Organisedcrime Stories

'ʟᴀᴄᴜɴᴀ' / ʟəˈᴋ(ʏ)ᴏ͞ᴏɴə/ *ɴᴏᴜɴ - ᴀ ᴍɪꜱꜱɪɴɢ ᴘᴀʀᴛ; ᴀɴ ᴜɴꜰɪʟʟᴇᴅ ꜱᴘᴀᴄᴇ; ᴀɴ ᴀʙꜱᴇɴᴄᴇ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴏɴᴄᴇ ʙᴇʟᴏɴɢᴇᴅ.* At fifteen, Belladonna Vescari disappeared. A daughter of one of America's most powerful families, she was taken across an ocean and delivered into the hands of a Russian dynasty whose name she was supposed to fear. Instead, she found Mikael Karelin. He was seventeen, dangerous in all the quiet ways, and the one person who made a foreign country feel a little less like a prison. Somewhere between whispered prayers, old Russian letters, reckless promises, and a verse neither of them would ever forget, they fell in love. Then Belladonna watched him die. Three years later, she is home in Massachusetts, alive in a world that once learned how to mourn her. Russia exists only in nightmares now-until an ordinary afternoon ends in blood. And in the hands of someone she loves is a letter. Her name is written across it in a way no living person should know. In handwriting belonging to a dead boy. 𝟖:𝟎𝟕 '𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞.' Perhaps some things refuse to stay buried. And perhaps the most dangerous thing Belladonna brought home from Russia was never her grief. It was the truth she left behind.

Arielle Vaughn arrived in Tokyo believing intelligence could outrun circumstance. She came from a world built on sacrifice, ambition, and the quiet certainty that hard work could open any door. But beneath the city's neon glow and polished perfection, she found a place ruled by unspoken hierarchies, inherited privilege, and dangers hidden behind elegant smiles. He moved through life untouchable. Effortless. Feared. Admired. In a world where power spoke louder than truth, he never had to question his place. Confidence became armor, distance became survival, and vulnerability was something he buried long ago. Their paths crossed not through fate, but through conflict. A glance lingered too long. A challenge remained unanswered. What began as resistance became an impossible presence in each other's lives, disrupting carefully built walls neither wanted to lower. Against a backdrop of glittering luxury, relentless expectations, and secrets lurking beneath the surface, they were drawn into a connection as unsettling as it was undeniable. In a world where appearances mattered more than reality, every choice carried a weight, and every emotion threatened to become a weakness. Dark, intense, and emotionally charged, this story explored obsession, power, identity, and the fragile line between desire and destruction. Beneath Tokyo's dazzling lights and deepest shadows, two restless souls found themselves confronting the parts of themselves they had worked hardest to hide. ©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.

When Tabitha returns to Liverpool to sell the flat she hasn't set foot in for six years, she knows the city holds things she never finished with. Chief among them: Michael Kavanagh. She was twenty the last time she saw him. What happened between them left marks that didn't heal the way bones do. She built a life in London, told herself it was enough, and never went back. Now, Liverpool hasn't changed, but the balance of power in Michael's world has. Old loyalties are shifting, and the family he built his life around is fracturing from within. Michael's working to secure his place in a game that doesn't forgive distraction.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Tabitha's presence is exactly that. As past and present slide too close together, the pull between them feels as dangerous as it ever did. Only now, both of them know what it costs. ******** This City is Ours fanfiction Michael Kavanagh x Female OC BOOK TWO in the BETWEEN US series.

Five years ago, Francheca Bianchi was forced to leave Sicily to forget the only man she was never supposed to love: Alessandro Romano, her father's right-hand man and the most powerful mafia boss's most trusted lieutenant in Italy. When she returns, she discovers that the past never truly stays buried. Forgotten letters, hidden alliances, betrayals, and long-buried secrets begin to surface, forcing her to question everything she believed about her family... and about the man she had always considered her enemy. In a world where loyalty is worth more than blood, and a single mistake can cost a life, love may be the greatest sin of all.

She had traveled to Seoul expecting nothing more than a summer of ordinary adventures. Instead, she found herself inside a world where silence carried more weight than words, and danger wore the face of a man who refused to let her leave. He was younger than her, colder than the city he controlled, and entirely uninterested in being anyone's idea of a hero. A kkangpae by blood and by choice, he believed protection and possession were the same language. She believed otherwise. Their first meeting was not romantic. Their first weeks were not gentle. What grew between them happened in the spaces between arguments, through rain against window glass, in the quiet of rooms where neither dared to speak first. Then she escaped, returned to the life she had promised herself, and discovered that some departures leave deeper roots than any stay. Years later, he found her again on a Charlotte street, older and guarded, walking beside a child, his eyes. The boy did not know him. The woman who had raised him alone had no intention of sharing what she had built. But the past does not remain buried simply because the surface looks peaceful, and the organization he never abandoned had a way of reaching across oceans. This is not a redemption story. It is not a story about a dangerous man becoming safe. It is the story of a woman who learned that love could exist without rescue, and a man who spent seven years searching for the only person who ever made him question what control truly costs. © _RelleLebby_// R. L.

She arrived in Tokyo expecting family. What she found was a cage with beautiful bones. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Hamada has spent her whole life existing between categories, never quite belonging anywhere. When a one-way ticket brings her to Japan, she walks into something worse than displacement: a transaction. Her stepfather's debts have been settled with her body, and a powerful yakuza heir is waiting to collect. She was not supposed to fall in love. She was not supposed to find someone who saw her completely and chose her anyway. And the boy she loves was not supposed to pay the price he pays. Now Lydia is trapped inside a gilded nightmare of surveillance, sedation, and systematic control, performing obedience while building something no one is supposed to see. She has one chance. One network of quietly terrified people making small choices that add up. One man who broke his contract to stand between her and the worst of it. And a rage she has learned to compress into patience. Bride Price is a slow-burn dark romance set in Tokyo, centering a Black and Japanese protagonist in an interracial love story that does not flinch from the cost of what love means in a world that has decided you belong to someone else. Mature themes. Explicit content. Part One: The Fall. ©️ _RelleLebby_//R. L.

Blood gives power. Love gives access. Together, they can become leverage.

She was hired to keep him alive. She did not plan on anything else. Janelle Thompson was a Black American ex-special operations soldier running from a betrayal that ended her career and nearly ended her belief in other people. She took a long-term protection contract in Shanghai: a diplomat's reckless son, a credible assassination threat, a job that should have been clean. Liang Jun was arrogant, careless, and furious about needing protection. He did everything wrong. He was also, slowly and against every reasonable expectation, someone she was not prepared for. The threat surrounding them ran deeper than a hired contract. Enemies were embedded in people Jun trusted. The organization hunting him was patient, resourceful, and closer than either of them knew. And the man from Janelle's past who showed up in China offering help had his own agenda, and she knew the shape of his help from the inside. The closer they got to the truth, the more dangerous everything became. The closer they got to each other, in stolen hours and 3 a.m. honesty and the specific intimacy that followed surviving something together, the harder it was to pretend there was still a line between the job and what this had become. This was not a quick burn. Nothing here came easily. The trust cost something. The love cost more. ©️ Relle H

Naomi Kingston spent twenty-seven years as the reliable daughter, the competent employee, the invisible woman who kept everyone else's life running while her own slowly suffocated. When she finally walked away-quit her job, sold her things, bought a one-way ticket to Japan-she told herself she was running toward freedom. She did not expect to collide with a man whose entire existence was built on the exact things she had escaped: control, obligation, and inherited violence. Ryūji Kurogane was born into power, trained in blood, and married to a woman he respects but does not desire. He has spent a decade performing absolute control while quietly suffocating beneath it. He does not believe in rescue. He does not believe in redemption. He believes in power, loyalty, and the elimination of complications. Then Naomi Kingston walks into his nightclub, stares at him with an expression not of fear, and becomes the complication he cannot eliminate. What begins as escape becomes captivity. What begins as passion becomes obsession. And what begins as a single reckless night becomes a pregnancy that ties her to the most dangerous man in Osaka's criminal underworld. This man already has a wife, a dynasty, and a reputation for permanently removing obstacles. When an attack leaves Naomi with a shattered leg and forced dependence on the man she is trying not to need, the fragile structure of their connection collapses into something more honest and more dangerous than either anticipated. In a world of Yakuza violence, political marriages, and blood loyalty, two damaged people must decide whether love that begins in deception can ever become something true-and whether the freedom they both crave can survive the price of choosing each other. This is not a redemption story. It is a story about two people who see each other clearly-damage and all-and decide to stay. _RelleLebby_ // R. L.

From Dan Bojack's side; this psychological Mystery-thriller about two lovers who find themselves thrust into having to face off against one another, in their mafia affairs, at that too in their capacities as leaders of their respective organisations, and syndicates, is told. Expect... Burning love, burning betrayal, burning heartbreak, a burning criminal world, and a burning city, with souls came, and gone by. A serious mind fuck! Be warned, there will be some very graphic descriptions of man fucking, rape, and other off setting stuff.

ASHFALL - Synopsis / Blurb Three years ago, Obinna lost his sister. The police called Amarachi's disappearance a dead end. Obinna never believed them. Now living in the shadows of Lagos, the former engineer has become something else-a quiet, relentless investigator who hunts the people the law cannot touch. His search leads him to a powerful criminal syndicate involved in drug trafficking, kidnapping, human trafficking, organ harvesting, corruption, and money laundering. Then he saves Delight. She is searching for her missing brother, David, who was killed after uncovering evidence against the same organization. Before his death, David hid a backup containing information that could expose the syndicate-and now both Obinna and Delight are being hunted for it. Forced into an uneasy alliance, they follow a trail of encrypted evidence, corrupt officials, secret safehouses, and people who are willing to kill to protect the truth. But the deeper they go, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because the syndicate is not just watching them. It knows who they are. And in Lagos, some secrets are buried so deep that digging them up can get you killed. ASHFALL is a gritty crime thriller about vengeance, betrayal, survival, and two strangers who discover that taking down the people responsible may cost them everything.

Emergency Room Nurse Catalina Lawson is no stranger to chaos. After two years at a Level One Trauma Center in downtown Los Angeles, she's seen it all-the blood, the screams, the life-or-death decisions. But when Emiliano Guzmán, the notorious bad boy and ruthless kingpin of Southern California's most notorious criminal organization, is rushed into the ER after a deal gone violently wrong, Catalina's world is thrown into a dangerous spiral. Catalina unwittingly overhears a conversation that thrusts her into Guzmán's dangerous world. Now, she knows far more than she should-information that could be catastrophic for Emiliano and his men if it falls into the wrong hands. Realizing the liability she now poses, Guzmán gives her an ultimatum: join his personal medical staff, allowing him to keep tabs on her and secure the dangerous knowledge she's gained-or refuse, but risk becoming a target. By rejecting his offer, she would be forced to live with the deadly consequences of what she knows. Catalina, who's spent her life saving others, now faces a brutal moral crossroads. The choice before her threatens everything she holds dear-her career, her safety, and a vow to always work on the right side of the law. As time goes on, she uncovers more than she bargained for, and one thing becomes clear: one wrong move could cost her everything, and the clock is ticking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All content in this story is the intellectual property of the author. Any form of copying, reposting, or translating without explicit permission is strictly prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to, using parts or the entirety of the story for personal or commercial purposes. Respect for original work is essential. Thank you for supporting creativity and the hard work behind my story!

She thought she'd escaped her past as a trained assassin by becoming a college student with a fake identity. He thought he was just another privileged heir playing at normalcy. When they're partnered together, their undeniable attraction feels too perfect to be coincidence-because it isn't. In a world where crime families pull strings from the shadows and love is a weapon to be wielded, two dangerous heirs must navigate a deadly game where everyone they trust might be their enemy. As betrayals mount and loyalties shatter, they discover that some cages are made of gold-and breaking free might cost everything. A dark romance thriller about love, lies, and the price of freedom when even angels have blood on their hands.

She was a girl. He was a guy. You'd think that's all there is. But no. He works in crime and her, in a Cafe. Neighbour's that never met. Passed eachother without a second glance. Until she discovers something she shouldn't. Until she sees a side of him she shouldn't, even if a glimpse. He sees. He falls. She becomes his new obsession. Can she survive being dragged to hell with him, or will the journey break her?

Detective Katsuki couldn't forget his most recent murder case long after they caught the killer. Things didn't add up and the deeper he dug, the more questions and obstacles popped up. So what other choice did he have but to follow the bread crumbs to the truth? Izuku just wanted a quiet life, but then Katsuki stumbled in bringing confusing emotions and a forgot past he rather keep buried.

**BLOOD & VOWS** Isabella Moretti thought she knew the truth about her life. She was wrong. After losing her father in a supposed accident, Bella discovers a world of secrets, betrayal, and power hidden beneath the surface. When danger comes looking for her, she is forced into the protection of the one man her family warned her never to trust. Alessandro De Luca. Cold. Ruthless. Untouchable. The heir to a mafia empire. **Disclaimer** This story contains themes of violence, crime, betrayal, and mature situations.

In a world where power is everything and weakness is fatal, Luca DeLorenzo learns the rules of survival at a young age. Born into the ruthless streets of Naples, he is raised in the shadows of the DeLuca crime family, where silence is golden, and loyalty is paid for in blood. His father, a hardened enforcer, teaches him that the world doesn't care about right or wrong-it only respects strength. But when betrayal claims his father's life, Luca is forced to make a choice: remain a pawn in someone else's game or rise and take control. With a mind as sharp as his blade and a heart untouched by mercy, Luca climbs the ranks of the underworld, eliminating anyone who dares stand in his way. From the back alleys of Naples to the skyscrapers of New York, his empire grows, built on fear, deception, and violence. But as enemies close in and the line between friend and foe blurs, Luca must face the truth-no king rules forever. "Empire of Fear" is a gripping tale of power, revenge, and the price of ruling the criminal underworld. In the end, the strongest survive, but even legends fall.

A plan is hatched. A group of nobodies with, nobody stories, are gathered to complete a heist. Not for money or for fame but mainly for revenge and for the thrill. A plan that was thought years for is set into play, with a roll of a dice on the nobody people. But everyone has a story good and bad, who is loyal and who is for the thrill.

[FREE STORY] She stalked him for months, learnt his schedule and made him think their planned meeting happened by chance but even the best laid plans have their surprises. Be careful what you wish for.