⚠️ Content Warning: This book contains mature and potentially distressing content, including: • Sexual content and explicit intimacy • abuse and trauma • violence • Mental illness • Power exchange dynamics (BDSM, DDLG - between consenting adults) • Language and themes intended for a mature audience (18+) SUBMIT He wanted obedience. She gave him everything else instead. Alice doesn't plan on falling in love. Not after what she's survived. Shy, soft-spoken, and freshly relocated to London with her best friend, she just wants a quiet life: college, tea, journaling, healing. Maybe the occasional rainy-day adventure. What she doesn't expect is to crash into a stranger on the sidewalk- A man carved from stone, wrapped in Armani, and dripping with disdain. She calls him a tosser. He calls her a brat. End of story... right? Wrong. Because that same man turns out to be her new boss. ⸻ SUBMIT is: 🩶 A dark, emotional romance with cozy undertones 🧸 Features DDLG dynamics (gentle, adult, healing) 💼 Boss x employee / contract romance 🍵 Set in rain-soaked, candlelit London 🕯️ Trauma-informed with themes of healing, safety, and intimacy 🔥 Slow burn, high heat, deep heart 🎻 Soft dom. Tender obsession. Plushies. Violin sonatas. And one very haunted jellyfish tank. The real question isn't if he'll fall for her... It's whether she'll survive it-and if she'll ever stop craving the way he makes her submit.

"What made you think you can go out there and tease me with some other man" said Leonardo. I roll my eyes and say, "It doesn't matter anyways it's not like you want me" He chuckles darkly and grabs me by the neck and says, "Well if you want to be treated like a whore then that's what you'll get" His lips attach to my neck as I straddle his lap and he says, "Now undress and touch yourself in front of me and if you cum baby" he chuckles darkly and says, "I'll spank your ass raw. Then I'll tie you up, and make you almost cum, then leave you their for the rest of the night, how does that sound principessa?" Katara was just an average girl trying to get by until her innocence and beauty caught the eyes of Leonardo Romano, the Italian Mafia leader but does she know he is and will she ever? This is a story where a dominant man who is known for his good looks and not showing much emotion slowly starts to fall for his innocent yet sassy assistant who happens to be the most emotional person on the planet. - - - Mature Scenes - Gang Violence - Abuse