⚠️warning⚠️ this story involves BDSM, stalk home syndrome, DDLB, abuse, blood, rape, yelling/shouting, suicidal thoughts, depression, self harm, stutter, tics, etc. Please do not read if you are triggered by any of these, this will be the only warning

✔️ | When you've been controlled by your father nearly your entire life, would you take the risk and escape? I did. I took that risk and escaped my father. The big, bad mafia boss; Jerry Tirelli. That man has never been a father to me. He's worth no more than the scum on the bottom of my shoes. I thought I'd be free after escaping him. I wish I knew I'd be walking into the hands of the most feared man in Jersey. Xavier Toscano. My family's biggest rival. Maybe it's stockholm syndrome? Or am I just simply falling in love? I've been deprived of human contact for so long, how do you decipher the two? ⚠️TW : Assault, Violence, Rape/Attempted rape, Attempted suicide, Sexual content between mxm. Read at your own risk; this book will be dark and emotional. Tw will be mentioned at the beginning of each chapter besides consensual sexual content. ⚠️ Published - August 2022

I want to be the one that catches your eye. I want to send hurricanes through your heart, and send chills down your spine when you think of me. I want you to love me, for me. I want you, and Only you. .... Main characters: Lia Evans (you)- 15 yrs old Collin Evans (Lias twin brother) Harley Evans (their dad) Pepper, the cat Hayes Grier- 16 yrs old Maddison Burton (Hayes' ex) Nash Grier- 19 yrs old Talia (aka Tally, Lias bff)- 15 Paige Hyland- 15 Connor Franta- 16

We were given 2 hands for holding, 2 legs for walking. 2 ears for listening, and 2 eyes for looking. But only one heart, because the other was given to someone else . . . For us to find . . . Coming soon: Endless Summer; Never-ending Love, The 2nd Novel

A mono-syllabic (one syllable words) poem. Had to turn it in for a grade, and got 20/20 on it!