Celeste lived a hard life. She lived with an abusive mother who was so bad her father left. After her mom's overdose she was sent away into the foster care system, bouncing from one home to another. Things only got worst when she turned 18 and was deemed to old to be in a foster home. Now she spends her days and night begging for money and dumpster diving to get a decent meal. But her life changes when she witnesses a murder and is taken by a mafia. She meets him and is forced to live with the mafia boss. Him. Lorenzo Russo Highest Rank #1 Asian #1 Biracial #2 Bwwm #2 action-romance #2 homeless #7 Family #105 friendship (January 23-June 13 2019) by

"You're the only thing that I have ever truly loved," he states, leaning in closer. I try to scoot away, but he corners me on the bed, placing his body over mine. "Get off me!" I exclaim, angrily. "I'm not who you think I am. That can't be possible." His face comes closer to mine as he pins my wrists to the bed. "It is possible. I loved you for three, short, human years, and then you left me. Now that I have you back, though, I will never let that happen again." ***** Salem's earliest memories were of her parents preforming odd rituals. She never really understood anything they said in them, but she would always sit in the middle of the big, circled, star and giggle. At age 10, both of her parents died. She was thrown into foster care. Without them around to explain to her exactly what the rituals meant, Salem was never told that she was a sacrifice to a demon king in exchange for all the money they could ever ask for. On her 20th birthday, at the stroke of midnight, the demon king finally comes for her. She is completely unaware of the situation, and she begins to try her best at resisting his advances, but he is very possessive, very persuasive, and very determined to claim what is rightfully his.

Enid is moving across the world to attend university. Away from all that she knows, she soon finds herself at the center of three men's unyielding attention. Three men who are her professors. Inexperienced and innocent, she is the exact opposite of these dark, possessive men. And she is everything they've always wanted.

Dilara Caesar moved to Stanford Hill after going to a private school her whole life, she wants to live her senior year as a normal high school student. The Giovanni's are one of the most dangerous mafia groups in California, but no one in their school knows that. Dilara crosses paths with Adriano Giovanni and her plans of having a normal senior year go up in flames.

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Hide who you are so they can't see your vulnerable side. Hide your beauty so you know how they act when you have flaws. "I hate it!" I hate this so much. I get up everyday, and it's the same nonsense. I go through it all. Wake up, go to the hell hole. Get bullied, cry. And come home wishing I could show them who I really am. What I really look like. "But you can't, Adeline. And you know that." The only person I have to talk to is myself, Sad. I know. ❀⊱┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄┄⊰❀ "Let me go, Easton." "Why won't you let me in?" He yells back to me, tighten his hold on my arms. "I said to let me go." "Tell me why first!" I sigh in defeat, shaking out of his grasp. "You're a bully, Easton. And you know it. You only want me when we're alone." "Why do you think that, Addy? Let me know." "I see it everyday." I shrug, walking away from him. Pausing in my tracks, I laugh silently to myself before looking back to him. Your vulnerability shows, Adeline. No matter what, you'll always be you. I talk about not showing but yet I'm the same either way. At home: I'm shy, but I'm in my own skin. At school: also shy, but I don't show what I have to offer. "Adeline-" Easton reaches out for me and I brush him off. "I've said it before. You're a very fake person, Easton. The fakest of them all."

"I'm sorry, but the way your holding those chopsticks are getting on my fucking nerves." "Sorry sheesh I'm trying to learn how to use them." "Then let mama teach you." xxx In which she doesn't know how to use chopsticks and she just wanna touch her. WARNING: GIRLXGIRL YOU DON'T LIKE IT DON'T READ IT. :)

Johanna and Jose are from two different sides of the track, during the time of a power war between the Blacks and the Latinx's the two cross paths in more ways than one. How far are you willing to go to defend who you are? How far are you willing to go for love? What do you do when the two pull you to opposite sides?

❝𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐫𝐜𝐜𝐡, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐚𝐚𝐝𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐥𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐞𝐞.❞