Chicago Stories

Soraya Bennett thought moving to Chicago with her five-year-old daughter, Kailour, would give them the fresh start they deserved. Leaving behind a deadbeat father and a painful past, the devoted nurse was determined to build a quiet life centered around one thing-her little girl. One summer night, everything changes. After hearing a loud thud outside their apartment, Soraya opens the door to find a young man bleeding on her doorstep. Guided by instinct and her training as a nurse, she brings the stranger inside, treats his injuries, and gives him a safe place to recover. By morning, he's gone, and Soraya assumes she'll never see him again. She couldn't have been more wrong. Two weeks later, a night out with friends leads to an unexpected reunion when she spots the same man performing on stage. Jeffery Kaisen Harris Jr. never forgot the woman who saved his life, and the moment he sees Soraya in the crowd, he knows he has to find her. What begins as gratitude quickly becomes something neither of them expected. As Jeffery finds more reasons to stay in Soraya's life, her peaceful new beginning begins to unravel. With danger, loyalty, and complicated feelings pulling them closer together, Soraya must decide whether protecting her heart is worth pushing away the one man who refuses to forget the night she saved him. After all, she only saved him once. He has no plans of leaving.

"Ian like these other niggas shawty, ion think you can handle a nigga like me". "This ain't no Fairytale love story shawty, everything don't just fall in place" "You the first person I fell in love with" "Imma hood nigga, ion know how to love"...... ___________________________________________ " I may be a street nigga, that don't mean I don't know how to treat a girl right" "I'm a street nigga, not no fuck nigga" "I'm not them other niggas up in Texas. I'm a real nigga" "This just a hood love story baby girl. You're my queen and I'm yo king."...

Hidden behind a fabricated identity, the last heir of a fallen dynasty enters a dangerous pact with the son of her enemy. (this is the modified version of De Luca, which i had decided to drop due to unforseen circumstances...) updation on sundays.

WHAT WE OWE follows Noah Brooks, a white boy adopted into a Black family in Chicago. After losing his father at a young age, Noah grows up watching his mother work herself to exhaustion just to keep their lives together. More than anything, he wants to make enough money so she never has to struggle again. Through his cousin Rio, Noah is introduced to Saint and the world surrounding him. What begins as a way to make quick money soon gives Noah something he has spent his entire life searching for: a place where he truly belongs. A family. But when someone Noah cares deeply about is killed in an attack meant for him, he becomes obsessed with finding the person responsible. His search for revenge pulls him deeper into a web of secrets, forcing him to question the very people he trusts most. WHAT WE OWE is a dark crime thriller about family, loyalty, identity, grief, and revenge-and how far you are willing to go for the people who gave you a place to belong.

She came to Chicago with two suitcases, a thousand dollars, and a thesis that her committee called a masterpiece. He came with an IQ of 233, a Fields Medal, and absolutely no interest in inefficiency. Janan Aryan didn't expect her first day at UIC to include sleeping on a couch, forgetting the name of the project she was literally funded to research, and being informed - at 8:01 AM - that she had already committed her first strike. Dr. Julian Archer doesn't do warmth. He does systems, optimization, and the quiet, devastating precision of a man who has never once been wrong. To him, Janan is a variable in his research equation - one that arrived fifty-four seconds late and needs to be brought up to standard. To Janan, Julian is simply beyond the scope of anything human. A moving brain. A theorem with a jawline. Definitely not someone she needs to worry about. She is wrong about that last part. Maximum Power Transfer: a slow burn about the world's most efficient man and the Iranian PhD student who was absolutely, completely, not falling for him.

a chicago love story 🤷🏾‍♀️

"The streets held his name, the music gave him fame but only loyalty and love can keep him sane" The money and the fame is just the beginning. Holding down a rapper isn't for the weak. Through the good and the bad, can she handle becoming Mrs. Anderson?

Chicago is home-a city filled with music, laughter, faith, good food, and iconic architecture. It's also where two strangers cross paths when they least expect it, and one simple conversation changes more than either of them could've imagined. Life in Chicago moves fast. People are chasing dreams, building careers, raising families, and trying to make the most of every day. But sometimes God's greatest blessings show up when we slow down long enough to notice them. Malia has built a life she's proud of, but beneath her busy schedule is a heart that's quietly running on empty. Malik has poured everything into his studio, trusting God to open the right doors while trying not to lose himself in the process. Neither of them is looking for love, but one summer afternoon changes everything. As their relationship begins to grow, so do the challenges around them. Family responsibilities, career demands, unanswered prayers, and the weight of past disappointments will test their faith and the future they're beginning to imagine together. Together, they'll have to learn that lasting love isn't built on perfect moments-it's built on grace, trust, forgiveness, and choosing each other every single day. Something Steady is a heartwarming inspirational romance about finding peace in God's timing, healing from yesterday, and discovering that the strongest kind of love is built one faithful step at a time.

At sixteen, Lillian Marshalls did the unthinkable to protect her sister - and paid for it with everything she had. Ten years later, she's still paying. Wanted by the law and living in the shadows of Chicago, she's built something unexpected: a team, a purpose, and the closest thing to a family she's ever known. But the city is rotting from the inside. Corruption has taken root in the justice system, and when Lillian starts pulling at the threads, she uncovers something far darker than dirty officials - a ghost from her own past, a dangerous weapon being deployed on the streets, and a enemy whose grip on the city grows stronger by the day. The deeper she digs, the more she risks losing everything she's rebuilt. Her freedom. Her team. The people she's learned to love. And the one thing she swore she'd never do again - trust the system that already destroyed her once. A HUGE Shoutout to SailorApryl for helping make this cover, your time and effort is greatly appreciated

Their love story began with a fight. Before they knew what love was, they knew how to hurt each other. Dayvon was the cold, prideful boy who hid every feeling behind a hardened stare. Jayda was the quiet girl who answered his teasing with silence, never realizing the boy who annoyed her most would one day become the man she'd love the hardest. At nineteen, they found each other. At twenty-one, they lost each other. For six years... they became strangers. Jayda convinced herself she had forgotten him. Until fate brought them face to face again. One look. One heartbeat. One man she swore she'd never love again. Now, the memories she buried come rushing back the laughter, the tears, the promises, the silence... and the goodbye that neither of them ever truly survived. Dayvon spent six years hiding behind the same pride that once cost him everything. Jayda spent six years learning how to live without the only man who ever made her question what love really was. But some love stories never end... They just wait for the right moment to begin again. Meet Her at the O is a story about first love, broken timing, pride, forgiveness, and two souls who never stopped belonging to each other-even after becoming strangers. Because sometimes... the greatest love of your life... is the one you spend years trying to forget. And sometimes... one meeting is all it takes to remember why you never could.

She came to Chicago to disappear. After her older brother's sudden death, Katherine leaves behind the only life she's ever known, hoping distance will bury the past. But when a hidden box of letters begins to unravel everything she thought she knew about her family, her quiet new life starts to fracture. Then there's the man who visits her café every morning. He doesn't recognise her. She doesn't recognise him. But some connections are made long before two people ever meet.

Every girl dreams that after marriage, her husband will love her and stand by her forever. But what if that dream turns into a lifetime of silence? Kajol is trapped in a marriage where love has been replaced by misunderstanding. Bound by a promise to his father, Abhijeet stays with her but never accepts her. Believing a painful lie, he chooses another woman and builds a new life, leaving Kajol with nothing but heartbreak. finally the truth comes to light. Abhijeet realizes Kajol was innocent all along and desperately tries to win her back. But can love return after trust has been shattered? A deeply emotional story of love, betrayal, forgiveness, and second chances. Is every broken relationship meant to be repaired, or are some hearts broken forever -SECRET LOVER

Kimia Malaika déteste Mason. Vraiment. Enfin... presque. Elle est libraire, discrète, allergique aux paillettes et aux egos surdimensionnés. Lui, c'est Mason, meneur star et capitaine des Phantoms, celui que toute la ville veut dans son lit et qu'elle, elle veut juste voir disparaître de sa vue. Sauf que leurs meilleurs amis sont cousins. Que les soirées se multiplient. Et que chaque "je te déteste" ressemble de plus en plus à un "j'ai terriblement envie de toi". Entre piques assassines, regards qui durent trop longtemps et un secret qu'elle ne peut avouer à personne, Kimia va apprendre une chose : parfois, la ligne la plus dangereuse à franchir n'est pas sur un terrain de basket.

Blurb: Beneath the shroud of Chicago's darkest nights, Ary is given the most important mission of her life. To complete it, she must kill a man-a task she's carried out countless times before. Yet this time, she has no idea why he's been marked or when she's expected to strike, something she's never had to face. To get close to him, she'll have to marry him. As for him, he needs her to preserve the status and legacy his parents left behind. Drawn deeper into his world, where lies are second nature, Ary begins to lose sight of the line between her mission and the truth. In a world ruled by the mafia, where a single misstep can cost a life... will betrayal demand an even greater price?

"we can patch it up good, make confessions & we're begging for forgiveness." in which a detective and a CI can't ignore the urge to trust one another.

Sapphic, Contemporary Romance that is set in a vibrant, queer-inclusive Chicago neighborhood, Mariposa Hours is an emotional sapphic romance about the courage it takes to break through the noise and finally find a place to land.

AU. Ficlets of Jacob Bertrand as an ethical daywalking vampire... ******************************************************** Disclaimer: I own the fanfics I cook up from time to time.

ɪɴ ᴡʜɪᴄʜ, a young girl named, Tatiana Narie falls for a type of man she swore to stay away from. This story is based on von's song "ride". Tatiana and Dayvon are on the run after Dayvon gets tied to another murder that turns everything upside down and puts him in a position where life in prison is almost certain. With his name all over the news and the city closing in on them, there's no safe place left to go. Dragged into his reality, Tatiana is forced to leave her old life behind and move with him through different cities, hiding in plain sight while trying to keep up with a situation that keeps getting heavier by the day. What started as attraction turns into survival, and survival turns into something she didn't plan for-love for a man the whole Chicago police department is hunting down. As time runs out and the pressure builds, Tatiana realizes the hardest part of running isn't the police chasing them... it's deciding whether she still wants to be there when they finally get caught. What will happen when Tati finds out her parents are the ones behind all this. "Would you ride for me" - King Von

résumé : Sous le voile obscur des nuits de Chicago, une mission se présente à Ary. La plus importante de toutes. Pour l'accomplir, elle devra tuer un homme, chose qu'elle a déjà faite de nombreuses fois. Pourtant, elle en ignore la raison et le moment, ce dont elle n'a pas l'habitude. Pour s'en rapprocher, elle devra l'épouser, tandis que lui a besoin d'elle pour maintenir le statut que ses parents lui ont légué. Elle devra alors s'enfoncer dans son univers, où les mensonges sont une seconde nature. Plus elle y trace son chemin, plus la frontière entre la mission et la vérité s'efface. Dans un monde régi par la mafia, où le moindre faux pas peut coûter une vie... la trahison coûtera-t-elle autant ?

𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐃, a young pediatric surgeon from Chicago transfers to Seattle Gace. Running from Chicago and her past to start fresh in a new city. Former party girl with daddy issues, but the best in her felid find herself in bed with coworker as if Chicago was dramatic.