Working the night shift means Y/N is used to strange things happening after dark-but the mysterious man living across the hall might be the strangest yet.

Frank Castle is your dad's best friend that you haven't seen in years. When you do, see him again, it's raw attraction. Frank feels this it too and wants to protect you but you've been raised on self defense by your father following your mother's murder when you were 10. Therefore, you're not interested in being protected despite Frank's trying. A slow burn story filled with sexual themes; fantasies, lingering and longing looks and touches.

When Y/N's parents leave for Europe, she's forced to stay with Frank-their family friend and her father's best friend. Frank has always been off-limits, but something changes between them when they're suddenly living under the same roof. Lingering looks, unexpected moments, and a tension neither of them wants to acknowledge begin blurring the line between what's innocent and what isn't. But Frank is hiding things. Secrets about his past, his bruised knuckles, and the life he keeps carefully hidden from everyone-including Y/N. The closer she gets to him, the more she realizes she may not know the man she's falling for at all.

dirty little secret. the rules were simple, don't get attached, don't get caught, and never let your dad find out. you break the first rule almost immediately. the second doesn't stay intact for long. the third? that's the one that'll destroy everything.

Peter Parker and Loreleï Levine seem to have it all. As Spider-Man and the woman who's stood by his side through every impossible battle, they've built a life around love, trust, and sacrifice. But when Loreleï's path unexpectedly crosses that of the Punisher, Frank Castle, she discovers there's far more to the infamous vigilante than the monster the world believes him to be. As a mysterious scientist begins manipulating minds and conducting terrifying psychological experiments, Spider-Man, the Punisher, and Loreleï are drawn into a conspiracy that forces them to question everything they know about justice, loyalty, and compassion. In a world where everyone has a breaking point, one question remains: Can compassion survive when someone is determined to turn it into a weakness?

Allie has lived next door to Jon for as long as she can remember. He's always been just... there, the quiet house beyond the fence line, the man who keeps to himself, the one who never quite joins the rest of the world. Now she's freshly twenty-one, and everything feels different. He's thirty-five, a retired actor who left Hollywood behind for a quieter life, and he still doesn't belong to anyone, or at least that's what he seems to want people to believe. But distance has a way of changing shape when you've spent years growing up just out of reach of someone.

"I-I just, I felt- I felt betrayed and unwanted." "I'll never not want you, Alex." ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── You've been friends with Alex Walter for a long time now, not best friends like Kiley, but close ones. And instead of encouraging him to pursue a relationship with Jackie, you take the veil from his eyes and show him that interfering between her and Cole would be a mistake that could only bring him but pain. In the meantime, he starts to notice that he enjoys your company, maybe too much. Maybe he has always found happiness on it. But thinking that you might be secretly crushing on his brother, he says nothing until everything blows up on his face. And when he gets drunk after a certain opening horse show, he confesses his innermost feelings. ───── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ───── Hi, IamJustLadyD and I decided to post this story here since I'm loving it so much! I hope you find it interesting, it's not yet finished but I'm on it. I love to interact with your comments, pinky promise! ♡ Thank you all :)