When she comes home for summer, the one man who makes her feel safe is the one she can never have-her father's best friend, Frank Castle. Older, scarred, and fiercely protective, Frank tries to keep his distance. But in the hazy heat of long summers and stolen moments, forbidden desire begins to unravel them both. A slow-burn age-gap romance thick with tension, tenderness, and dangerous temptation. TW: heavy smutt, swearing, alcohol, cheating mentioned, age gaps, sex, slight violence.

Peter Parker and Loreleï Levine seem to have it all. As Spider-Man and the woman who's stood by his side through every impossible battle, they've built a life around love, trust, and sacrifice. But when Loreleï's path unexpectedly crosses that of the Punisher, Frank Castle, she discovers there's far more to the infamous vigilante than the monster the world believes him to be. As a mysterious scientist begins manipulating minds and conducting terrifying psychological experiments, Spider-Man, the Punisher, and Loreleï are drawn into a conspiracy that forces them to question everything they know about justice, loyalty, and compassion. In a world where everyone has a breaking point, one question remains: Can compassion survive when someone is determined to turn it into a weakness?

He was a dead man serving a life sentence in a hell of his own making. You were the only pure thing left in it. Taking place after the events of Daredevil Season 2 and diving into the brutal storyline of The Punisher Season 1, this story follows a fiercely independent university student double-majoring in Abnormal Psychology and Journalism, and her father's grieving best friend, Frank Castle. --- To you, Frank is just a quiet, broken shadow of the man you grew up with-a blue-collar worker drowning in the grief of a murdered family. You have no idea that the bruised, battered man sitting in your living room spends his nights waging a one-man war as the city's most lethal vigilante. Remaining a ghost as Pete Castiglione is the only way he knows how to protect the few innocent people he has left in his periphery. But when a suffocating, unspoken tension ignites between him and his best friend's daughter, his personal defences start to crack. It has to stay a secret. With your father - an NYPD detective and Frank's fiercely loyal friend - standing right between you, every heavy stare and stolen touch is laced with the threat of destroying the only family Frank has left. While Frank desperately tries to keep you safely in the dark, your investigative instincts are too sharp to ignore the blood spilling into your city. As you start digging into the criminal underworld, you inadvertently step closer to the dark, lethal reality he is desperately trying to hide. --- Timeline Note The first few chapters of this book are dedicated entirely to exploring the intense, psychological slow-burn and character dynamic between Y/N and Frank. The events of The Punisher Season 1 will officially begin incorporating into the story around Chapter 12! Author's Note Thank you so much for giving this story a chance! I'll be doing my absolute best to upload a new chapter every other day. I love reading your reactions! Happy reading! ☠︎︎⋆˙⟡

(This is not a fanfic) There are secrets that burn more than fire. For me the secret has a first and last name, not to mention he shares drinks with my father in the living room. And obsessive attraction consumed in secret, where every touch is a betrayal and every confession is made in whispers.

New life in New York, Stellar knew that a fresh start away from London would start new opportunities, she would be more confident, more bold, more hardworking, more fun! And yet when she finds herself dragging emotional and physical baggage from back home, she meets her first challenge, and she won't be one to back down. - Jon, mechanic in Brooklyn, he's gone long enough in his life not trying to please anyone, how? Not letting anyone close enough, what's the point? He's very happy with how things are right now, mostly peaceful But when a very opinionated British girl needs his help a random night in New York, he wonders if he'll ever see her again, better not, that weird tightness in his chest when she speaks can't be good.

Honora, dite Nora, 23 ans, quitte Seattle après une rupture difficile avec Isaac. Épuisée par la pression de sa vie étudiante et le chaos de la ville, elle décide de rentrer chez son père dans le village de Riverfront, en Oregon, pour y passer le mois de septembre jusqu'à Noël. Elle espère y trouver du calme, du recul, et un peu de silence pour recoller les morceaux. Mais Riverfront n'est pas aussi figé qu'elle l'imaginait. Entre un passé qui continue de la suivre, des liens familiaux qu'elle redécouvre et des présences qu'elle n'avait pas prévu de retrouver, Nora comprend rapidement que rien ne sera aussi simple que prévu. Surtout quand il y a Tommy (Jon Bernthal ) le meilleur ami de son père, son voisin, policier comme lui sarcastique, sûr de lui, insupportablement calme et beaucoup trop présent. Depuis son retour, il ne cesse de la provoquer comme s'il n'avait jamais cessé de la connaître. Et dans un endroit où tout le monde se connaît, certains secrets deviennent impossibles à garder. Certains regards, eux, encore plus

There was something about the town of Ganford that made people stay. Maybe it was the burnt orange skies of the desert, or the state route that stretched across it. Everybody knew everybody. Everybody had their secrets. Lily Campbell spent 22 years of her life learning them. Ganford made people predictable. Except for one man. Foster Harrigan came and went with the seasons. The Campbells have been family friends with Foster longer than Lily could remember. After years of silence surrounding the mysteries of the town, Lily digs deeper, only to continuously run into the man who secretly ran Ganford.

Rule number one: Don't look at her. Rule number two: Don't cross the line. Staying in her father's guest house was supposed to be simple, but Frank is finding it impossible to keep his eyes off Nora. He watches the way she hides behind her clothes and tolerates a guy who doesn't deserve her. Frank knows he's out of line. He knows he's too old to fall into this trap. He just doesn't care anymore.

Was he always this undeniable ?, maybe he should have been considering he's your dads best friend yet something about him brings you to him every time .