Loyaltyandbetrayal Stories

No one ever asks what happens when you fail to become anything at all. Natel spends his days shut inside a life that feels frozen: a father he can barely communicate with, a brother who is little more than a stranger, studies left half-finished, and the constant feeling that he is wasting his time. The only thing that truly makes him feel alive is an old abandoned seaside resort, a place forgotten by everyone where he goes to isolate himself from the world. Or at least, that's what he believes. When Danis-charming, impulsive, and self-destructive-discovers the place with him, the two find something hidden behind a door that shouldn't have been there: a perfectly functioning plantation in the heart of the abandoned building. What initially feels like nothing more than temptation slowly turns into obsession. Danis sees money. Natel sees a way out. And while Tony desperately tries to keep the group out of trouble and Vito lets himself get pulled along just to avoid losing the people he clings to, the four of them begin to step into a world far bigger and more dangerous than they ever imagined. Because the resort isn't empty. It never was. Someone will come back to claim what belongs to them. And when that happens, friendships will start to break, secrets will come to light, and each character will be forced to decide how far they are willing to go for money, belonging, and survival. Between motionless summers, family silences, slowly building tension, and wrong decisions made one step at a time, Vista Mare tells the exact moment when four boys stop feeling invincible. And realize too late that some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.

Mara Williams is twenty-four years old, drowning in debt, and running out of time. Working double shifts at Mel's 24-Hour Diner on Flatbush Avenue while her mother Clara fights cancer at Kings County Hospital, Mara exists in that brutal space between survival and collapse-too proud to beg, too desperate to keep pretending the math works. When she crosses paths with Dominic "Dom" Reyes at a Crown Heights loft party, the attraction is immediate but the danger is undeniable. Dom controls drug territory across the neighborhood with a quiet ruthlessness that commands respect from men who fear nothing, yet something about Mara pulls at him in ways he hasn't allowed himself to feel in years. What begins as a transaction-Mara making courier runs to cover her mother's bills-slowly becomes something neither of them planned for. Crown Heights is their backdrop: its brownstones and bodegas, its soca music and territorial corners, its beauty and its blood. As the rival Haitian crew led by Jean-Baptiste Laurent pushes into Dom's territory and a childhood friend's obsession turns lethal, Mara finds herself caught between the woman she was raised to be and the woman survival has made her. Keisha, her best friend, is fighting her own battle against an abusive partner. A determined detective is building a case that could imprison everyone Mara loves. Crown Heights is a slow-burning interracial love story about the price of surviving a world designed to crush you-and what it costs to find redemption once you've already paid. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R.H.

"She was trained to destroy them. Fate made them family." Baek Areum grew up longing for something simple-older brothers. The kind who'd ruffle her hair, glare at her crushes, and protect her from the world. Just deep down. Instead, she had a cold childhood wrapped in shadows, raised by her father-an elite spy high ranked officer in a covert government organization targeting South Korea's most dangerous crime syndicates. Their #1 target? The Bangtan Mafia. And the main masked faces, the seven, who handled different brancehs of the syndicate. Seven kings of the underground. Unmatched. Untouchable. Until now. But when her father is killed under suspicious circumstances, Areum's world collapses. The agency turns silent. The mission is buried. And the only lifeline she has left is a phone call from the mother who abandoned her a decade ago. The catch? Her mother is now married to one of Korea's wealthiest men... and Areum suddenly finds herself with seven new stepbrothers. Cold. Charismatic. Deadly. And all too familiar. Because these aren't ordinary brothers. They are Bangtan-the very men she was raised to infiltrate and destroy. Now trapped in a mansion lined with secrets and scars, Areum must hide her identity, dodge suspicion, and survive living under the same roof as the seven criminals her father died trying to expose. But as tensions ignite, secrets bleed, and forbidden bonds begin to form... #Started: June 9, 2025 #Ended: ---

They say the Moon watches over the night. But what happens when the Moon falls... and the Night Queen awakens?" A kingdom in ruins. A love betrayed. And a girl lost between who she was... and who she must become. Once a princess wrapped in moonlight, now a shadow bound by memory, Nayra walks a path stitched with lies, longing, and a destiny she never chose. She forgot who she was. But the night remembers - and it's not done with her yet.

While İnci is fleeing from a group of mafia members, she pushes the gas pedal to the limit. As she looks back in a narrow street, she notices the black Porsche coming toward her at the last second and swerves the wheel to the left. Her car becomes completely unusable. Without wasting a second, İnci gets into the black Porsche and tells the man to step on the gas. Not understanding what's happening, Timur is momentarily stunned by İnci's beauty, but he fulfills her request and accelerates. İnci manages to escape from the men-but she has no idea who actually owns the car she is now sitting in.

When Serena Voss returns home to Redwood Heights after her father's sudden death, she only plans to close his auto shop and leave. But everything changes when she discovers encrypted notes, hidden bike parts, and proof that her father was tied deeply to the Iron Serpents MC-and may have been killed for what he knew. The Serpents' cold and feared president, Roman "Viper" Hale, warns her to stop digging. He claims her father was loyal. Serena believes he was silenced. Their clash sparks a dangerous tension neither can control. When a rival club, the Night Banshees, targets Serena for her father's designs, she's forced under the Serpents' protection-whether she likes it or not. Secrets unravel. Loyalties shift. Serena realizes her father wasn't just a mechanic... he built something both clubs are willing to kill for. As the Banshees close in and betrayal rises within the Serpents, Serena and Viper are pulled together by danger, desire, and the truth neither of them is ready to face. In a world ruled by brotherhood, bloodshed, and asphalt, Serena must decide: Will she run from the life that destroyed her family, or become the fire that changes everything?

A Narnian tale of loyalty and justice.... Allegiance: the loyalty of a citizen to his or her government or of a subject to his or her sovereign; loyalty or devotion to some person, group, cause, or the like. All her life, Reagan has known three things without wavering doubt. 1) The gods were something to be to revered and feared, 2) the Telmarines were a peaceful and thriving nation and 3) she was going to marry Caspian X and become Queen of Narnia. Those beliefs are thrown into turmoil the moment Caspian is kidnapped by a rogue band of Narnians that, by all accounts, should have been extinct. When a truth darker than any she could imagine begins to reveal itself, Reagan begins to question her allegiance. Will she stand with the nation that raised her, taught her, the nation that she was destined to rule? Or will she stand with a group of strangers accused of treason and the man she was meant to marry?

The city bleeds power - not from politicians or police, but from high school gangs hiding in plain sight. Three boys rise without asking permission: Kairo, the mind behind the moves. Eddie, the voice behind the chaos. Lucas, the fists behind the fear. They don't lead together. They don't even like each other. But the streets don't care - they just want blood. As turf wars explode, a new enemy watches from the shadows. One move, one mistake, and everything they've built could burn. They didn't choose the name. The city gave it to them. CROWNLESS.

In the shadow of war, a noble conscript and a feared general find something they were never meant to have-each other. But love born on bloodstained soil cannot bloom in peace. Not when oaths are weapons. Not when kingdoms are watching. And not when the only thing more dangerous than losing a war... is falling in love.

In a future torn by war, Captain Crystal Mariano fights to uncover the truth behind her sister's disappearance. But when loyalty bleeds into betrayal and science turns soldiers into monsters, one secret lab will decide who's still human-and who's already gone.

A tale of two boys and one girl

📖 Author's Note: Title : "Haven and He'll" : session Two (ii) { Read session one... Way of Haven before reading session Two... Haven and He'll.} Way of Haven: Session One (i) isn't just a continuation - it's a story of Haven and Hell. A world where love is war, and peace is bought with blood. Where Dawn fights to protect the life she built, and Hoshok clings to the heaven they promised each other. It's about sacrifice, survival, and the cost of carrying a kingdom on your back while trying to hold onto love. This is Haven and Hell. This is their story.

"She talked back to killers. He made sure they didn't talk again." 𝙃𝙚'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 Italy. 𝙎𝙝𝙚'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙚. And neither of them remembers how to live without the other. Dante Valerio was raised in silence-molded by mafia rituals, crowned in blood. Serafina Moretti grew up decoding languages and surviving behind locked doors. They met in the shadows of childhood and never truly left. Now, he rules Italy with quiet brutality. She sits beside world leaders, cartels, and dictators, translating their darkest secrets. To the world, they're to be feared and yet most demanded. To each other? They're everything. Even if they've never said it aloud. He never asked her to love him. She never realized she already did. But when a global summit pulls them back into each other's orbit- with cameras flashing, governments watching, and every devil waiting for her silence to break- the war they've kept buried between them might finally surface. He protects her like a secret. She speaks for everyone-except him. And love was never part of the translation. Started: June 29, 2025 Ended: ---

The Great Tribulation By BBYJHAY In the heart of New York, the war between the Red Dragons and the Black Pythons burns hotter than ever. Jake-once a loyal soldier of the Dragons-has climbed through blood and fire to earn his mark. But every scar tells a story, and every victory brings him closer to madness. When a mission goes wrong, Jake discovers mercy in the eyes of his enemy-Luscious, a Python soldier who spares his life instead of ending it. Bound by fate and haunted by guilt, the two men forge an unlikely bond while hunted by both sides of the city's underworld. As the storms rise and loyalties burn, Jake must decide: stay loyal to the Dragon that owns his soul, or fight for the freedom that might destroy him. The Great Tribulation is a tale of brotherhood, blood, and redemption-where survival is the only religion, and every choice costs a piece of your soul.

When Rina touches an ancient mirror, she's pulled back in time to the world of Rozafa Castle, where legends come to life. In a land where magic is real and the mythical Zana protect the balance of nature, Rina learns she is the Keeper of the Mirror-a powerful artifact that can save two worlds. But the castle hides a dark secret, built on sacrifice, and a curse that threatens to destroy everything. To stop the shadows from taking over, Rina must uncover the truth behind Rozafa's story, unlock the mirror's power, and find the courage to change history. Can she rewrite the past to save the future, or will the curse claim her too?✨

In a world built on blood, betrayal, and broken promises, love isn't a fairytale-it's a war. Elena Romano was only twelve when she last saw Luca Moretti-her father's cold, unreadable protégé with eyes that saw too much. Then he vanished. Now 26, Elena is no longer the obedient mafia daughter. She's sharp, dangerous, and desperate for freedom. But when her father faces prison, Luca returns-ruthless, powerful, and in complete control. He wipes her father's record clean, but his price? "Your daughter. I want her." Before disappearing, her father signs his empire over to Elena, he leaves her one final request: Marry him. Now bound to a man she can't trust-but has never truly forgotten-Elena must survive a forced marriage that feels more like a battlefield than a union. But Luca isn't her only threat. Years ago, Elena's father destroyed the Bellanti crime family and left its heir, Dante and his sister Rosa with nothing but a thirst for vengeance. Now he has his own empire and having the Romano and Moretti crime family as his biggest enemies. Two kings. One queen. And a city ready to burn.

"I protect him with my life. I love him with what's left of my soul. But he can never know." Alessio Moretti is a cold-blooded kingpin with a shattered past and a growing list of enemies. Trust is a weakness in his world-one he can't afford. Luca Romano has been by his side for years. The loyal bodyguard. The silent shadow. The man who would kill, burn, and bleed just to keep Alessio alive. But when a failed assassination reveals a traitor within their ranks, Alessio pulls Luca closer-too close. Day and night, breath to breath. And soon, loyalty isn't enough. Not when obsession starts to feel like love. Not when blood can't hide desire. In the mafia, love is the most dangerous betrayal of all.