All characters and events in this story are completely fictional. If anything seems familiar it is completely coincidental. All situations in this story come completely from my imagination. ________________ "And you need to stop calling me 'shawty', I'm not your girl so stop pushing the issue, I don't want to be just another name in your little black book." I said sounding more appalled than I could ever really be. He started walking closer to me and before I knew it, he had my back against the wall and my left leg wrapped around his waist. The look that he gave made him look so powerful that I couldn't help but be intimidated and turned on at the same time. "Look mami I don't think you really hearin' me so let me break this shit down to you real brief. Imma be around for the time bein' whether you want to be or not, I'm not goin' no where. Just let me have one chance." "Prove it." ________________

***Winner of the Wattys 2015 Urban Award (THANK YOU, READERS! MWAH) *** "Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power." -Oscar Wilde When notorious drug lord Aiden Michaels' troublesome younger brother Keegan goes missing, word on the street is that a hit was put out on him by the head of the of The Syndicate, Vincent Lockewood. Not one to be tampered with, Aiden decides to hit back even harder by kidnapping Vince's beautiful daughter, Ava-Marie, threatening to torture and kill her in three days unless Vince delivers his brother and a ransom of twenty million pounds, but something sparks between the captor and his captive that compromises everything. A/N: THIS STORY EXPLORES SOME ADULT THEMES SO WATTPAD HAVE MADE SOME CHAPTERS PRIVATE. IN ORDER TO READ IT IN ITS ENTIRETY FOLLOW ME AND ADD RUNNING WILDE TO YOUR LIBRARY. Enjoy x

"This was suppose to be easy, nobody was suppose to get hurt". Twenty year old Ivory Santana was what most people would call friendly and caring. She'd be the person you'd least expect to have a father running one of the biggest drug trafficking industry's in America. Ivory has went through great measures keeping that part of her life private while attending college at NYU, that is until she's taken. Twenty two year old Jade and his older brother Ohaji are 2 completely different types of people that you wouldn't expect to even associate with each other if they weren't related. With dreams of one day being as legendary as their father once was. The two brothers were given the task of kidnapping their boss, big Al's enemy's daughter until he agrees to compromise. Sounds simple enough right? WRONG. What happens when Ivory teams up with the brothers and this turns into a cat and mouse game between bonds and blood?