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Hiding Sparrows
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atypical-alex
Complete, First published Jan 21, 2020
Mature
afterdarkbadboybetrayalcrimecrimeficcriminaldarkdarkromancedramadruglorddrugsmafiamaturemysteryromanceslowburn
She's trying to escape a dark past. He's threatening to pull her back in.

~~~

"You messed up, little bird. So now, you're going to fix it." 

He smirked at me, stepping closer, so that his face was inches from mine. I could smell nicotine on his breath, and I struggled to focus my thoughts, my heart pounding in my chest.

"How?" I asked breathlessly. 

He leant down, and his lips brushed my ear. Then, in a whisper, he spoke, and shivers ran down my spine. 

"You're going to work for me."

~~~

Robin McCarthy has been trying really hard to be the good girl. Stay out of trouble, hold a steady job, and keep her head down. But when an old debt rears it's ugly head, Robin falls back on some unconventional ways to get cash. 

In the process, she pisses off the underground king of the city, ruler of all things shady, Tyson Rhodes. 

Now forced to work off a debt on two fronts, Robin has to make a choice. 

Does she really want to be the good girl anymore? Or is the darkness just too intoxicating?
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Empire of Sin

22 parts Ongoing Mature

The summer before her final semester of college, Nova O'Reilly is dying to make it the summer of her dreams instead she got accepted to the internship of her dreams. Stuck between wanting more out of life and not wanting to disappoint her family she settled on making them happy. Adopted as a child and raised far from the shadows of her true bloodline, she's worked hard to escape the whispers of disappointment from her adopted family but fate drags her back. She lands the internship of a lifetime--- at DeLuca Enterprises, the empire that has a backstory. Her new boss? Christian DeLuca-- ruthless, calculating and down right dangerously magnetic. On the surface he is a hot rich bachelor whose charming ways seems to get him everything he wants. His bloodline is the reason for her true families demise. She's his sworn enemy and to her innocent eyes he's the man she brings coffee too, who happens to be a bit too arrogant. They're fated to hate each other. Yet when their paths collide, sparks turn into fire and fire turns into obsessions'. Christian should keep his distance. She's forbidden. She's a Romano, he's a DeLuca but once he has her he can't let her go. What he doesn't know? Nova isn't as innocent as she seems and in this empire, love ight be the most dangerous sin of them all.

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