[COMPLETED] You never know what you have until you are about to lose it.

la douleur exquise: the exquisite pain of wanting someone that you know you can never have. a harry styles short story

"It's in your blood baby, go on then, show me you're more than just daddy's little girl." He taunts in my ear as he walks around me like a predator trapping its prey. Secrets are only good for so long. How many secrets can one keep before they all become too much? Aurora is a 22 year old girl from Malibu who's life seemed normal, until it wasn't. With secrets piling up, will she be able to handle them all, or will it all be too much? *This story contains mature and explicit content* *No affiliation with Harry or Niall, just a face and name* No translations or interpretations without approval *COMPLETE*

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. "Y-you want to kill me?" "No, I want to ruin you." Death Hood. A cloaked serial killer that leaves behind blood trails, corpses with the same cause of death and nightmares that makes everyone forget what dreams are like. Everyone has thoughts and theories but not even the professionals could figure out Death Hood's motives or identity. However, all it took was for one girl, an assistant at Malik Creations, to have one glass too many of wine and a tempting case file to discover that the face under the skull mask is Harry Styles, the owner of a Halloween Store, when no one else could've. *this story contains mature and explicit themes* Started: June 28th, 2022. Finished: November 9th, 2023.

All Harry Styles ever wanted to do was play hockey. It was his passion in life, and the only thing he ever really felt he was good at. Without it, he was lost. After a tragic series of events leaves him feeling angry and unsure of his future, he knows he is falling into a pattern of bad behavior. His daily fight to escape the past and move on with his life is weighing on him, so when he is given one final shot at playing college hockey he knows it's his only option. Eager to get the hell out of England, Harry earns a spot playing for the University of Michigan and takes his opportunity at a fresh start. However, he soon discovers that his new start is full of it's own challenges and maybe running from his past wasn't as easy as he thought. He is thrown into the middle of a controversy that helps him realize that maybe he can make things right in a way he never could before. **Absolutely no reposting or translating of this story. NO EXCEPTIONS.

He lives in daydreams with me. Harry Styles daydreams that I turned into one shots & short stories. -coarse language, sexual content. 18+. I DO NOT CONDONE TRANSLATIONS OR PDF PRINTING OF MY WORK.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Dance was Phoebe's one true love. More than frozen grapes. More than lavender. More than the mountains in Tacoma. More than me. In which, Phoebe Mitchell, aspiring ballerina and part-time gas station clerk, meets Harry Styles, vet tech and all-around sweetheart. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. **Warning: contains mature content**

For the longest time he's been observing, calculating every move. "Would you let me have you? Would you let me be obsessed with you? Because you're so addictive and I don't think I can stop once I've started." But things are not always as they appear to be... ______________________________ •CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT/THEMES, EXPLICIT LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE, ABUSE, MANIPULATION •

[Completed] [MATURE CONTENT] ** Reader's discretion advised (18+) Smut chapters are indicated with an (*) - Excerpt chapter 3 - I had been dreaming about her all week, and now she was for sure not going to leave my brain. I had been fucking my fist every night to get rid of the image of her on her knees in front of me after I saw her biting down on that pencil at the bar on Monday. So flirty and dirty, yet so innocent. While the thought excited me, to be with someone without experience, I'd never act upon it. I was definitely rough in bed, and I had a lot of kinks and didn't know how to be soft. I'd completely ruin her. But then again, maybe she'd let me. Maybe she'd like it. ** Started: October 2021 ** Finished: December 2021

After a one night stand leaves the NHL's star player, Harry Styles, on thin ice with the almost-olympic figure skater, Madelyn Simmons, the two people who are most comfortable on the ice will need to set aside their differences as Madelyn embarks on a new pathway as the hockey team's physical therapist. Between navigating an injury and a scandal, the two just might learn that being in sequence off of the ice is where they connect best.