"If you want me, don't take me for granted, If I'm worth more than you could manage," [damage] "harm caused to something which makes it less attractive, useful or valuable" "i've been handling these men like olivia pope. who's gonna handle me?" LOVE ISLAND USA S8

On an alien planet where callous, menacing soldiers rely on sex to fuel their battle rage, one human servant is about to bring their fearsome General to his knees. Joan doesn't remember how she arrived at Zolan. She just knows that, as the sole human servant in her military camp, she must keep her head down and never look the Masters in the eye. Unexpectedly, she runs into The General and breaks the single most important rule by meeting his icy gaze. There, she finds something that forever changes her quiet servant life: fascination. Now, Joan has a choice: resist the General's advances and continue her life of desperate survival, or submit to their intense attraction and allow him to claim her. As war closes in on the camp, Joan and the General wage a second, far more intimate battle. One of desire, defiance, and a forbidden connection that could change everything. *** Zolan Series Book #1 of 5

Laken Maleko has spent her life being told she doesn't fit. Too much. Not enough. Wrong lane. Wrong box. She never listened. In her Samoan family, Laken's intersex identity was never a flaw. It was a blessing. A sign of balance. Of strength. Of being touched by the gods. She was raised with discipline by her football-playing father and grounded by her culture, taught to stand tall in who she is long before the world tried to tell her otherwise. From the islands of Hawaiʻi to the heart of UCLA football, Laken carved her own path. As the first intersex woman to play men's college football, she didn't ask for permission. She showed up, did the work, and let her performance speak. Now the NFL Draft is approaching, and history is no longer distant. Laken is on the edge of becoming the first intersex woman selected in the first round. Every rep matters. Every moment counts. The pressure is heavy, especially when the outside world sees her identity as controversy instead of truth. Then there's Kylie Jenner. Public life, private contradictions, and a connection neither of them planned for. What begins as proximity turns into something harder to ignore. But attraction gets complicated when one of you lives under constant scrutiny and the other is protecting everything she's built. Love and Touchdowns is not a fairytale. It's a story about identity, ambition, culture, and desire. About carrying pride without apology. About choosing yourself without closing your heart. And about what happens when the life you were raised to honor collides with the one the world refuses to understand.

Aiyana was never the type of girl to rely on a man but there was something about the idea of a man pampering her and treating her well that was beyond appealing. When her shitty ex cheats on her, she decides to try to join love island. Maybe she'll find nothing and it'll be pointless, but once she sees those beautiful blue eyes she knew she was fucked. ₓ˚. ୭ ˚○◦˚.˚◦○˚ ୧ .˚ₓ nicxoc Season 7 - Completed Still publishing additional chapters

in which tatum finch is a famous storm photographer that chases storms with her boyfriend and his crew, being the only thing that can calm him in the eye of the storm, and kate carter can't seem to see why. or in which tyler owens ignores the tornado warnings in order to chase tatum finch instead. 🌪️📸🌾🛻 THIS FUNNEL WOULDN'T BE NEAR AS FUN WITHOUT YOU SPINNIN' AROUND!

Eleanor Miller is known as New York's best book publisher, but her family sees her as a failure. They don't care that she has an incredible career and is the most respected person in the book publishing world. To her family, she is missing the most important thing - a man in her life who loves her. Now that her baby brother is getting married, she is flying back home. On her flight, she runs into the kind of guy who romance novelists would love to write. Glen Powell sits next to her and starts up a conversation on their 6-hour flight to Santa Ana. After hearing how her family sees her, he comes up with a plan that gives her the best of both worlds - having a big career and a man who is madly in love with her. What happens when, while stuck for a whole week with her family, their fake relationship becomes a little too real?

Steve Rogers finds himself thrust into an unfamiliar world after being frozen in ice for nearly 70 years. Melanie Jameson, a skilled S.H.I.E.L.D. agent and a member of the Avengers, is no stranger to high-stakes missions and dangerous battles. When their paths cross, sparks fly, and a deep connection begins to grow, but with their lives dedicated to protecting the world, their love is constantly tested. Can their bond endure the challenges that come with being heroes? {Book 1}

And if yearning had a shape, it would look an awful lot like me. ▍ AN ORIGINAL STORY ╱ small town romance! Graceland, Georgia. A town where spotted cattle graze and home is always for certain. Where the girl crowned homecoming queen bleeds for the boy with old money veins and wandering eyes. That girl blossoms like she's expected to, bleeding heart and all, just to wither beneath the man oozing green and gold. It's too late to go back, but it's never too late to try again. Junia Driscoll was homegrown royalty. Her small town notoriety was meant to carve out a pathway to her undoubted success. Her husband, her high school sweetheart, a star athlete, and successful investment banker, had given the girl all she could have imagined. However, the dream had since become a total nightmare. All that is shadowed is brought to light when she agrees to star in a segment disguised as a Mother's Day tribute on a popular talk program, in which her closest friend confesses to having an affair with her husband. Heart corrupted, she chooses not to be left alone in spite of herself. With her small daughter, Pearl, in tow, she forges a route back to the place where everything is comforted by love and lillies. There, she hopes to mend the pieces of her broken heart. Bit by nauseating bit. What she hadn't anticipated was to reconcile with an old friend turned brief flame clad in consolation whose heart had nearly bled him dry. Their shared gloom soon begins to fade, playing host to luminescence. And in that glimmer of light, of what was then, what was now, and of what was to come-that, was where eternity began to flow. ❪ f!oc & m!oc ❫ PEARLJARS © 2024 BOOK ONE of FOUR written by april

the year is 1969 and you find yourself lucky enough to live up in the hollywood hills, spending your days dancing away to your favorite rock n' roll vinyls in an old farmhouse and looking after your wild roommates. the only problem? you've caught the eye of tex watson. how does he spend his days? making moves towards finally getting everything that he could ever want. you. word count: 16,557 please see TWs before reading this fic !

The love story of Tessa Mayer and Jimmy Smith Jr