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"They say sometimes the road of life takes an unexpected turn, and you don't have no choice but to follow it and end up in place where you are supposed to be" A mesmerizingly beautiful, altruistic, feisty, adamant, self-reliant. She is obedient daughter, caring sister and loving friend. She rides along the waves so happy and carefree as she don't have any anchor to hold her down, free spirited. "Adira deRose" He owns mysteries within him. He is as handsome as hell is hot, draconian when infuriated. he comes with infarious notorious personality. A Billionaire who can get anything he intends to get, capable of making anyone kneel down before him. But, he who is caged in his past and captured in the darkness of nightmares couldn't afford Seren nights. "Azriel Harrington." Azriel and Adira are unaware of what destiny have been keeping for them. Their paths will cross. she will be tamed, he will cross those boundaries that he drawn around him just for her. She will venture to mend his ways voluntarily or involuntarily. She will exempt him from his nightmares and uncage him from his past. Her audacity will find its way to get in and break down those walls which he has created around him. But... Will he be able to take her hand and past through the darkness or she will be dragged into the darkness...! #1 feisty out of 270 stories 31/5/2022 14/9/2021 #1 freespirit out of 267 stories #54 heir out of 2.65k stories Ranked #137 lovehate out of 6.6k stories Ranking 13/6/2021 #16 watty2021 out of 340 stories #249 guns out of 14.3k stories #461 kidnapped out of 23.9k stories #1 audacity out of 49 stories #760 past out of 32k stories #96 wattpadromance out of 2.86k stories #5 notorious out of 145 stories #272 arrogent out of 7.52k stories

{18+} 🏆 WATTYS 2023 SHORTLISTED ROMANCE Zemira Ford knows a thing or two about paparazzi and being under the limelight. What she does not know is how to use it to save her father's failing business. Not until a certain media mogul proposes an engagement of convenience. She will do anything to protect her parent's legacy, even if it means sacrificing her happiness and entering into a loveless marriage. Sgt. Leonardo Brenton believes love only happens once and everyone should get their chance. When his younger brother decides to marry a stranger for her business, he finds it difficult to reason - especially since hiding the truth about their steamy encounter. With lies being exposed and threatening families' reputations, Leo and Zemira find themselves working together. When old wounds are bled open and secrets spill, ripping them apart and putting their love to the test, Leo and Zemira must decide. Is it worth opening one's heart to love someone, and be saved in the process? Or love, like all things perfect, only happen once. Book 1 of the Redeemed by a Soldier series. 🏅Awards~🏆AMBYS 2022 WINNER - New Adult 🏆 Contemporarylit Ambassadors shortlist - The Fall Awards 🏅Shortlisted in the NA Romance awards. Featured~ ✨ Romance ✨ Profile Mental Health ✨ NA ✨ Contemporarylit ✨ ��������Spiritual ✨ Dangerous love ✨ �������� ESL ✨ Action ✨ �������� Military Fiction ✨ Stories Undiscovered - March 2022 ✨ Bullying Prevention ✨ Chicklit India ✨ Come and sit with us ✨ LY ✨ �������� After Dark ✨ �������� Romance India ✨ �������� Literary Fiction ✨ NA Romance ✨ �������� Fusion ✨ �������� Multicultural ✨ Humor ✨ FreetheLGBTQ ✨ Badass Reads ✨ �������� Series ✨ Newly Written Books ✨ Books Got Talent ✨ New Adult reads The story contains PTSD and assault references. Reader's discretion advised.

[UPDATED WEEKLY] "You may be his world, but you're the only thing that ever felt like home to me." ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Some people never get second chances. Lilah never thought she'd get one with her brother's best friend. Lilah is quiet, kind, and inexperienced in love. Jackson is all rough edges-tattoos, a bad reputation, and a long history of girls who never stay. They're total opposites, and after years of silence, they're inconveniently forced back into each other's lives as reluctant project partners. Once, Jackson was the boy who helped pull Lilah out of the darkness when she was struggling. He was her best friend-her only friend growing up. Then he walked away without a word. Now, four years later, he's cold, distant, and impossible to read. And if he hates her, Lilah's determined to hate him right back. But when old wounds resurface and secrets unravel, the line between love and hate starts to blur. The boy who once protected her is still in there somewhere-hidden beneath his walls, his reckless reputation, and the weight of a lifelong secret he's been barely holding together that he refuses to talk about. Because some second chances come with a price. And this time, it might be her heart.

[2021 WATTYS SHORTLIST] A year ago, Natasha packed her bags and hopped on the first train out of her hometown in Hampshire, England, leaving behind a dysfunctional family and a womanising ex-boyfriend. When she realises running away isn't the answer to her problems, she moves back home for the summer to face them head-on. However, not everyone is happy about her return. Alec, her best friend, is also back after his first year at University. This time, he won't let her leave again without confessing his true feelings. After a rocky past with relationships, Natasha must decide if his love will be enough. When you are young, mistakes are inevitable and Natasha is about to find out the hard way, every action has a consequence. A friends to lovers romance. --- 🏆 1st place - Romance in THE CREATIVE AWARDS 2019: 1st Oct 2019 🏆 1st place- Romance in The Chaos Awards 8!: 19th April 2020 🏆 Honorable mention in Winter Rose Awards 2020, Spring Edition: 27th April 2020 🏆 1st place - ChickLit in The Dream Awards 2021: 24th Aug 2021 🏆 Watty Shortlisted- 1st Nov 2021 🎉 featured on ��������'s New Adult profile under 'There's Only One Bed' reading list. 🧡 3rd Jan 2020 🎉 featured on ��������'s StoriesUndiscovered profile under 'Love Is In The Air' reading list. 🧡 15th Feb 2020 🎉 featured on Samantha from �������� HQ's 'New & Notable' reading list. 🧡 2nd March 2020 🎉 featured on ��������'s AmbassadorsUK profile under 'Romance Brittania' reading list. 🧡 3rd April 2020 🎉 featured on ��������'s Cupid profile under 'Love Conquers All' reading list. 🧡 7th April 2020 🎉 featured on ��������'s General Fiction profile under 'Finding Love' reading list. 🧡19th August 2020 🎉 featured on ��������'s CommunityTeam profile under 'Romance' reading list. 🧡 1st September 2020

"This was just supposed to be summer fun. That was what we agreed on." I tried to talk to him as he was vigorously shaking his head, tearing his gaze away from me. "You were never just a summer fun to me." He stared into my eyes and I felt exposed because I might have developed some feelings for him that I've never wanted to face. Heddy Lopez has just barely graduated and is trying to find the purpose of her life when her friends take her away for the summer before they go on separate ways. Little did she know that an old crush and complicated relationships would cross her way again making her last high school summer completely different than she'd expected it to be. Secrets, heartbreaks, and empty promises siege her over and over again. And they never seem to stop. But how much an already broken heart could take before fully giving up? Started: July (2022) - Finished: August 18 (2022) 123 000+ words

Tommy Sallow is onto better and brighter things. After working a small hometown beat in upstate New York, he's finally in sunny California. As expected, it's the same shit in a different town. Except, you know, now he's near the ocean and miserable NY winters are a thing of the past. So, it's cool. He thought finding love would be simple. The guy who's always there for everyone else just wants someone to meet him halfway and things are looking grim, to say the least. Never one to believe in fate, what he definitely didn't see coming was Amber, a small and complicated piece of home he's never quite been able to forget about. ~♡~ Amber Hill always dreamt of having the perfect family. She thought marrying her college sweetheart and starting a family with him would be her happily ever after. But when that picture perfect family breaks, she's forced to move back to her hometown in California with her daughter, Mia. Riddled with uncertainty over the future, Amber hopes to regain a shred of normalcy for her daughter and reclaim the pieces of herself that she's lost along the way. But starting over is never easy, especially when a familiar face from the past shows up. When fate seems to lend a hand after all, Tommy and Amber's worlds collide, challenging them both in ways they never imagined. Can they learn to walk through life together and find what they've been looking for? Or will it all fall apart?"

❝ You make this messed-up world look so much more beautiful. ❞ Gathering me in his arms, he pulled me close -- his lips seeking mine hungrily. ──────────────── The only thing Summer Hale has ever wanted was to live peacefully away from her secrets, away from the lies. When she pursues to study at Brickfields University after an unfortunate twist of fate, she believes she could live the life she has always dreamt of while finding the answers to a box of letters her mother left behind. Even if it's only for a short while. But after meeting mysterious and charming Gray Stanford, her life takes a thrilling and dangerous turn as dark pasts, disturbing secrets, and demons buried long ago resurface. Sometimes, it's the people who are closest to us that we should be careful of. What's college without a little crazy? ──────────────── 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗘 • Book 01 in the Ruthless Kingdom Series [[150,000 - 200,000]] ──────────────── Featured on ��������'s Dangerous Love, General Fiction, Psychological Novel, and Romance profiles.

*UPDATED EVERY WEDNESDAY* 🎖Featured Reading Lists: •@��������'s Editor's Pick & Spring Cleaning •@TeenFiction Soul Deep •@��������Royals Fantastical Kingdoms and Beasts •@YA Stardust •@YARomance Love-hate Relationships & Top of the School | ��������'s Picks •@Creators Hate at First Sight: Enemies to Lovers •@��������Series YA, Contemporary & Humor •@�������� Friends and Family Certified Bonds | ��������'s Picks •@�������� Explorer Editor's Pick After narrowly escaping the clutches of the Iron Order, moving to the capital was supposed to be a fresh start for Elizabeth's family. Her plan is simple: focus on her studies, secure a coveted place at the Royal University, and repay her family's debts. When she reluctantly attends a party and a mysterious bond awakens with Ashton-her infuriatingly arrogant classmate-her carefully laid plans are thrown into chaos. For reasons Elizabeth can't fathom, Ashton despises her. But Ashton's no ordinary student. He's a prince, secretly living among commoners to avoid the enemies plotting to destroy his family. As the king reveals there's more to Elizabeth's past than she knows, they realize the bond might not be the only thing connecting them. Bound by forces neither of them understands, and thrust into the dangerous world of court politics, secrets, and creatures thought only to exist in legends, Ashton and Elizabeth race against time to uncover the bond's origins. Rumors of war echo throughout the kingdom, and the force drawing them closer is too intoxicating to resist, yet too dangerous to embrace. Will this connection be their salvation or the undoing of everything they're fighting to protect? Highest Ranks #1 in Paranormal #1 in Enemies to Lovers #1 in Alpha #1 in Princess #1 in Human #1 in Soulmate #3 in Teen Fiction #3 in Royalty #5 in Young Adult #8 in New Adult #23 in Romance Started: February 1, 2021 Completed: March 24, 2021 Revised: November 19, 2024 (ongoing)

I stepped forward and asked, "Where do you want me?" It took me a second to realize what I just said. Shit! I placed a hand on my crimson face and muttered, "Get your head out of the gutter! You know what I meant." He laughed, his voice sounded hoarse and deep even when he's laughing. I peeked at him from the gap I made between my fingers. He was close. So close. He grabbed my hand and took me to the bed. Damn! It did sound sexy. His shirt was loose. Too large for me, and it hung on me like a cloth hung on a hanger. He sat on the bed, criss crossed and pulled me to him. ♡♡♡♡♡ The thing about love is... its unpredictable. Even when you don't want love, it just happens. Cassandra is your typical anti-social tomboy where Easton is your black leather jacket high school bad boy. Cassandra and her siblings arrive at Brinkley mansion hoping the year to get by quickly so they can be back with their dad. But then they meet Easton who has a different plan for them. The to-be sole heir of Brinkley Inc., rude, party lover, filled with nothing but rage for the invaders in his house, becomes determined to bring the truth out to world about his father by making the lives of Cassandra and her siblings living hell. Cassandra is not supposed to fall in love with someone like Easton who not only doesn't want her here but also isn't even available. Join these two teens in their journey to find what's right kind of love, or is there even a righteousness to love? ☆ Copyright 2020 @Books_and_nerds (DestinyK.) ADDED TO THE "LOVE, ACTUALLY" READING LIST BY YOUNG ADULT ON WATTPAD! _________ ☆ I DO NOT OWN THE BOOK IMAGE OR ANY OF THE PICTURES IN THIS BOOK. -THANK YOU ☆ I DID MAKE THE BOOK COVER MYSELF (THANKS TO CANVA) ☆ DO NOT copy my hard work. The rules just became more strict and WATTPAD polices are very clear about it.

Daniela O'Brien. Dani is the girl you would say has absolutely no luck going for her at all. Two dead parents, an estranged sister and an abusive, controlling boyfriend who's keeping one hell of a secret from her. At 21 years old she unknowingly finds herself thrown into the darkest life of them all - The Mob. Carson Agnello. The guy you would say, on the surface, has all the luck going for him. At 25 years old, he's the leader of the most powerful Italian mafia in America. He's busy fighting off the Irish Mob who are neighbouring him in New York. They're on opposite sides of the battle, he knows of her but she has no clue who he is, until one event intertwines their two lives together. They suddenly rely just on each other, they need each other. They're all each other has. ✨ "I felt sorry for you, when I saw you. I wanted to help you because you were being attacked by these men. But now, I'm starting to think that maybe you deserve it. Maybe...maybe you're just as bad as they are." He held my stare as I spoke and when I finished, he let out a humourless laugh, also standing up to his feet. I watched him carefully as he crossed the room coming towards me, giving me the same cold glare as before. He stopped right in front of me, close enough for me to smell the strong scent of his aftershave, before he leaned down a little bringing his face closer to mine. His next words came out barely above a whisper but were still powerful enough to cause my breath to catch in my throat. "Maybe I am just bad as them...or maybe I'm worse baby girl." ⚠️ Warning - this book contains explicit mentions and descriptions of abuse, rape, mental health issues and suicide. Read with caution please. ⚠️ Completed - 26.05.21