He's the shy one. She's the quiet one. A late night grocery run turns into a awkward moment. And a stare that says, "Relax. I got you."

"Why are you doing this?!!! what do you want from me! I've done nothing wrong. I just want to go home!" I screamed. He stared at me with his cold eyes and started laughing. I felt angry, he was mocking me. "you're so clueless, someone wants you gone. by gone I mean dead. they hired me to make that happened. so I suggest you shut up, you are giving me a headache." this couldn't be happening to me. I was the Governor wife, he will find me. there will be a search party for me! right!? they will find me. "they'll find me. they will come looking for me." I said he turned looked at me again and I saw something flicker in his eyes. " if they look for you that is," he said and walked away. leaving me in the darkness. - Rated & Rankings: #1 Interracialcouples by Wattpad #332 Kidnapped stories out of 3.8k stories #45 Abducted stories out of 449 stories #499 BWWM our of 3.9k Stories #246 Happiness 246/6K :) thank you Dolls! Let's make it go higher!!!

She was born to serve. He was born to rule. One glance was all it took to ruin them both. Maya has spent her entire life learning how to disappear. As a palace maid in the Emperor's obsidian halls, her survival depends on being invisible - silent, obedient, and utterly forgettable. She cleans the floors of the throne room, avoids the shadows of the guards, and never, ever , looks up at the man who sits on the burning throne. Until the night she does. Emperor Kaelen is young, merciless, and impossibly beautiful - a golden god carved from ice and fire. The empire whispers that he has no heart. That he collects obedience the way other men collect crowns. That no one has ever held his gaze and lived to tell of it. But when Maya's eyes meet his across the throne room, the world stops. He sees her. Really sees her. And a man who has spent his life owning everything suddenly discovers the one thing he cannot have - a palace maid with fire in her blood and defiance in her bones, who refuses to kneel for anyone. The Emperor does not ask. He commands. He claims. He consumes. But Maya is not a possession. And the throne room that once felt like a cage is about to become a battlefield - where obsession meets resistance, where power meets desire, and where one forbidden glance ignites an empire.

He came for the debt. He stayed to claim her soul. Viktor Volkov rules Moscow's underworld with an iron fist and ice in his veins. As pakhan of the most feared Bratva syndicate, he's used to people paying what they owe - in blood, money, or broken bones. When Viola Isley's brother Liam steals two million rubles and disappears like the spineless coward he is, Viktor doesn't waste time chasing a ghost. He goes straight for what's left behind: her. Viola never signed up for her brother's mistakes. She's just trying to survive - long shifts at the café, cramped apartment in a crumbling Soviet block, nights alone with nothing but her thoughts and the endless Moscow snow. She doesn't know that for weeks, a predator has been watching her every move. Tracking her phone. Hacking her laptop camera. Sitting in the shadows outside her window while she showers, while she sleeps, while she touches herself and whispers into the dark like she's begging for someone to hear. And Viktor hears everything. He knows the exact way she takes her coffee (black, two sugars). He knows the route she takes on the metro every morning at 7:15 sharp. He knows the soft little gasps she makes when she comes on Thursdays, fingers buried deep, back arched against the bathroom tiles. He's memorized it all, jerked off to it in the back of his Maybach more times than he can count, and now the obsession has burned away whatever patience he had left.....

**THE BROKEN BENEFACTOR** War doesn't end when the plane lands. Lance Corporal **Ethan Raye** comes home from Syria alive-but barely. Once a proud Marine with a future, a fiancée, and a body he could trust, Ethan is now trapped inside pain, nightmares, rage, and a disability he never asked for. The battlefield took pieces of him. The silence at home threatens to take the rest. His fiancée, **Charlotte**, promised to stand beside him. But love looks different when the man who returns is no longer the man who left. Then comes **Valerie**. After a chain of family tragedies destroys the life she was trying to build, Valerie is forced to drop out of college and return home to save the family house and the land her parents sacrificed everything for. Taking a job as a healthcare worker is supposed to be survival. A paycheck. A way to keep her family from losing the last thing they have left. She never expects Ethan Raye. He is wounded, angry, guarded, and drowning in secrets. She is exhausted, determined, and carrying burdens no one sees. Every day she cares for him, Valerie learns that some pain does not bleed where people can see it-and some men are not broken because they are weak, but because they have been strong for too long. But Ethan's past is not finished with him. Secrets buried before the war begin rising. Charlotte's love may not be as steady as it seems. Valerie's heart becomes the one place Ethan starts to feel human again. And when suffering, loyalty, guilt, and desire collide, one question becomes impossible to ignore: Can a woman fighting to save her own home help a wounded soldier find his way back to his? **He lost himself for his country. She helped him find his way back home.** A gripping **military romance**, **wounded hero romance**, **caregiver romance**, and emotional **interracial romantic suspense** about sacrifice, survival, forbidden feelings, family secrets, and the kind of love that finds you when life has already torn you apart

Charisse Colton is a brilliant, on-the-spectrum stats nerd focused on becoming the NFL's top analyst. Bentley Hemings is the massive, cocky football star carrying a mountain of family pressure. When a mandatory partnership forces them together, Charisse's need for structure clashes with Bentley's need for sanctuary, leading to a passionate, disciplined love that uses intellect as the ultimate foreplay.

After fleeing her abusive ex in the middle of the night, Chloe Dawson arrives in a small coastal town with nothing but a duffel bag, a crying six-month-old baby, and the last of her savings. She rents a tiny apartment where the walls are paper-thin. Next door lives Sergeant Mason Kane, disciplined, exhausted, emotionally closed off, and currently on leave between military assignments. After years in the army, silence is the only thing that helps him sleep. Then the baby starts crying every night. At first, Mason is irritated. Chloe is terrified of him. Every knock on the door reminds her of the man she escaped.

𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐕𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐞𝐬. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥. Forced into a Bratva marriage to settle a blood debt, Alina is delivered to the Reznikov estate like an offering - silent, soft-spoken, and smart enough to know that survival means obedience. Aleksei Reznikov is the coldest man she's ever met. He doesn't raise his voice. He doesn't touch her. He barely looks at her. But beneath his stillness lies a storm. He rules with silence, kills with precision, and makes promises in Russian that chill her to the bone. He tells her not to run. That she belongs to him now. That if she disobeys, he won't raise a hand - he'll break her with nothing but words. But as walls crumble and secrets unravel, the most dangerous thing of all isn't the violence outside their gates. It's the quiet pull between a girl who was never supposed to matter... And the man who swore he wouldn't feel. A slow-burn, dark arranged marriage romance. He's a Bratva heir. She's his obligation. So why is he starting to look at her like she's everything? 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 ༺༒︎༻ 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 ✓ 𝟔𝟒 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬

Everyone expected the quiet princess to die. The tyrant king had buried wives before, and the fragile girl forced to marry him was supposed to become just another forgotten tragedy. But the soft-spoken queen does something no one expected. She survives. While the court fears the monster on the throne, she remains beside him calm, gentle, and far stronger than anyone realizes. At first, the king tells himself she is simply useful. Her mind is sharp. Her kindness dangerous in a palace built on cruelty. And kings protect what is useful. But the longer she stands beside him, the more the kingdom begins to notice something unsettling. The tyrant who trusted no one now watches her like she is the most valuable thing in his world. His words remain cold. His temper still deadly. But everyone can see the truth the king refuses to admit. The monster on the throne has fallen in love. And the quiet queen who was supposed to die has learned something even more dangerous The only way anyone could ever hurt her... Is by surviving the king who would burn kingdoms to the ground to protect what belongs to him. (Book 1 )