I stand there wide eyed and frozen where I am being held in place. The sounds of fists connecting on skin, cracking under his bloody fists. How can he be so cruel and heartless? Why doesn't he just leave me alone? "STOP PLEASE JUST STOP!" I hear myself scream feeling warm tears fall down my cheek. I couldn't bear it anymore. At the sound of my scream, he stops midair snapping his head towards my frightened one with a sadistic smirk. He does that every time someone begs. "Sorry Princess, I don't think I heard you?" He heard me, that's how he plays with people's emotions. "Stop just let him go he didn't do anything wrong." He stares at me blankly. His eyes show anger. "HE DID DO SOMETHING WRONG! HE TOUCHED YOU! NO ONE TOUCHES WHAT'S MINE!" I flinch from his screams, something I always do when he yells. "I'm... we aren't." I shake my head. "Say it. I WANT.TO.HEAR.YOU.SAY.IT!" I know what he wants me to say, I just couldn't. He notices that I am not going to say the three words he wants to hear. Turning to face his punching bag, he lifts his arm again, hatred in his eyes. "STOP! I -- I'll say it, just please stop. He's had enough." I say defeated. Dropping his arm, he drops him on the ground like a sack of dirt and stalks towards me as the arms that restrain me let go. "Tell me Princess. Tell me what I want to hear." he cups my face with his bloody hands. Staring into his cold-hearted eyes I let out a shaky breath "I -- I'm...only...yours." His lips curl up into a smile pulling me into his lips. Kissing me possessively, I shut my eyes tightly. Pulling away he goes back to a serious face. "You.Are.OnlyMine! Remember that. You belong to me. You know I will kill any guy that even thinks to look, speak or touch you. Do you understand me? I nod my head yes glancing over at the limp body on the ground then back at him. Stepping back, he turns and kicks him on his side making him spit blood out. "Next time you're dead!" ... I'm only his...

[edited version of Doctor for the Mafia] Ila Archer was a doctor working at one of the best hospitals in New York. She loses her license and ability to practice due to, as punishment, taking full responsibility for the 'walking patient' incident. After a full month, Ila runs into the 'walking patient'. Knowing her situation caused by his actions, he offers a once in a lifetime opportunity. ----- "Look, you're a doctor-" He started. "Was." I corrected. "I was a doctor." "You can still be," he said, running his fingers through his dark hair. "Look, you can work for us, and I'll pay triple the amount you were earning at that lousy hospital." "Us?' I asked. Who was he? How exactly does he plan on paying me triple? He grabbed my wrist and pulled me inwards. My face inches away from his chest. With his free hand, he was gently tucking my hair behind my ear. His breath tickled my ear as he whispered two words that sent shivers down my back. "The Mafia."

* Book 1 in the Viper series. Living in Mexico with her Mexican father Gabriella 'Ella' Vargas is fresh out of college and searching for a career in accounting. Struggling to find work, her father suggests a few weeks holiday to visit her American mother in America who she hasn't seen for a year. Taking her fathers advice Ella sets out on a American holiday, but when she arrives not all is as it once was. Ella's mother is now living in a gated community and has more money then she knows what to do with, apparently she has a new, well paying job. After confiding in her Mother and telling her of her job struggles back home, Ella is made an offer she can't refuse, stay in America and work for the same company her mother works for. A small night club in town run by a friend of hers and his super good looking son, Ace. But is it really a dream come true? Or are things not always as they seem? Strap yourself in for a roller coaster ride of ups and downs, lies, secrets, love and heartbreak. 🐍 Number 1 in fiction: 16.01.2021 Number 1 in complete 5.2.2021 Number 1 in completedstory 5.2.2021 Number 1 in young adult 16.2.2021

Kristina Lewis has been fighting for her life since the world went to hell. No matter how hard things get she soldiers on. Until one day when she's blindsided by a group of men, who beat and leave her for dead. She finds herself in desperate need of help. Just when she thinks it's the end a crossbow wielding redneck saves her life. Daryl Dixon doesn't trust anyone, it's how he's survived for so long, but with the world getting worse it's clear that the only way to survive is with a group. When he stumbles upon an injured woman on the side of the road, cowering in fear, he just couldn't leave her. What they both don't realize is this chance encounter will change their lives forever. Finding love in the apocalypse is rare and you have to fight like hell to keep it. Which is what Kris and Daryl having been doing since the day they met. Completed Seasons: 1-9

Rage is the residential psycho of the club. Tormented by his own demons he lives in pain and agony, a constant state of rage. Everyone knows him as the Hellhound of the Riders of Tyr , known for his cruelty and the joy he gets from causing pain. To others and to himself. Loyal to his King and the club he craves for the liberation death will bring him. Till he meets Iris. Iris has escaped Hell and lives out on the streets till she surprises everyone and becomes a mechanic for the Riders. Afraid of her own shadow, plagued by the terrifying memories she never feels safe. Until she meets Rage.

Ava is a bounty hunter that hunts and lives alone. Her job takes her to Berkeley after a dangerous outlaw, member of a motorcycle club that is accused of serious crimes. As she follows him, she realizes that there is someone else after her prey: a rival motorcycle club that wants the man dead. If she wants to collect her money and finish the job she has no other choice. She has to work with the club and especially one particular hot, sexy and haughty biker, Bjorn. Bjorn has been a member of the Riders of Tyr even before he was born. His father was a member and he had no choice but to follow the life. All the people he knows are members or affiliated to the club and his life is tied to it. When his King orders him to blow up a member of the rival gang, he doesn't even flinch. He never expected that he would end up working with a stubborn, bad-ass bounty hunter. That also happens to be unbearably alluring.

"You really wanna know why I shove every guy away," I shouted in anger at the one man I thought I'd never fall for. I watched as he just stared at me, unsure if he really wanted to know. "This is why," I said turning my back to him and lifted up my shirt, revealing the stab wound I had received from the last man I thought I loved, "this could've happened to my daughter! To my Maddie! This is why I don't trust men anymore!" [Important]: I've entered this story in the Wattys 2015. please help me out by voting for this story and sharing it with your friends!

Detective Daryl Dixon could have any woman he wants and he knew it. With his rugged good looks and deep pockets he was a prime candidate for any woman but Daryl had no intentions of ever settling down, especially being so jaded working homicide for far too long. Sticking to his appetite for dancers and cocktail waitresses, his world was rocked as a new dancer burst onto the scene and was his match in every way, including his temper. Would he let his guard down and let her see who he really was or was he just too far gone to let anyone ever mean anything to him again? If there was such a person, Jenna was it.