When rich girl Alyssa grows tired of the high-life, she joins a boxing gym for delinquents, where she must fight her feelings for one of the members or risk ruining her family's reputation. **** Eighteen-year-old Alyssa Class is known as the rich bitch, the girl with the perfect life - except her life is anything but perfect. Max O'Connor knows first-hand what it's like to have nothing, which is why he's hellbent on becoming a boxer -if he can avoid distractions. But when Alyssa joins a gym for delinquents, their worlds collide, and sparks - and fists - start to fly. With controlling parents on their case and her dad's business on the line, will the pair fight for family or love? *UPDATES DAILY* *This is a Gaslight spin-off. It will feature some familiar characters but is a standalone book and can be read without reading Gaslight.* *If you aren't reading this book on Wattpad, it has been stolen. Please report the website!*

••• I don't want your body but i hate to think about you with somebody else ••• If I had to pinpoint the exact moment when my ordinary life turned into the complete messy shit show that it is now, i would probably narrow it down to the time my best friend Carl Gallagher told me he had a girlfriend.

Arielle once believed love was supposed to feel like urgency - breathless, bright, impossible to hold without burning. She gave her heart young, fiercely, thinking intensity meant destiny. But life taught her something quieter: sometimes the real breaking isn't loud - it's slow, invisible, and lonely. Now she's rebuilding. Not chasing closure... becoming it. There is someone from her past - a memory shaped like a first love, returning not to reclaim what once was, but to acknowledge what can never be again. And there is someone in her present - steady hands, quiet mornings, laughter that doesn't demand, warmth offered without rush - a presence that feels like safety instead of rescue. Yet this isn't a love triangle. It's a woman learning she is not choosing between two men - she is choosing herself, and the life she wants to grow into. Healing doesn't roar here. It whispers. It rests. It rebuilds. This is a story of: • love that once burned • love that now breathes • and a heart learning the difference Not every ending is explosive. Some are soft. Some are earned in silence. Some aren't endings at all - just beginnings with the lights turned on. A romance about growing up, letting go, and finding love that feels like peace - not proof. ✍🏽 Author Bio - Mercy Oke Mercy Oke writes emotional contemporary romance rooted in tenderness, healing, and the quiet revolution of choosing peace over chaos. Her characters don't fall in love because they're broken - they love while becoming whole. With a signature slow-burn softness, Mercy explores emotional maturity, internal rebirth, and intimacy that feels like exhale. Her work celebrates women who save themselves, and partners who become a soft place to land - not a cure, but a companion. When she's not writing, she's drinking warm tea, observing the language of ordinary life, and collecting moments that feel like stories waiting to breathe.

"Did you punch him in the face?" "No!" She laughed. "That's not the Lydia I know," Carter shook his head, staring up at the grey clouds with a reminiscent expression. "The Lydia I know punched me in the face the first time we interacted." "We were five." She deadpanned but felt a little enthralled that he remembered. "Yeah, so you should be able to hit harder now." Copyright ©️ Cover and graphics made by the one and only @Ashely_Mariex

The QB, Summer and Me is a new story in The QB and Me universe. Dallas and Drayton spend their summer after high school together. Eleven weeks before they go their separate ways for college. She's heading to California. He's staying in Texas. From lakehouse getaways to midnight rides, it's a summer full of love, uncertainty, and a secret that could change everything. Set during their final summer before college, this standalone novella exists outside the events of the film franchise and offers a fresh, romantic glimpse into Dallas and Drayton's story.

Enjoy this story free until January 2nd WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION Ellie and Leroy are from two different worlds but their love is one of a kind. Can it survive life-changing news that will challenge them as a couple with much to gain and even more to lose? ***** (Prequel to Tay Marley's smash hit, The QB Bad Boy and Me) Sometimes home isn't a place, it's a person. From the moment their eyes met, Ellie knew he would be her destiny. Handsome and ripped, there's just something about Leroy Lahey, soon-to-be college star quarterback, that makes him impossible to resist. Consumed by a passion neither one of them can quite understand, Leroy and Ellie spend the summer together. Left senseless and overwhelmed by his touch, Ellie experiences a world of desire she could never have imagined. Safe in Leroy's arms, Ellie begins to see a life beyond high school: going to college, starting her own business, having a family. But when life-altering news shakes them to their cores, Leroy and Ellie must discover if their passion is enough to help them get through what might possibly be the greatest challenge of their lives. Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of sexual activity, which may be triggering for some readers. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

This is the sequel (continuation) of After. Hardin and Tessa's relationship will be tested in ways she never expected, but he knew of all along.

When a scandal forces hockey star Amelia Bennett into a fake relationship with guarded photographer Harper Lane, neither expects the headlines, or the feelings, that follow. What starts as a PR stunt begins to spark into something real, threatening to expose more than just their hearts. *** She's the world's best hockey player. She's a heartbroken photographer with nowhere else to go. And they were never supposed to fall in love. At 24, Amelia Bennett is the most talented hockey player on the planet-chaotic, impulsive, and the last Bennett standing without a ring on her finger. After a very public scandal threatens her sponsorships and reputation, the team's PR crisis plan is simple: clean up her image fast. Step one? A fake relationship. Something that should be easy, right? Harper Lane has no interest in fame, or falling for another golden boy-or girl-with a spotlight stitched into their skin. After catching her long-term boyfriend cheating, she's sworn off chaos and charm. But when her best friend Audrey begs her to stay with Millie temporarily, Harper finds herself in the middle of a media storm-and somehow agreeing to pretend to be Millie Bennett's girlfriend. It's only for the cameras. Just long enough to fix Millie's image. Just enough to keep Harper's ex boyfriend off her back. But fake smiles turn into real moments. Cold shoulders warm under shared blankets. And the girl Harper was warned about-the reckless, beautiful mess, is nothing like the one who makes her tea when she's anxious and kisses her like she means it. In a house built on secrets, one accidental love story is about to mak

"Go, I don't want to make you hate me for what I did." he says softly as a tear of drop dipped from his eyes. "What are you talking about?" I approached him. "Don't you know, it's fucking clear that you will not choose me." he sadly smiles. "Are you sure about that?" I ask him and turned him to face me. His eyes were now red by now. I hate seeing him like this. "Because, it's pretty clear that I have chosen you, bad boy...." I whisper with a smile.... --------- She has the ability to love. He doesn't. She wants the adventure. He wants to love. She is shy, beautiful, naive and new to everything that was going to begin in her life. But, He is the bad boy. What happens when these two collide with each other and then came to know that they are the only one who can help each other with their problems?? "He becomes possessive and obsessed with her but that is the first thing that scares her about everyone" Join them in their sweet, funny and possessive love story where everything is about to reveal.... Started on:- 8 April 2018 Completed on:- 30 April 2019 HIGHEST RANKING~ #1 in Obsessed(26 July 2018) HIGHEST RANKING~#6 in Hotboys(17 July 2018) Achievements:- #103 in teen fiction-28 July 2018 #90 in teen fiction-10 August 2018 #72 in teen fiction- 14 August 2018 #55 in teen fiction- 16 August 2018 #37 in teen fiction- 7 April 2019 WARNING:-This is going to be a clichè story!

When River crosses paths with a man who speaks to every hidden hunger inside her, their connection spirals into an all-consuming pull neither of them can resist-but is she Grayson's salvation... or his ruin? *** Everyone in River Avelle's hometown knows about Grayson Maddox-the troubled bad boy who almost killed another student in the middle of the school hallway. Those who look into Grayson's eyes only see pure fury and hatred. They all think he's beyond redemption, even Grayson himself. But not River. As the seemingly perfect good girl, River saw something more in those alluring grey eyes. Something worth holding onto. From the first time their eyes connect, both Grayson and River feel the intense, undeniable attraction between them...but neither of them understand what's pulling them together so fiercely. The closer they get and the more vulnerable they become, River has to wonder: is she saving Grayson from his darkness? Or is she just pulling him further into hers? *** He tips my head toward his with his index finger, keeping my eyes trained on him and driving me crazy with the primal look on his face. His grey eyes look heavy, filled with dark desire, and a shock runs up through my core. Everything around us disappears and all I can sense is him and the hardness pressing between my legs. "What are you doing to me, River?" he whispers, his voice raspy and utterly captivated. His face is lowering and I'm closing my eyes, waiting for soft lips to press against mine. My whole body is on fire as I hold my breath for his touch. *** Cover by @strayin