Ariana Fletcher & Dave East ....

Before the crowds screamed his name, before the league talks and the magazine covers, he met her. Calista Marchand. Not the kind of girl you run game on. She was sharp where it counted, soft only when she wanted to be. Real Brooklyn - pretty in the face, slick with the mouth, and solid with her hands if you stepped wrong. She kept her circle small, her loyalty tighter. The kind of woman who knew how to turn silence into safety and side-eyes into shut-ups. Men feared her. Girls tried to be her. She didn't chase, didn't fold, didn't need nobody. Until Ibrahim Montaigne walked into her life like he had all the time in the world. He didn't come with sweet nothings or flashy promises - just steady presence. Intent in his eyes, patience in his chest, and something rare behind the way he looked at her. Like he saw through the polish and the fire, like he knew the woman behind the defense. He didn't try to tame her. He studied her. Let her be exactly who she was. The shift was slow. She still fought when needed, still had a rep in the streets and in the salon chair. But somewhere between nursing exams and late-night block parties, she started saving parts of herself just for him. The quiet parts. The delicate ones. The ones nobody else got close to. And when she crossed that graduation stage, RN-BSN stitched behind her name and her grandmother crying in the crowd - he bragged harder than anyone. Didn't care who was listening. Forget MVP, forget the championship rings. She was the win. She was the headline. The girl from Brooklyn with spitfire in her lungs, gold in her smile, and a softness only he ever got to see. This isn't a story about being chosen. It's about choosing each other. No fairytales. Just Brooklyn grit and a love that never let go.

When Lena meets with her father during a big business meeting, things take a turn when her new job position turns into something....different.

"Some scars don't fade - they just learn how to breathe." Layla Thomas came to Harlem to disappear. After losing almost everything - the love she trusted, the future she planned, the self she used to recognize - all she wants now is silence. A new start. Something that feels like hers again. One night, she finds herself standing outside a hidden tattoo studio with a sign that reads Ink & Ashes. Inside is Dave, a man with inked hands, a calm voice, and eyes that seem to see straight through her defenses. He doesn't ask for details. He just asks what the mark means - and somehow, that's the first time anyone's really asked her anything that mattered. What starts as one tattoo becomes a ritual. Late nights turn into confessions between strangers, stories traded in low light and cigarette smoke. But Dave East has his own ghosts - the kind that don't stay buried for long. In a city that never stops moving, two broken souls find something dangerously still in each other. But when the past catches up, both will have to decide if love built from pain can survive the fire that made it.

Two people. Same struggle. Same streets. When their worlds collide, survival comes down to one question - do you save yourself, or the person standing next to you? In a place where morals get tested and loyalty's never guaranteed, what really defines you - your past, or your heart?

🔞⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This story is VERY mature and will contain very descriptive explicit scene. Not limited to violence and sex. Please be advised ⚠️ Also, I do not own any image used in this book. Images are strictly for entertainment and visuals. All right belong to the originator and owner. In the shadows of Chicago's South Side, where luxury homes border bullet-riddled alleyways and heartbreak wears designer, Yodit "Jodi" Yemane is caught between two worlds. Born into wealth but raised by a mother drowning in vodka and silence, Jodi's life behind marble walls is anything but perfect. Her Eritrean heritage gives her pride, but also pressure-to be strong, to be silent, to carry what others drop. Enter Rakeem-street-smart, diamond-grilled, and hustling just hard enough to survive. He's not her type on paper, but life ain't written in ink. Torn between his loyalty to the streets and his toxic situationship with Raven, Rakeem finds solace in Jodi's presence-even if neither of them will admit what's growing between them. They're not lovers. Not yet. Just two broken souls orbiting each other, clinging to connection in a world that keeps trying to erase them. But as secrets surface, trauma tightens its grip, and promises turn to ash, they'll have to decide: is love real when everything else around you is fake? "Broken Promises & Blunt Truths" is a slow-burn, raw, urban tale about class, culture, addiction, loyalty-and the kind of love that only the realest can survive. Started July 21, 2025 Love in the Streets Copyright July 2025 NeyTheCreator

"I'm a Nymphomaniac. I'm a sex addict. Being my woman is intense, and most women think they can handle it, can handle everything I can give to your mind, your body and soul," His voice whispered in her ear as he removed all space from between them. "I think you can handle me, do you?" Aziel is a man that chose celibacy to control his addiction, promising to not even open the door unless he knows it'll never have to be closed. Finding a woman that could accept and take care of his needs was unfound, not for the lack of trying. So when he felt this pull to a woman, he knew that she was the one, one who could take all that he had to give. Sabriya was a woman you would describe as having a high sex drive. Although she had class, there was no shame in her game of bringing men home on the first night. Sex was something she truly enjoyed but ever since her last relationship, that was the first taste of sex with emotions attached. It changed her views, it ruined her having one night stands. When she meets him, his self control with sex was new, but it turned her on. Will Sabriya be able to handle everything that comes with Aziel or will it become too much?

Please read My Secret Treasure and Our Family before starting this one. This is Book 3! The Brewster kids all are grown up now. Take the journey with them as they discover what Love & Trust really has in store with them. Can they take different paths than they parents did? Or fall in too deep with the ones they were only supposed to be friends with?