Perfect appearances, perfect grades, perfect manners. Anything less for Adelina Torres and her family kicks her to the streets until she can keep up with the family name. She never had a life of her own. Always studying, always going to business dinners with her parents, always seen as a failure to her family. Despite her bubbly personality, she has always struggled to make friends. What happens when she meets Aaron Hendrix, the leader of the most powerful mafia in the country? A moment to thank you beautiful readers for giving me these rankings among thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions of other stories with similar tags :) #1 in mafia #1 in protective #1 in abused #1 in sunshine #1 in grumpy #2 in innocent #2 in cold #2 in goodgirl #3 in cute #9 in badboy #42 in family #54 in love

You can find yourself drowning in a relationship that's not healthy just because you're scared of getting hurt. That's not ok. We all need to feel loved and if that's not what you're feeling then you're with the wrong person. You need to walk away and allow yourself to be free and let love find you because it always does. Just keep an open mind because it does not know age or skin tone. It knows chemistry and commitment 😉😉 Victoria: A successful woman with a broken heart, she has given up on love because it ruined her life. Will she still avoid it when the same feelings she has been avoiding stare right at her??? Ambrose: A successful man with only one mission, to be the best father he can be because his children are the only ones that will never take his love for granted. What will happen when he can't ignore his heart's needs? #1 - divorce 10/10/2023 #4 - billionaire 03/12/2023 #2 - maturescenes 16/12/2024

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[ COMPLETED ] Eliana Oakley and Casen Walker couldn't be further on the other's spectrum. Eliana is twenty-one years old and in her last year of college. An artist at heart, she uses that to her advantage to further her early fashion design career. A protégé under Florence Harvey, internationally known luxury designer, Eliana doesn't have much time for anything other than burying her face into her sewing machine. Casen - otherwise known as Case to his football buddies - is twenty-two and on track to the NFL as a rookie Wide Receiver, just preparing to graduate with his degree in engineering. Oh, let's not forget his minor in hoe behavior. They roll with different social cliques - there was supposed to be no chance of them meeting. Especially in their final year in college. But one faithful friends night out at a bowling alley changes everything. COPYRIGHT © MIDNXGHTSUN

{ Completed } He thought he did the right thing by keeping his occupation a secret, but when the truth comes out, he loses the only person that ever made his heart skip a beat every time he looked at her. Could he win her back? She wanted nothing to do with him after finding out the truth. They weren't together very long, but she still felt hurt by the lies. Could she ever forgive him? ------ Published 8/02/17 Completed 1/6/19 Final Edit: 5/6/22

She was his best kept secret, his most treasured possession, an African-American beauty who won his heart from the very beginning. But keeping what he did for a living a secret from her and trying to keep her a secret from his enemies was proving to be the hardest job he'd ever had as an assassin.

°Slow random editing. Changing some scene and interactions.° Rischio Noun.... Italian word, probably cut from the medieval Greek translation Risk Noun... English word meaning chance, hazard, peril, danger. (essere a rischio )― to be at risk, in danger. This book is, to be in danger.

Mafia, lies, money, betrayals. #1 in bwwwm #1 in white male #41 in forbidden #241 in couple #84 in blackwomen #112 in Italian #15 in mafia romance #586 in mafia love

"Why won’t you let me in?!" He cried in frustration clenching his fists together with an undeniable passion, raising his strong arms. I stared hopelessly at him with more tears welling up in my brown eyes. “I love you.” He whispered to me. But he needn’t, he needn’t have told me for I already knew, I knew in fact, very well. I just didn’t accept it...

Fire and ice, somehow existing together without destroying each other. More proof that I belonged with him.-Stephanie Meyer.