"Unrequited love is a love which is not reciprocated" After losing her mother, Mariah-Marie Johnson moves into her childhood best friend's house. Her best friend, Nathaniel, has an older brother named Silas, who Mariah has been in love with since she can remember. Silas has always been there, in the background, but he's never looked at Mariah the way she looks at him.

𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬. 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐬. Caterina's father is the Don of the Sicilian Mafia, although Cat refuses to be a part of the dangerous lifestyle that comes with it all. After leaving her family and the Mafia behind her, Caterina begins her own life, living peacefully outside of the reach of the Mafia for four years. That changes suddenly as life throws Caterina into the middle of the chaos when the Russian Mafia chooses to strike her family's empire. Placing a bounty on the Sicilian Mafia heir. With her life now at risk, Caterina's father has sent one of his best men to keep her safe and hide her away from the enemy. But there's something off with the tall and dangerous man who has sworn to protect Caterina's life. Can she trust him? Or will the secrets he hides be her undoing? Mature Content Warning | 18+ Please read list of trigger warnings. (This story is complete and can be read as a standalone)

Dario; A dangerous legacy, a life lived at full throttle, and a boy who's been running since the day he could walk. Dario Al Amiri was born with speed in his blood son of a legendary Italian street racer and the heir to the powerful Al Amiri tribal empire. But his childhood was anything but golden. Haunted by family betrayals and a violent past that saw him take a life at just ten years old, Dario learned early that the world respects only two things: power and control. With one piercing blue eye and one hazel-green, long dark hair falling over a face carved in shadows, Dario moves like a storm unpredictable, magnetic, and dangerous. He's a man who knows the rules of survival in a world that eats the weak alive... and bends those rules until they break. When his path collides with someone who should be his enemy or worse, his undoing the speed that once kept him alive might be the very thing that drives him straight into destruction. Lyla; She wasn't looking for danger but danger found her. Lyla has always lived quietly, her world stitched together with small routines and soft silences. A shy, soft-spoken girl with a past she keeps locked behind hesitant smiles, she has learned that blending in is safer than standing out. But safety is a fragile thing one wrong step, one wrong glance, and it shatters. When a twist of fate drops her into Dario Al Amiri's world a world of roaring engines, whispered threats, and power that hums like electricity Lyla finds herself drawn to the one person who could ruin her completely. He's everything she should fear: unpredictable, dangerous, and mercilessly captivating. In his eyes, she's not invisible. And that might be the most dangerous thing of all.