I have been unhappy for a year. My husband had forgotten all about me. One day, I met this annoying mail woman whom I oddly found a liking in over time. One night, it was raining and I invited her in. Since that night, I got to have her. Read, vote, and comment!!!! Started: April 15, 2023 Ended: September 14, 2024 Side Story Started: November 25, 2025 Ended: December 29, 2025 *None of the pictures in this book belongs to me*

Kesira Vaughn was never supposed to end up in Deyonna Carter's world. One mistake, one wrong place, one night she can't take back and suddenly she's no longer just a stranger. She's a captive in a life built on drugs, control, and survival. Deyonna didn't plan to keep her. Didn't plan to watch her. Definitely didn't plan to feel anything. But Kesira doesn't break the way she should. She talks back. She stands her ground. She looks Deyonna in the eyes like she isn't afraid of her even when she should be. What starts as control turns into obsession. What starts as fear turns into attachment. And what was supposed to be temporary starts feeling permanent. Two masc hearts collide in a world built on violence and survival where love isn't safe, and nothing about them is right. Because in their world... love doesn't heal you. It ruins you first.

After killing her abusive ex in self-defense, Nia Carter, a quiet, emotionally scarred young woman from Atlanta, is sentenced to 7 years in a women's prison. Lost, afraid, and broken, she meets King, a dominant, charismatic stud serving 25 to life for a street murder. King runs the block and has the respect of guards and inmates alike. From the moment King sees Nia, she's drawn to her vulnerability, her beauty, and her silence. She becomes her protector, fighting off threats and making sure nobody touches her. Over time, they form a deep emotional bond that borders on obsession for King - though Nia sees her as a friend, possibly more, in a place where love is survival. When Nia is released early after 5 years, she promises to write. But life moves on. She reinvents herself, gets therapy, becomes a nurse, and even marries a kind man who doesn't know the full truth about her past. Ten years later, King is finally released on parole. She searches for Nia with one purpose: to reclaim what she believes is hers. But when she sees Nia with her husband, the jealousy eats her alive. King makes a deadly choice: she kills the husband in cold blood, thinking she's freeing Nia. Now Nia is caught between the new life she built... and the old protector who never let her go.