"Is it becoming your habit to run away from me?", he says as he has caught up to me and is now walking next to me on my left. I stop and he does the same. Again, I look at him and shake my head. "Lieutenant Commander Johnson with all due respect, but I am trying to hold up the courtesies. First you insist on me walking out before you. Now you are walking on my left side. I am not sure, if you are testing me, trying to get back at me or if you are plain stupid", I tell him, and he grins. Six months ago, Taylor was on a mission that went horribly wrong. She lost three people that were near and dear to her and still has to fight the aftermaths of the incident. When she receives orders to become an instructor in one of the most prestigious fighter and strike tactics programs in the U.S. armed forces, she must face her demons whether she wants to or not. Will she be able to do that? And will a certain handsome and well-spoken fighter pilot help her get through it all and become the woman she once was?

[FORMERLY KNOWN AS 'MY HEALER'] A business arrangement between a personal doctor and her billionaire patient begins to turn into something more complicated when an unforeseen spark starts flickering between these two contrasting beings. *** Thirteen months in a coma changes Jayden Stanley into the most arrogant and detached person that ever exists. With an urgent need to disconnect from the world and his aggressive mood disorder, he only wants to be isolated in his room so he can wallow in misery without having to interact with anyone. Predictably, when a medical physician, Maria Patterson, is assigned to tend to him in the comfort of his home, he can not be more displeased for the 'unneeded disturbances'. In his plan to get rid of the doctor who is nothing but a pest to him, he acts unimaginably cold toward her and basically expresses his hatred in every possible way. However, despite his disrespectful and indifferent attitude, Maria always finds herself crawling back to his regal estate with high hope for his recovery, because she can sense that there is this delicate soul hidden deep beneath his frosty exterior. Gradually, as she attends to him, she slowly starts to see the cracks in his iron shell, realizing that behind his dark façade lurks a wounded spirit. But that is not all. She also can't deny the warm feeling that starts to bloom under her touch: affection for Jayden, and she knows she is not the only one. ***

[2021 Wattys Shortlist] Monica Kelly returns to her hometown years after abandoning it, only to bump into and befriend Liam Belkin-who, despite his walls and issues, cannot help but draw himself closer to someone he can't have. ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎✦ ✦ ✦ After being screwed over too many times, Monica Kelly ran from her hometown as soon as she graduated high school, leaving her brother and former life behind. But it isn't until four years later when she returns, and in need of money and a distraction, she gets a job at the local diner. She swears this isn't a forever thing-when the summer is done, she'll go get her masters and become somebody, far away from the people who screwed her over. But when Liam Belkin, the towns residential brooding man who hides behind a baseball cap, steps into the diner every night, she finds herself breaking down her one rule: don't get close to anyone. And although he doesn't talk, or even smile for that matter, he finds himself doing so every time Monica is around. But when two people with broken pasts come together, there's no telling if two wrongs can make a right-especially when betrayal is right around the corner.

Jessica Simone has earned her nursing degree, and when she's sent to a hospital in Nebraska, she feels the Lord had blessed her. Her fiancé who had been reported missing during the war is alive and in the hospital. Although his face is bandaged, she doesn't need to see him to know that he's the man she loves. If only he would remember her. But then other complications arise and her loyalty is pulled in two different directions. Can she rely on her memories to sustain her love, or will she welcome these refreshing feelings of infatuation?

(Currently being re-written & grammar fixed outside of wattpad, I will be republishing very soon.) Josephine Katavana, the sweet librarian you would meet on a normal day at the library, struggling with her anxiety. She thought she knew it all and had her life planned out until she met someone, someone she never knew she would need so badly. Lucifer Luca Valentino, he was a psycopath and nothing more, he was the hot, inked, Italian, owner of a nightclub and publishing office everyone wanted so badly. But suddenly, after meeting her; she was all he cared about. Follow their journey from hate to love, if they have the strength to pull away from each other. ౨ৎ I feel like I can feel eyes on me from the back, but I didn't know where they were from, I turn around slowly to look around but my eyes land on someone else meeting theirs. By the color of the lights, I could make out the dark hair and the muscular form, his legs were spread while he had one leg bouncing up and down while the opposite hand was holding a clear tumbler glass while squinting his eyes leaning his head up to look at me with his neck veins and Adam's apple very noticeable. God that was hot, so fucking hot.

[𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄] 𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐍 𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 30 Months... Almost three years since my accident. My first game playing pro in the NHL and I blew it. Many people have tried to help me but I'm past giving a fuck now. I just want to be left alone to drink my sorrows away. It's clear I'm never going to play pro again, so why do people continue to push me towards getting help? I don't want it. Until I do. All she has to do is whisper, "It's simply a setback. Which means you come back stronger." 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐁𝐘 𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐑 30 Months... Almost three years since everything in my life changed. I've loved, I've lost, and yet I still have some light in my life. I've been fighting for so long that I don't know the difference now. I thought my career was over. My fear of men completely debilitates me from doing what I have always dreamed of. Until him. All he has to do is scowl at me and knock my son over. With strengths and weaknesses being put to the test, it will take everything in them not to crumble from the pressure. After all, too much weight and the ice will crack. And if the ice cracks, they will have to question if their love is a sure thing. *This is an interconnected Standalone therefore you don't have to read the first book however characters have already been introduced. First book is HAND IN MINE. [This story contains graphic depictions of violence, sexuality, strong language, and/or other mature themes] All Rights Reserved To winnieiswriting@2022

When a cold-hearted assassin who has suppressed every single emotion, kills someone the Mafia didn't want dead, there is a slight battle for power, but when Don Sandrino, the head of part of the mafia, realises the man she killed was evil, he starts searching for her, wanting the infamous 'Thorned Rose' assassin on his side to try and take back his birthright of being the boss of bosses that his uncle stole away from him. Savannah is bored as an assassin working for a company, just killing random politicians, and wants something exciting, and that something is in the form of Don Sandrino. There is drama, tragedy, fighting and romance littering every chapter. The only thing is, Savannah doesn't know how to love, she has suppressed that emotion, along with every single other emotion, and she doesn't know who she really is as she has had to live under alias names for so long, always pretending to be someone else. She just does not know who the real Savannah is. Can Don Sandrino pull it out of her? Can he make her love again? Or will their dysfunctional romance end in death and heartbreak? *** "You know, anyone who calls me Fabricio usually ends up dead, or really hurt, anyone who dares call me Pugliesi gets their tongue chopped off and forced to swallow it, then they die," said a voice from behind me. "Well, Fabricio Sandrino Pugliesi Russo, what are you going to do to me now?" I asked, raising one of my eyebrows. "Is playing chicken one of your favourite games?" he asked, laughing. "Yes, because I always win." He laughed again. What the fuck is going on? I never make people laugh, well I never have anyone around to talk to except Nadia, who never laughs at anything, but still. "I'm waiting for you to chop my tongue out, Fabricio," I was toying with him, seeing whether his threats were real. *** THIS IS AN ACTION ROMANCE, WITH GRUESOME SCENES AND SEXUAL SCENES. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!! ⚠️ COVER BY: https://www.deviantart.com/ivana422 #1 in MAFIOSO

All Evelyn wanted was a distraction; one night where she could have some fun and drink away her sorrows and maybe forget all about her douche of an ex-boyfriend. So when she meets Connor at a work party, she thinks the situation may be perfect and he may be just the distraction she was looking for. Until what was supposed to be a one night stand turns into something neither of them expected.

After her latest antic lands her on the front page of every tabloid in the country, singing sensation Kasia Stevens's manager books Xavier Spiers as her opening act, hoping to salvage some of her reputation. According to the media, Xavier can do no wrong. He's pure and wholesome and entirely dedicated to his music: everything a singer/songwriter should be. Separately, they're superstars. Together, they have the potential to be either mindblowingly epic or entirely disastrous. The world tour is going to be a bumpy ride.

"Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they're even born." -F. Scott Fitzgerald When eight year old Beau Ruby met twelve year old Colton Caine, she had no idea she was meeting the love of her life. She had no idea she'd grow up with him, with his story weaved into her world as much as her own. She had no idea that at eighteen she'd make a terrible mistake and leave him and everything she knew behind. She had no idea that she'd tear his heart completely apart. She had no idea that returning home and finding out that Colton was engaged would hurt her so much. She had no idea if he'd ever love her again. She had no idea if it would ever return to the way it used to be. • • • "The Way It Used To Be" is a dual perspective story told from different points of view over the course of twelve years in the lives of two best friends who just happened to fall in love.