{NEEDS EDITING} ....::::**•°✾°•**::::.... 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝟏 𝐨𝐟 ❝𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬❞ ....::::**•°✾°•**::::.... "Death is the easy way out, remember?" 𝐎𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭. A pretty face hiding a thousand secrets. A mind broken in ways only she knows. The world sees her as a closed book, but only a few have glimpsed the cracks behind her innocent smile. Her past is a shadow that haunts her every move. An unsettling loss, a family fractured beyond repair. People disgust her, but there's one who stands out: a charming, dangerous man who might just be the one to pull her in. 𝐗𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐨. Dark, enigmatic, and drawn to chaos. He doesn't play by the rules, but when he meets her, the rules no longer seem to matter. A man with a dark past and an even darker secret, Xavier has always gotten everything he wanted. Until he crosses paths with the one woman he can't ignore. She's everything he never knew he needed and everything he shouldn't want. As their worlds collide, the lines between love and betrayal blur. Xavier has a past he's kept hidden, and Olive is about to learn the hard way that nothing is ever as it seems. Trust is a fragile thing, and once it's broken, there's no way to put it back together. What happens when two broken souls realize they're not so different after all? And when betrayal cuts deeper than anything either of them could have prepared for? ....::::**•°✾°•**::::.... #1 in newstorys - 12/16/22 #1 in rivalry - 12/18/22 #1 in poledancing - 12/31/22 #1 in groups - 12/31/22 #1 in drama - 12/31/22

Book One in the "Alcaraz Duology" 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐛 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐲'𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐟𝐞 Lucia Alcaraz has always dreamed of a happy ending consisting of her finding love and creating a family. As cliché as it may sound, a fairytale like life is all she has ever wished for. More now than ever since she is being forced to marry a man she does not like in the slightest. She decides to accept her fate, planning to live the rest of her life miserable and in a loveless marriage. That is until she meets a man who offers her the world. Marco (Ace) Bianchi lost his parents tragically. All he sees in his future is to avenge them and his sister. He will stop at nothing to obtain what he desires. Marco plans to destroy the family of the men who destroyed his. He wants to take everything from them but he never imagined he would also want to take the wife of one of them. A forbidden love story is not the fairytale Lucia expected but will have to accept. While attempting to free the woman he unexpectedly but deeply fell in love with, Marco will take revenge on everyone who wronged his family. All Lucia can do is be patient and hope for her freedom. She has to blindly trust the word of the man who promises her everything. - *STORY IS UNEDITED* *ALL PICTURES USED ARE NOT MINE AND WERE FOUND ON PINTEREST* !!! WARNING !!! This story contains mature scenes and language!!!