When two troubled past collide, you will either get a new beginning or a new world of chaos. Benjiman Cartier Gotti & Layton Iman Westbrooks take the world they once knew & the cards they'd been dealt, and try their hand at creating a new world together. Both with a past full of trauma, trials, and tribulations that they've tried to keep away from the other, will they succeed? The two try their best at growing from their past to make a better life for their futures, but at what cost? Will the two ever just get to be together without constraint? Against every odd, will they get to just live in pure happiness without their dark past getting in the way? Vanessa Wright | Copyright ©️ 2022 | All Rights Reserved Author: Vanessa W. | Cover: _tolerated & Vanessa W. NOT A FAN FICTION. NOT A STAND-ALONE, MUST READ BOOK ONE "Against All Odds" BEFORE PROCEEDING.

I'm writing this book with a clear goal in mind. My goal in inspiring you is to touch your heart with that tiny spark capable of starting the fire, burning all your weaknesses. Why do you think that this is an impossible goal? Why do you keep thinking that it is impossible to be happy in your way? Why does your mind keep putting obstacles on your path? If you keep poisoning yourself how can you free yourself from this mental slavery? I'm not telling you that this will be easy because it won't. That is one more reason for you to fight, to stay strong fighting for what you believe. Don't let yourself down. However, I can't decide for you. You have to decide for yourself and make your decision. You have to choose now!

I SAID NO is a bold, heartfelt, and surprisingly funny journey through the chaos of people-pleasing, the sting of betrayal, the beauty of unexpected love, and the power of self-transformation. Told with humor that will make you laugh out loud and honesty that will hit you in the chest, this story follows a young man who always said "yes" - yes to friends, yes to pressure, yes to love he hadn't healed for - until life forced him to confront the cost of his silence. From embarrassing wedding disasters and broken business partnerships to shattered trust and emotional awakenings, every chapter peels back another layer of growth. When betrayal comes from the person he trusted most, everything changes. But sometimes losing people is the beginning of finding yourself. Through pain, surprise encounters, hard truths, and rediscovered confidence, he learns that "no" is not rejection - it is protection. Not weakness - but wisdom. This book is for anyone who has: • Loved too deeply • Trusted too easily • Laughed through hidden pain • Stayed too long • Or forgotten their own worth With sharp wit, relatable life experiences, and motivational insight woven into every chapter, I SAID NO is more than a story - it's a mirror. Because sometimes the most powerful transformation begins the moment you decide... Enough is enough. And you finally say - No

Staying Awake is an intimate, unflinching exploration of love, betrayal, desire, and consciousness inside a long-term relationship strained by trauma, infidelity, and uneven healing. After a series of life-altering surgeries, Mike believes recovery will be the moment his marriage finally steadies - a chance for repair, tenderness, and mutual care. For a while, it is. Then familiar patterns return: nights that stretch until dawn, silences that feel louder than arguments, and the slow realization that love can coexist with avoidance - but not without cost. As his body heals, something else awakens. Desire resurfaces not as longing to be chosen, but as recognition of self. Strength, dominance, fantasy, and curiosity emerge alongside grief and clarity. Mike begins to ask questions he once avoided: What does it mean to stay conscious when someone you love keeps escaping? When does compassion become self-abandonment? And who are you allowed to become when staying starts to hurt? Neither a breakup story nor a reconciliation fantasy, Staying Awake is a meditation on intimacy and responsibility - and what it takes to remain present when love asks you to shrink, wait, or sleep through your own becoming.

He was just a teenager when he woke up in a strange room in a strange hospital. He had no true memory of who or what he was. Most believed that he was Hudson Graves Jr., the son of the famous Hudson Graves. Hudson Graves was the inventor of the Cogitatus, a machine that can guide you through your own memories and the memories of your ancestors. Some saw Hudson Graves as a great philanthropist, the modern innovator, a savior to humanity, a man full of love, giving, and kindness. Others saw him as heartless, ruthless, and too powerful. He wasn't so sure himself of who people claimed him to be. The memories he did have made no sense. He had memories of Hudson Graves, memories of Hudson Graves Jr., and new memories of who he really felt himself to be. What he didn't know was that he was part of a much greater secret. A dark secret that would send him on a journey, one full of pain, experiences, lies, peace, death, and love. Throughout the journey he meets many people, some who were affected by the private affairs of Hudson Graves, and others who help him develop a new life. In the end, he fights a war between someone he doesn't remember, and someone he could possibly become.

A misguidedly idealistic high school student founds a club to teach his classmates philosophy; when it becomes a cult, he must change course before the whole school drinks the Kool-Aid. Frank can think of no better way to prove his classmates have no moral compass than to write a manifesto satirically arguing for the virtues of selfishness; when this attempt at shining a light on his classmates' behavior is taken at face value, he creates a club to spread his teachings, hoping his ironies will be more obvious on a grander scale. The authoritarian rule of law he establishes meets little resistance from his club members, even as he wonders privately when they'll have enough and choose a more virtuous path. While Frank earnestly seeks to help his classmates, his methodology proves misguided in practice, and Frank must find where to draw the line before he permanently ruins his beloved high school. But then again, being a cult leader is too much fun to pass up... You Must Remember This adapts the foundation of Catch-22 in a high school setting, applying the same notion of dystopian bureaucracy to lampoon Silicon Valley's competitive spirit and, in these politically charged times, comment on the fragility of our own democracy. CW: minor character death (non-graphic), dark psychological themes (e.g. gaslighting), authoritarian regimes (including references to communism and Nazism) "Amazing, terrible, bourgeois horror" "At first I thought the story was about silicone implants" "I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves the classic American English course reading list or just wants to read something that will make them think."

Usually, they say not to judge a book by its cover but....

Villains and Criminals are continuously disappearing from the world. Now it's all up to the 9th User of OFA, Izuku Midoriya a.k.a Deku to find the cause and take them down for good. Join him on his adventures on the planet of Remnant as he makes friends, enemies, and battles criminals in order to protect the people and become the hero he has always wished, even if it is on another world.

To cover the traces of his depravity, Gu Xiao constricted himself to the role of a jester while being torn between the idealisation of others and reality. Gu Xiao was a slacker in school, constantly truanting and playing around. Unknowingly, when he gets glued to sitting next to Lan Yuning, the school's top student, a linked past that they never knew they shared, gradually came back to haunt them. These students weaved their way through the tangling threads of familial relationships, financial issues, examinations, and identity while enjoying most of their last high school year. [You killed him.] [If you didn't ignore him that time, then he wouldn't have died.] [It's in the past. If you keep thinking about it, it's only going to do you harm.] [Sometimes I wonder... if you would be happier if I was the one who died back then instead.] __ [I like you.] [Why... Why would you like someone like me...?] ___________________________ Warning: mentions of suicide, homophobia, and domestic abuse THIS IS A SLOW BURN so if you want to read something fast and spicy then this book isn't for you :') Cover: @CASZETTES

"There are smarter, more fun ways to get what you want..." Janus Sanders, Selflessness vs Selfishness. In the weeks after the trial Deceit makes good on these words and begins a plan to get Thomas to that callback. No matter the cost. Patton falls suddenly ill, also literally falls, from a snake bite. They all knew the culprit, the only things they didn't know was how to confront Bananaconda and what heinous demands he'd have to cure the happy pappy. If any sort of arrangement could be reached at all. None of that stops a former Dark Side from putting it all on the line. Someone had to save Patton, no matter the cost. For all that those four little words had been thrown around no one knew just how powerful and dangerous they were, until a Side is without a heart, a famILY is torn apart, another still hasn't been regained, and their host might slip down a darker path than anyone anticipated. This fic was based around a pair of animatics made by beatrice difolco.Please search up her works "Sanders Sides Animatic- Friends on the Other Side," and "Sanders Sides Animatic-The Bad Guy." My device doesn't allow me to post the links. Trigger Warning: Anxiety, depression, paranoia, coercion, manipulation, unsymapthetic!Deceit, death, blood, and trauma