*COMPLETED AND EDITED* "I stand straight up and turn around and he's so close I can feel the heat from his body warming mine. I look up at him and say "you scared me a little" softly. I feel Andreas place his hands on my hips and we're so close it's actually making my heart beat so fast. "Andre-" I start to say. "Shhh schätzchen" he says softly in his thick accent. I stand completely stuck looking up at him. I couldn't stop thinking about how good he looked and how close we were. "I really want to kiss you" I hear him say as he stares down at my lips. " Naomi Johnson, Nomi for short, is a young college girl interested in becoming an Interior Designer for a big firm in the city. Everything in her life is going smoothly until her boyfriend of six months asks her to meet his parents. After the initial butterflies of meeting his parents subside, Naomi is faced with another problem. It seems as if her boyfriend's father, a well to do artist in the city, has an interest in her, and not one of conventional means. Worst of all, she finds herself attracted to him as well, and let's just say it's not due to him being an artist. Will Naomi be able to resist temptation? Or will she give in to the strong, mysterious man? Even though he is most certainly forbidden.

Young and ambitious, Taiden Woods doesn't play by the book. As a man at the helm of his media empire, he doesn't credit his success from playing fair. To make it to the top, he's had to lie, cheat and steal his way there. He's nothing more than a common crook dressed in a fine-tailored suit. A man who knows no bounds when it comes to getting his way. To the world, Taiden Woods is invincible. Or at least, the next best thing. One competitor stands in the way of Taiden and his rise to the top. Career-driven and strong-willed Athena Reynolds is a woman afraid of failure. Her constant strive for excellence put her in charge of Healdsburg Corporation - a leader in the media industry. But a lack of finances, and a power-hungry rival at her neck, threatened to tarnish her company's good name. Athena and Taiden struggle between right and wrong in a fight for power. As business and pleasure become the same. And the line between love and hate wears thin in their conquest to rule the other. There's always the risk of losing everything and the chance to have it all. For Taiden, he'll find he may want to acquire more than Athena's company. Who said all was fair in love and war? Copyright © 2015 Winona Wild. All rights reserved.

//Please note this story is under heavy construction! Read at your own risk.// If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. ~Leo Tolstoy . . . . . . . A flower is to be always beautiful lest it is cast away. A flower is to be innocent and pure. Delicate in nature, ever to bring squinting smiles to those around. A flower is perfect. Always perfect. She was the perfect embodiment of a flower. Her name, Iris. A thorn is sharp like a knight's blade. It inflicts pain and draws blood if one dares to get close. A thorn protects a flower from the wickedness of the world. A thorn is attached to the king, ever guarding. He was the perfect embodiment of a thorn. His name, Luca. She was an iris in no need of a thorn and he was a thorn in no need of a delicate iris. Thrust together by an arranged marriage, the unlikely pair, the thorn, and the flower must now find a way to co-inhabit in the same garden. Bracing the strength of the winter, will their love and companionship last for the spring season or will the cold betrayal of a parasitic orchid, the overflowing herbicide of lies and the perfect perfection of the Iris trample the delicate budding bloom of their affairs of the heart?

⎾ They say, "look on the bright side" and I have. But what happens when the bright side is the only thing I can see? What happens when I believe the dark side doesn't exist anymore? If I keep looking on the bright side, it's just a matter of time until the dark side takes that too. ⏌ From a young age, Zandria Racheal and her little brother Keith learned the word pain. Day after day they are abused by their unforgiving mother. With a father constantly away on business, Zandria has found it hard to tell family and friends about the monster living inside her mother. The fear of judgement, abandonment and change forces Zandria to keep the abuse a secret. To cope, she builds walls, high walls. When she steps out the front door or when she records a new video for her YouTube channel, Zandria feels she's no longer a victim of abuse, but the perfect sixteen-year-old everyone thinks she is. For years this tactic has been working, but what happens when she meets a certain brown-eyed boy that can see the pain behind her smile? Join Zandria as she learns that everyone has a dark side and the only way to defeat the darkness is to let the world shine its light. *Marked Mature for graphic description of violence*

FlA·vor. noun. A distinct taste. A new nightclub. Attraction. Addiction. Adrienne. When 21-year-old Adrienne Michaels broke up with her boyfriend, Darren Smith, she couldn't believe how everything they built together fell apart. She decided that she will take back her newly-found single life with the help of her best friends. However, Adrienne didn't realize that she would be consumed into the nightclub with the panty-dropping owner named Blaine Harrington, and the drama that lurks in and outside the club set in NYC. Adrienne never thought love would jump at her so fast. Yet, as she fell for Blaine, she knew he'd be worth it. But her ex-lover wants her back at all cost and at extreme measures. And her new lover will do anything to protect and cherish what's rightfully his. Now that they've gotten a taste of her, they'll stop at nothing to have her, completely. ------------ 1st Round of Editing Done as of March 7th 2nd Round of Editing Done as of March 31st Copyright © 2016 by DyahReads. All Rights Reserved. Any unauthorized reprint or use of this material is prohibited. No part of this story may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or by any information storage and retrieval system without written or verbal permission from myself. A.K.A DON'T STEAL. Thanks :)