❝ sugarcoated, lies unfolded, you still lick the wrapper.❞

"Solè, why'd you stay?" "Because, Zaire... you the first thing that ever felt worth staying for." ❀ 🝳 ❀ Harlem held the noise. Solè gave Zaire the quiet. Zaire Knox, Harlem's quiet storm, known for his ties to the streets and a gaze that read people faster than they could lie to him. Respected. Feared. Loved. With scars buried deeper than his tattoos, he never planned to love soft. Until a Harlem vinyl shop left behind by his late grandfather forces him to slow down, to breathe, to find his real purpose in the world beyond the streets. Solè Sinclair, soft but unbreakable, raised by her father after loss. By day, she serves warmth behind the counter of a café. By night, she disappears into her art, trying to paint the parts of herself no one ever sees. When their worlds cross, the city shifts. What starts off tense and unexpected turns tender. Together, they learn love can hold you just as fierce as the streets ever did, and softer, too. But love in Harlem always asks one question: what are you willing to risk when the heart wants more than the streets ever offered? A Harlem story. A hood love. A soft place to land. ❀ 🝳 ❀

noun: weakness. /ˈwēknəs/ -a person or thing that one is unable to resist or likes excessively.

A promise. It seems like the simplest thing in the world to keep. But so often, they're broken, empty and hollow. They seem like the easiest thing in the world to believe, but after the words are left out to bleed, after they leave you waiting and wanting, after all the emptiness and hollow words-how are you going to believe the one who actually say what they mean?

"Ever seen a gangsta die? Nigga, that's rhetorical. Watched too many gangstas die, seen too many mommas cry. I'm gon' chase a hunnid million, I don't wanna be no homicide"

𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐝ī(ə)𝐦ə𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡, 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫, 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞, 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲, 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞.

Serenity is a college going student who has the potiental to be the best nurse she can be. With her bestfriend on her right hip and her mom on her left she feels on top of the world When she slips up and one thing happens her world come crashing down. She is unsure of if this one thing happened for better or first worst It was only suppose to be one night..

Don't think that my life is so typical because I once thought that and then everything changed for me. Don't ask me how either because I don't know. I mean.. you could see for yourself. And then you could give me an answer because I obviously don't have one. BOOK ONE COPYRIGHT | I DO NOT OWN ANY PICTURES.

Works #2 : Ahmad Hassan Sinclair, 29, finally met his goal in becoming happy and finally letting someone into that cold heart of his and fell in love deeply. But of course as we know .. Ahmad's life was never perfect, and will never be perfect .. things don't come easy and shit will always hit the fan and ruin something to knock him off track but the question is will Ahmad bounce back this time? Will he have that will power in him to keep fighting to get where he wants to be in life? He used his determination he had in his blood to find that happiness he needed but will he use the dedication in his system to stay happy? Or will he let everything he has built so far fall apart and crumble at his feet?

"We need We. Don't forget that, Nebbie." "We need we. I promise I won't." A promise between soulmates is a promise that shouldn't be broken. Unfortunately, a tragic event occurs in Nebbie and Adonis's relationship that causes that promise to break. Two whole years have gone by since they last seen each other and they are now on two different paths. But not one day they don't think about each other. Nebbie has moved on while Adonis's love still lingers for her. Can the two get back on the right path or would the promise be forever broken?