Derek owns a small pub on the border between the nice neighbourhood and the Orcus in the city Pareo. One day his friend shows up, and the mafia right after. Warning: This is a manXman story, so if that isn't your cup 'o tea then this is not the story for you. Also any 'intimate' scenes will be posted for themselves. New cover made by Elfie (@WriteDrunk_EditSober), thanks a lot! Previous cover made by meisgabrielle (thank you~) @meisgabrielle

In which an underground fighter in desperate need of anger management and a snarky mafia boss make a deal with an explosive reaction. ... Some people were born lucky with silver spoons in their mouths and trust funds established long before they were born; others were born with dirt underneath their fingernails, barely scraping by. Twenty-three-year-old underground fighter Linus Ward was used to the latter. Raised in the foster system and bounced from one bad situation to another, Linus learned early on that surviving wasn't a simple task but having his foster siblings did make it a lot easier. However, when Linus' foster sister got caught up in a con gone wrong, what should've been a routine identity switch and a clean getaway ended with spilled blood on her hands and a target on her back. To guarantee his sister's safety, Linus was forced to make a deal with someone as dangerous as the people hunting him: recently-named mafia boss Teodoro Raymond. A paid bodyguard position with guaranteed safety should have been a good thing. Yet, when sparks started to fly and the lines between protection and obsession blur, Linus was left to decide if he was clawing his way out of the world that's always tried to chew him up, or falling even deeper into it.

"I'm not a kid," I spat back as I glared at him. "Whatever," he said as he turned, his massive frame not even a little scared of me nor my knife. For some reason beyond my comprehension, I felt the smallest of tugs in my gut as I saw him walk away. Everything told me to run while he had his back to me, maybe try and get back to the club and just wait till morning to go home. And yet.... "Hey!" I still called out to him. "Hm?" he asked, his head turned slightly but his feet still carried him away from me. "W-who are you?" *** Seven years ago, Elijah made a mistake. On the day of his 16th birthday, the day everyone has the chance to find their Fated Pair, he walked into school like every other day. Upon making eye contact with Harrison Gramm, his one and only best friend, Elijah's world fell to pieces. "Not you," he had said with such cruelty. "Anyone but you." Now, seven years later, Elijah has found himself spiraling down a road of depression, self-hatred, and drug use with no light to guide him. A whore of a mother who thought nothing of him, a father dead after betrayed them both, Elijah has no one by his side. That was, until a mysterious man came into the bar one night. Will this man be the one to save him? Or will Elijah find him self tumbling deeper into the world of drugs, crime lords, and fated pairs he so desperately wants to get away from? ~this is a boys love story with dark theme such as attempted suicide. Please be respectful. If you don't like it, don't read it.

THIS IS A DARK ROMANCE/PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER. CONTAINS MATURE AND GRAPHIC SCENES SUCH AS ABUSE, MURDER, SA, SUICIDAL THOUGHTS/ACTIONS. Kane has never had an easy life. His biological parents were killed in a driveby shooting, he was sold for drugs by his foster parents, and moved in and out of foster homes. Now 22 years old, Kane fights in the basement of Essence Night Club and lives with his uncle, Damien, who is a gambler. When Damien gambles Kane's life away to a ruthless gang leader, Alexander Ross, Kane's entire life crumbles, or what was left of it anyway. Can Kane stay afloat while dealing with Alexander's ways and facing his past? Or will all his pain cause him to sink?

Lena just wants to be a normal high school student and worry about her high school related-issues but she can't. She's too busy trying to figure out how to earn money. Her brother is a drug addict who borrowed money from powerful mafia family now every month Lena and her mother get harassed by people who try to get that money back. In the meantime Lena is trying to find her biological family.

Kendall Rossi isn't your average thirteen-year-old girl. At the young age of five her brothers dropped her off at an old orphanage which they claimed would be way safer and more practical than living with them and their Italian mafia problems. That wasn't the case. For years Kendall was switching from foster family to foster family. Some were sweet, some just needed the cash, and some had awful intentions. Like Gaston Tremblay, her current foster father. A couple years after the Rossi brothers left Kendall, they realized how much they craved and needed the little girl's bubbly and joyful personality in their life. They spent three full years trying to find Kendall but there was no trace of her. They eventually gave up and adopted a little girl around the age of eleven who would have been two years older than Kendall at the time. May, the little girl did help tie the broken family together, but it still wasn't the same, but they learned to cope and almost fully erased Kendall out of their lives. Until Alessandro Rossi the eldest of the brothers received a shocking phone call that would soon change their lives.

Aza Cruz grandi dans une famille particulière, Leurs relations sont complexes et vicieuses. Et à cause de son père au travail inhabituel, à la tête du réseau Cruz, Aza vivra un enfer lorsque l'ennemi s'en prendra à lui à son adolescence. Ronan Martinez est un Mystère, nul ne sait qui est sa famille, ni quel est son passé. Néanmoins, étant le bras droit du chef de famille Cruz, il a vécu et surtout vu grandir les enfants de cette famille particulière, notamment celui revenu des flammes de l'enfer. Haine, intrigue, amour. Ronan et Aza seront des obstacles l'un pour l'autre.

Elijah and Erica were only a few hours old when they were kidnapped by their mother ,leaving their father and seven older brothers not knowing the twins names or even what gender they are. 16 years later something happens and the twins get sent to live with their family thinking they didn't want them........