, or pretend she was never gone at all. And she's not sure she deserves the second chance. As new cases blur the line between right and wrong, the secrets that put her behind bars begin to surface-threatening her freedom, her future, and the fragile trust she's trying to rebuild. Some profiles never leave you. And some mistakes refuse to stay buried.

Fifteen-year-old Mavis has grown up in a home where chaos is normal. Her mother lost to alcohol, her father ruled by anger. Staying invisible has always been her way of surviving. But when she's assaulted, that silence is broken, and her life is pulled into the spotlight of an investigation. As detectives dig deeper, they uncover not just a crime, but a pattern of neglect and fear-forcing Mavis to confront the truth she's spent years trying to hide.

"I love you, it's ruining my life." For thirteen-year-old Aurora, life is a repetitive cycle of flickering fluorescent lights, the smell of floor wax, and the crushing silence of the Lavender Orphanage. As a shy, invisible orphan in the heart of London, her only escape is the music of Taylor Swift. When the Eras Tour hits Wembley Stadium in August 2024, Aurora knows the Smiths will never buy her a ticket. They call it a fantasy; she calls it a mission. With nothing to lose and a heart full of desperation, Aurora crafts a plan to sneak into the final night of the tour. But when a post-concert security chase leads to a literal collision with the woman who saved her life through a pair of headphones, Aurora's world shifts on its axis. A story of fate, healing, and the realization that sometimes, your idols don't just see you-they choose you. [Taylor Swift Adoption Story]