"Am I too close?" I whispered, referring to our first conversation. Times were different now, we were different now. I watched as she fluttered her eyes closed, the sound of the music officially become background noise to the tension. It was giving in just as we did. Just as she did. "Maybe I want you to be..." - Blaine's love life is turned upside when she comes across a relentless Delta. Tatted like a notorious gangster, Niy'Asia makes all the effort to show Blaine how much she actually cares, despite constantly having to put her own feelings aside.

can you find real connection within a power imbalance? true love? in a strip club, in the deep depths of the world where the average person would cringe and flee away from? can you find it when you're balancing between two worlds? teetering between two identities? fighting to keep them separate, safe from the other? what about when you have already written it off? already decided that it was a fairytale? something people tell their daughters so they eventually settle for other people's flaws out of fear from being alone. can you find real connection, true love.. in an industry designed to make it impossible? you can try. #1 in kwn sept&oct&nov '25🤭😻😻 #2 in womanxwoman oct '25🧎🏽‍♀️

PUBLISHED : 25Jul2025 Urban Fantasy Romance (18+), LGBTQ+, Magical Realism Hood, sensual, raw, emotional, mystical New Orleans (7th Ward, Treme, Bywater, Frenchmen Street, Bayous) Queer Black love, ancestral magic, street loyalty, self-discovery, hood justice, and sexy chaos

Bad girls ain't no good, and the good girls ain't no fun..

𝐢 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐝, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲 '𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐞 𝐢 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐲

𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐀 𝐋𝐄𝐄-- 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫/𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐰𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠, "𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛." 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬.

Four girls go through trials and tribulations before finding themselves....

𝐑𝐄𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐘 | SLOW BURNED ASF. " A rare and nearly obsolete word meaning 'the act of loving in return' or 'loving someone in the same degree'. " 𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐄𝐃 © 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐌𝐘𝐒𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐄. (not edited).

𝗧𝗮𝗰𝟬 𝘅 𝗞𝗮𝗮𝘀𝗵 (random ass plot.)

"𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐁𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐒𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐃 𝐋𝐈 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐄𝐄 𝐌𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐌 𝐊𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐈𝐓."