Twisting Stagnation
EdgarMalboeuf
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  • Reads 5,221
  • Votes 327
  • Parts 30
  • Time 6h 1m
EdgarMalboeuf
Ongoing, First published Jan 11, 2014
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The Dreamer wanted revenge. His father didn't bow to the corruption until the corruption took his life. 
    
    The Planner wanted them gone. A rising star, a budding career, taken from him out of sheer greed and conniving.
    
    The Executor wanted attention. A life turned bad at the hands of cruel, ambitious men.
    
    Three rise from the pools of ash in the city of steam. Three rise to meet the challenge of removing corruption, spurred on by a mysterious, unknown benefactor whose hand sinks deep into Erbain's hierarchy. 
    
    They face a dilemma: how much is a utopian future worth if one must abandon all semblance of morality, and become the very thing they despise?
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The Arrangement

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𝟏𝟖+ "Do you have any idea," he started as he licked his lips, his tongue piercing catching my eye, "how much I've had to refrain myself from fucking you over the last few months?" * Three very simple rules was all it took for everything to fail, but does Taylor Thomas and Nicolas Romano abide by them? Out of all things that could go wrong to Taylor, everything just starts to blow up all at once for her. One fateful night out with her best friend, she witnesses a murder commited by familiar billionaire Nicolas Romano, and receives a call from her older brother that he owed the wrong people some money, and now he's been framed and arrested for murder. She decided to involve herself into the mafia world, for all the right reasons. Or so she thought. What she didn't expect however, was to become the main target on their list. Secrets are soon revealed, bonds are built, and time begins to quickly run out. Will they make it in time? Will they disobey the rules? Will love get in the way and end up killing both Nicolas and Taylor? USED TO BE TITLED: SINS AND SCARS

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