SEQUEL to Ms. Beaumont Three years ago, Annabelle Rivers made the hardest decision of her life-she walked away from Eleanor Beaumont. No goodbye that fixed things. No more chances. Just distance...and silence. Now, Annabelle has built something new in New York. A life that finally feels right. Alongside Lucy and Juliet, she's carved a future far removed from the chaos she left behind-working in child protective services, fighting every day to give vulnerable children the safety she once struggled to find herself. Eleanor? She became a ghost Annabelle learnt not to chase. Until she isn't. When a high-profile case lands on Annabelle's desk, it pulls her into a world of power, money, and secrets-one that requires the involvement of a private security firm known for handling things quietly. Beau & co. Professional. Untouchable. Controlled. Run by Eleanor Beaumont herself. Neither of them knew the other would be there. Neither of them were prepared for what it would feel like to stand in the same room again. Three years hasn't softened anything-it's sharpened it. Because the truth is, they're not the same people they used to be. Annabelle is stronger, harder, no longer the girl who needs saving. And Eleanor...is even more dangerous in the way she carries herself now. Forced to work together to protect a child caught in the middle of something far bigger than anyone expected, they find themselves walking a line between past and present-between what they were, and what they could become again. But some things don't stay buried. Some choices don't stay in the past. And when secrets start to unravel, one question lingers between them: Was walking away the thing that saved them...or the thing that broke them for good?

Twenty-two-year- old. Annabelle rivers has perfected the art of pretending she's fine. At college, she smiles, studies, stays quiet. At home, she endures a mother whose love comes laced with cruelty-cut's disguised as concern, wounds disguised as lessons. Annabelle carries the pain in silence, hidden beneath long sleeves and late-night tears, just trying to survive her final year without falling apart. Then she walks in. Ms. Beaumont-thirty-nine, brilliant, wealthy, and carved from ice-arrives as the new mathematics professor with a reputation as sharp as her heels. Students fear her. Staff avoid her. She is the kind of woman who seems untouchable, unreachable, and uninterested in anything beyond her immaculate walls. But Annabelle notices the cracks. And Ms. Beaumont notices her. What starts as tension-dangerous, electric, wrong-slowly coils into something neither of them should want. Annabelle is drawn to the darkness behind Ms. Beaumonts eyes, the soft trembling beneath her cold exterior. And Ms. Beaumont despite every rule she's built her life around, can't seem to stay away. Their stolen moments become confessions. Their glances become obsession. Their connection becomes a secret that could ruin them both. Because this isn't just forbidden-it's destructive. A professor hiding old scars. A student burying new ones. A love that feels like the only safe place they've ever known...and the most dangerous choice they could make. As Annabelle spirals deeper into her own shadows and Ms. Beaumonts past threatens to surface, one truth becomes impossible to ignore: Some people aren't meant to love each other. And some can't survive without it.

Elenia Jahnson only wanted to become an architect. An internship at Laurent Atelier, Manhattan's most prestigious architecture firm, was supposed to be the beginning of her career. Instead, it became the beginning of Vivienne Laurent. Brilliant. Unreadable. Meticulously composed. Vivienne notices everything. Every habit. Every hesitation. Every apology. And once she decides something belongs in her life... She rarely lets it go.

A fanfic with Narcissa Black, this is an AU without Lucius and doesn't follow the plot of the series. Reader uses she/her pronouns. Y/n y/l/n works at the Ministry, which isn't too bad for various reasons. You get to see idiotic magic events before The Daily Prophet, and you single handedly help prevent the exposure of the magic world to the muggles, your office neighbor, your peaceful office floor, your office neighbor, oh and your office neighbor. Your job would be perfect if it wasn't for your boss. Can y/n finally establish a relationship with her crush of several years? Maybe. *I only own my OC's, everything else is own by JK Rowling. Whom I DON'T support. * ©ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS IS MY OWN STORY. YOU DO NOT HAVE MY PERMISSION TO REPOST THIS STORY FOR ANY REASON. EVEN WITH CREDIT, IT IS STILL STEALING! Highest ranking: #4 in #devotion as of August 18, 2021. #16 in #plot as of August 18, 2021. #1 in #inprocess as of June 28, 2022. #3 in #helennccrory as of June 28, 2022.