"Thank you, Vaibhav. I love you," I murmured, burying my face in his neck and sucking his sweet spot. Vaibhav shifted the car into park. He turned fully toward me, wrapping his arm around my waist and pulling me flush against his chest. He pressed a deep, rough kiss into my mouth, his fingers rubbing my skin. "You don't ever have to thank me for taking care of you Ira. I love you," he whispered, his voice gentle and grounding against my ear. "Your dreams are my dreams now." FIFTEEN YEARS OF SILENT LOVE Ira Rao is a meritorious Btech student surviving the quiet torture of a toxic home. She walks alone, an introvert with a heart too heavy for her chest. Isolation is her only sanctuary. Yet, deep beneath her guarded exterior lies a dangerous obsession. For a decade and a half, her heart has belonged entirely to one man. Vaibhav Rathore, a billionaire man unaware of her love. But fate forced their worlds to collide. He is blessed with a fiercely supportive family but hardened by the bitter sting of a failed marriage. He is a man of intense ego and extremes: Cold to the world, but fiercely possessive of what is his. When Ira finally breaches his defenses, she transforms his world. Vaibhav becomes a lover to the absolute core, unleashing a protective, consuming passion meant only for her. She becomes his entire universe. His Ira. But just as they find solace in each other's arms, believing they are finally whole and safe from the past, a brutal shadow from the past descends upon them, shattering their fragile peace with a nightmare of violence and cruelty that threatens to tear them apart. Faced with the ultimate test of survival, Ira must endure the unthinkable, while Vaibhav realised how far he will go to protect the only woman he has ever truly owned. When the world tries to shatter Ira, will Vaibhav's possessive love be her salvation, or will the darkness consume them both? Can a love built on fifteen years survive a brutal attempt to destroy it completely?

"I want to consume you, solnyshko." He whispers into my ears. "Your heart. Your body. Your soul. The same way you've consumed all of me without knowing." Her smile is wide, too wide for his liking. The kind of smile that draws people in without an effort, leaving them desperate to be her or be with her. Her recklessness, her intelligence, and her charisma lures everyone. People see her laughter, confidence and her infuriating charm but he sees what they don't . The scar in her shoulder that she choses to ignore, rashes in her arms and slight hesitation in her voice as she speaks. A crack beneath her façade. He doesn't know if that knowledge is a curse or a privilege. She's his greatest frustration, dangerous fascination and his to unravel. ------- He swore he hated her. Hated her loud mouth, her relentless persistence, and arrogance. Hated how she challenged him in every possible way and yet for nine years, he has been haunted by her existence. The same existence that shattered his life he once knew. *Mature* Don't report me, I gave you a warning. -dark romance -billionaire/CEO/mobsters -enemies to lovers -high school nemesis reunited -His first everything It contains sensitive topics such as bullying, sexual assault and mental health issues. Read it at your own risk. The trigger warning will be put in those certain chapters (some of them can be skipped but not all).

New Orleans, Louisiana. October 2005. Before Hurricane Katrina, the Jetson Youth Correctional Center struggled with overcrowding. After the storm, the problem became impossible to ignore. The state quietly responded by creating the Arcane Delinquent Rehabilitation Initiative (ADRI), a secret juvenile program where convicted teenagers could earn their freedom by hunting the supernatural horrors now lurking throughout Louisiana's flooded wilderness. Every monster killed shortens a sentence. Every failure carries a price. Among its recruits are three teenage convicts: Shiloh Aroha, a seventeen-year-old part-time demon slayer desperate to escape her suffocating home life. Remy Salazar, an eighteen-year-old half-demon hybrid who finds human bureaucracy more exhausting than the dead. Prue Beaumont, a kindhearted seventeen-year-old witch whose quiet demeanor conceals a dangerous past. When they're not hunting monsters, ADRI requires its recruits to attend classes and court-ordered therapy inside a battered community center that's been converted into a temporary school. Between occult lessons, counseling sessions, and weapons drills, everyone is expected to pretend life is slowly returning to normal. Until one of their classmates is murdered. The administration calls it an accident. The police are kept at arm's length. Students are warned to keep their mouths shut and move on, but the victim had been digging into something hidden beneath the community center's polished routine. As another student vanishes and whispers spread through the hallways, Shiloh, Remy, and Prue uncover a trail of missing records, sealed rooms, and half-forgotten disappearances stretching back long before Katrina. Every answer points to a secret someone inside ADRI is willing to kill to protect. Make no mistake - they aren't looking to play heroes or clean up messes. But if exposing the school's dark secrets is the only way to earn a clean slate, then so be it.

❝Maybe I'll leave you alone, or maybe I'll haunt you.❞ There is one guy who ruins everything. He's cocky, rude, and seems totally full of it. She hates him, but something inside him is dangerously alluring. Lia Greene is the daughter of a rich architect, and when she meets Clive Beckett, her life changes forever.