Kason "Khotic" Brewster never planned on living long.At seventeen, he buried both of his parents in the same week. His mother died instantly in a car crash. His father held on just long enough to make Kason promise one thing before he passed. Take care of your brother and sister. So that's exactly what he did. Twelve years later Khotic is the man the streets call when things get ugly. Feared. Respected. Untouchable. Everything he does is for the two people depending on him to make it out of the life he's stuck in. He's content with that. Until Beauty Cardwell crashes into his world. Bee is nothing like the women Khotic usually deals with. She's a twenty-five-year-old brain surgeon, a child prodigy who finished school before most people finished learning who they were. She's blunt, literal, and socially awkward in ways people don't always understand. Diagnosed with high-functioning autism, Bee doesn't believe in pretending to be something she's not. She says exactly what she means. And for some reason... Khotic likes that. What starts as a chance meeting turns into something neither of them expected. Bee sees the man behind Khotic's reputation. The older brother trying to keep his promise. The boy who never got the chance to grieve. And Khotic sees something in Bee that the world keeps missing. But loving a man like Khotic means stepping into a life Bee was never meant to be part of. Enemies. Loyalty. Violence. The kind of danger that doesn't care how smart you are. And Khotic knows one thing for sure. Good girls like Beauty Cardwell aren't supposed to fall for men like him.

MY WORKS #7. ❝I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next... I like that.❞ 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝙼𝙰𝚃𝚄𝚁𝙴 𝙰𝚄𝙳𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴𝚂 𝙾𝙽𝙻𝚈. 𝙲𝙾𝙿𝚈𝚁𝙸𝙶𝙷𝚃. 𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙰𝚁𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙸. ©️ 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟺.

"I treated them bad I wouldn't be mad if i was to get treated the same way... so treat me the same way."

SEQUEL TO THE ART OF MANIPULATION Jonika thought the bullet ended everything-his empire, his hold on her heart, and the man she loved but was forced to betray. She tried to rebuild, to bury the grief under the illusion of a normal life. But grief doesn't stay buried. It claws. It festers. And some ghosts don't stay dead. When fate drags Jonika back into the shadows she thought she'd escaped, she finds herself hunted by the very man she once destroyed. His face is the same, his eyes colder, his love and fury tangled into something she can't escape. Now she doesn't know if he has returned to reclaim her heart... or claim her life.

When criminal defense attorney Ta'Miyah takes on her most high profile case yet, she finds herself representing the notorious mafia kingpin, Cayden. He's ruthless, unpredictable, and intimidating enough to shake the entire courtroom but Ta'Miyah isn't one to back down. Determined to win the case, she pushes Cayden to soften his image, even suggesting he manage his infamous temper with therapy. He scoffs, refusing to change for anyone, especially a woman. Yet, as they clash in and out of the courtroom, Ta'Miyah's persistence begins to stir something in him, and their professional relationship takes a dangerously personal turn. Despite being in a stable relationship with her boyfriend Dante, Ta'Miyah finds herself drawn into Cayden's dark, thrilling world a world of power, passion, and deadly secrets. With each heated encounter, she teeters closer to betraying the safe life she's always known. Caught between loyalty and temptation, Ta'Miyah must navigate the sinister underworld Cayden controls while keeping him out of prison. But in a game of crime and consequences, where emotions are as volatile as gunfire, will she survive the allure of a man who lives by his own rules? Or will she lose everything trying to save him?

"𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥." - 𝐒𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄𝐈 𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐒 , a 26 year old fashion designer and the younger sister of the official bridezilla of the season. A young lady who left her hometown back in New Orleans to peruse fashion designing in the Big Apple. But, that wasn't the only reason she left... When she gets an invitation in the mail officially inviting her to the wedding of her older sister and their mutual bestfriend in Tulum, there was one thing stopping her from going was that she had to face the man she once loved and left behind. Her ex-boyfriend, 𝐀𝐙𝐈𝐑𝐄 '𝐑𝐀𝐙𝐎𝐑' 𝐓𝐀𝐘𝐋𝐎𝐑, a 31 year old photographer, living his dream back in New Orleans with his sprawling photography company. So, when his bestfriend formally invited him to the wedding as the best man, reuniting with his best friend for such a joyous occasion should be a cause for celebration, but the prospect of seeing Symone again stirs up old wounds. Thrown together in the paradise of Tulum, Symone and Azire must navigate their roles in the wedding party while confronting the unresolved tension between them. Amidst the chaos of wedding preparations and family drama, their unresolved feelings resurface, and they are forced to confront the reasons behind their breakup. Will they rekindle their love or leave what happens in Tulum.. in Tulum?

How do you continue on with life when your life line has been cut short ? Your reason and your purpose snatched away in an instance-how do you go on? Meet Ohaji, a man who's suffering from the tragic loss of his fiancé Shannon. Twelve years later Ohaji is still battling and mourning the loss of his lover, life hasn't been the same and he feels like it'll never be. That's until a particular person enters his life when he least expect it. Feeling like he's living in hell on Earth until he meets Heaven, Ohaji is soon met with another opportunity of love. What will he do?

When two teenagers who share the same interests but are so different at the same time, are drawn to each other after a run in at the gym. started: march 13, 2024 finished:

Two guarded souls who recognize the ache in each other, trying not to fall too hard but drawn together anyway. Their love simmers beneath the surface-fierce, quiet, and complicated. He's her storm in silence; she's his peace in chaos *Unedited 𝑷𝑼𝑹𝑷𝑳𝑬𝑹𝑨𝑨𝑰𝑵 _® Started: 12/13/22 Published: 12/23/22 End: 12/29/23