She's stitching her way up to becoming the world's most admired fashion designer, then nearly unraveled at the sight of her dispassionate, devastating smile. Paloma built her way up to the top, self made, brilliant, and certainly determined to become the best, to work with the best. Whatever it takes to craft her name in the couture history. But when her agency assigns her to her next unexpected model Evangeline Juliet Farrah, pristine, eye catching, and as sour as she is bold. Paloma is captivated by the face only temper holds. Forced to collaborate, their mutual animosity builds up between every fitting, every gaze, and every fine stitch that's holding these two together. And the more they work together the hotter it becomes, and desires begin to lurk. In a world obsessed with beauty and control, can two women on opposite ends of the camera stitch something real between them, or will they come apart at the seams?

Depuis le divorce de ses parents, Haven ne croit plus aux contes de fées. Pour elle, l'amour n'est qu'un mirage, une promesse toujours brisée. Pourtant, un soir, en pleine partie de Mario Kart avec sa sœur, une rencontre inattendue vient tout bouleverser. Sur le pas de sa porte : Inna. Une jeune Arménienne fraîchement arrivée en France, au sourire lumineux, aux yeux noisette pétillants... mais qui semblent cacher un lourd secret. Au lycée, Haven devient sa tutrice pour l'aider à apprendre le français. Ce qui n'était qu'un simple devoir scolaire se transforme peu à peu en une amitié sincère, profonde... peut-être même plus. [wlw]

One girl, haunted by demons she never asked for. One girl, holding onto a dream with bleeding hands. One girl, clinging to a life she never was supposed to survive. One girl-and one infuriating woman she was never meant to meet. Aurora Winters, 18, soft-spoken and sweet like spring rain, begins her second last first day of senior year. The wreckage of a car crash last Christmas stole what little safety she had left-leaving her in the bitter care of an aunt who never wanted her and a man who only knows cruelty. Bruised, quiet, alone and unraveling, Aurora is trying to survive the storm. But survival becomes complicated when a certain woman enters the picture. Valentina M. Harlow, 37, new to this part of town, new to the school, old to the weight of the world. Once a sweet girl who ached to be seen, now a woman shaped by silence and cold resolve. Sharp-tongued, guarded, emotionally untouchable, manipulative and entirely disinterested in attachments. She is the oldest daughter who walked away-from blood and businesses, from love, from everything that broke her. It's been seven years since she last let herself feel. And she likes it that way. Until Aurora. What begins as uneasy glances and sharp conversations becomes something far harder to ignore. Valentina sees the pain in the girl's eyes. The bruises beneath the surface. And suddenly, the woman who feels nothing is faced with a choice: walk away as she always has, or reach out-risking everything. This is a tale of longing and danger, where hearts shatter, wounds heal, and reopen. Again and again. A story of two women who were never meant to orbit, yet crash into each other anyway. A story of it all. Of longing that feels like ruin. Of aching that feels like home. Of broken things that refuse to stay broken. A slow unraveling, a dangerous pull. A love that could save-or destroy-them both. Maybe they'll piece themselves back together. And set the world on fire, together.

𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫. 𝐀𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐰...𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐲 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧, 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐞. 𝐊𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐚. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐚, 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞. 𝐌𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐈 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧. 𝐖𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐮𝐨. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐫, 𝐟𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬, 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐬.

「short story」 - there's a darkness that the world hides from you and you never experience it until that cloud appears over your head. when kai mckenzie killed someone on a dark night, she met her darkness and that darkness consumed her. justine and madison is her darkness.

INHERITANCE OF DESIRE Banks Mitchell has spent her entire life trying to do everything right. Falling for her boyfriend's older sister was never part of the plan Born into a family of soccer legends, Banks Mitchell has some pretty big shoes to fill. With Riley and Tatum Mitchell as her mothers, a scholarship to the University of North Carolina, and her own mama coaching from the sidelines, expectations have followed her since she first learned to kick a ball. But Banks has never needed anyone to pressure her into being perfect, she's always been perfectly capable of doing that herself Sweet, stubborn, and determined to make everyone she loves happy, Banks has her future figured out. Play soccer, make her family proud, and build a life with Noah Martinez, the boy she's loved since she was sixteen. Everything is exactly how it's supposed to be, until college starts making her question things she's spent years convincing herself she already knew And unfortunately, Ivy Martinez is at the center of every single one of those questions Ivy is her childhood best friend, her new roommate, and the one person who knows Banks better than she knows herself. She's also Noah's older sister, which makes the feelings Banks is starting to have a pretty fucking serious problem. Especially when one innocent kiss from four years ago suddenly doesn't feel nearly as innocent as Banks remembers Between late nights, stolen glances, jealousy, and an attraction she's running out of excuses to ignore, Banks finds herself questioning the relationship she's always been so sure of and the friendship she's terrified of destroying Because Noah is still her boyfriend, Ivy is still his sister, and their families have spent decades building a life around each other. One wrong decision could hurt almost everyone Banks has ever loved Banks Mitchell has always known how to do the right thing The problem is, she's starting to want something she's been told she shouldn't

"She became everything the world ever wanted and I became someone who had to learn how to live without her." ────────────────────────────────────── This story is WLW || Intersex ────────────────────────────────────── TW | This story includes: •Abuse •PTSD •Slurs •Alcohol, Smoking, Drugs •Language •Detailed Sexual Content

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