Life_Under_The_Stars

McKenzie thought she could leave her past behind. Six years after fleeing her small town, she returns with two secrets-her five-year-old twins. But in a place where whispers travel faster than the wind, the truth was bound to surface. When the man she's loved since childhood discovers the undeniable connection between him and the twins, McKenzie's carefully built walls come crashing down. As old wounds reopen and hearts break again, McKenzie must face the ultimate question: can love survive the storm of betrayal, or will it drown in the raindrops of regret?Started: 9/21/22Finished: 12/1/22Completely New and Edited Started: 03/26/2025Finished: Still Working On It. Note: Every chapter has changed-it's completely new and the book plot is the same as the old but it's been redone completely. One chapters aren't the same as these. So, comments won't line up.…

Life_Under_The_Stars

In a world where destiny is often dismissed as mere fantasy, Ariella, a skeptical storm witch, fiercely denies the existence of fated love. However, her beliefs are put to the test when a cataclysmic surge of magic spirals beyond her control. Just as chaos threatens to consume her, she is unexpectedly saved by Draegen, a dangerously alluring demon with a legacy of formidable power.Their fates become irrevocably intertwined through a soul-deep bond that neither can deny. As Ariella grapples with her newfound connection, she must navigate the complexities of her emotions and the enigmatic nature of her magic. Draegen's belief in destiny only complicates matters, challenging Ariella to reconsider everything she once held true.To prove herself worthy of Draegen's esteemed bloodline and the bond that binds them, Ariella must master her unruly magic. Failure is not an option, for it would mean losing the one connection she never believed in but now cannot imagine living without. In this spellbinding tale of love, magic, and self-discovery, Ariella must confront her fears and embrace the power within, or risk being consumed by the very destiny she once scorned.ONC 2025-Main prompt- #2 To be in love with a demon was the last thing on your wishlistOther secondary prompts:#66 It's not a mystery-it's the walls. They hold secrets, but what are they hiding.#126 Because you're you, and I'm me, and we just don't fit.#129 The ink of our souls binds us beyond the pages of time#135 She really fell from the sky and landed right into my arms, I'm not even lying.…

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We're all human, we all make mistakes, right? I mean look at my brother Alessio, he's made plenty. I've watched people destroy others, including myself. I've watched love prevail against the odds. Well, my brother's did... Mine vanished before my eyes and left me the man I am today. People describe me as a fallen Angel. Why? Because at one point in my life, I never harmed a soul. As time changes so do people, the damage is done. I've become the deadliest Greco alive. My nickname is the Angel Of Death. Why? Because I've killed more humans than anyone in the mafia. Killing is like a wicked game to me. Do I kill innocent people? No. I kill monsters that shouldn't be alive. But even doing so, the nightmares still play within my mind. They haunt my sleepless nights and torture my soul. Once I thought I found the love of my life in the middle of my destruction. I guess The Angel of Death was too much for her because she vanished without a trace. I never thought she'd come waltzing back onto my doorstep, blowing my door literally off the hinges. I once thought my biggest enemy was myself until she blew my world apart. I'm her next target and I'm not sure if I will make it out alive in her little game. She's became our family's largest enemy yet can't I find it in me to kill my heart. Even if she's trying to kill me. Will I survive her torturous games or will my past come back to end me with one word.…

Life_Under_The_Stars

When my family owes The Don of The Italian Mafia money that they don't have; how do they repay him? The answer, an arranged marriage. With whom? The youngest daughter, of course. Who is the youngest? Me. Isabella Morello.My life wasn't always rainbows and a field of flowers on a sunny day. But, I thought I meant more to my family than this. Who do I have to marry? The net heir of the Italian Mafia. I thought I would find love on my own. I thought I would marry the love of my life. I thought a lot of things by my life isn't a book and this isn't a fairytale. I have to abide by my parents' arrangement; even if it means I lose my heart to the Devil himself. He's arrogant, cruel, heartless, but under his cold exterior there has to be a soul inside, right? Will I have my hert intact or will his coldness shatter it in the process? Will this be a tattered love or a love that could last? Will he ever love me, that's the real question. "ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ɪ'ᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜɪꜱ; ʏᴏᴜ'ʀᴇ ᴍɪꜱᴛᴀᴋᴇɴ. ᴍʏ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ʙᴇʟᴏɴɢꜱ ᴛᴏ ᴀɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀ; ɪᴛ ᴡɪʟʟ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ʙᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ'ꜱ" -ᴀʟᴇꜱꜱɪᴏ ɢʀᴇᴄᴏ"𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚟𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚍, 𝚗𝚘𝚛 𝙷𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚊 𝚏𝚞𝚛𝚢 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚍." -𝙸𝚜𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚊 𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚘…

Life_Under_The_Stars

When a parent dies, it leaves a hole in the center of your chest. The hole will always be there but over time the pain will ease. When you watch the person who inspires you to become a dancer dies suddenly; your passion for dancing dies with them. When you watch your brother get murdered before your eyes; your dreams change. Growing up all she wanted to become was a dancer; life threw her curveballs. Dancing became her hobby. Getting justice for victims has become her passion. Love hasn't been fair to her, neither has life in general. However, she still smiles her smile and believes she'll find love. Love that her parents once had. Enter in the Captain of the fire department who has the same circle of friends as her in the equation. She has tried to get to know the man but he's done nothing but avoid her if you would say. Something about him intrigues her. When you watch the love of your life die while giving birth to your girls. You die right along with her. As time goes on; it gets harder. She isn't here for their first words nor first steps. She isn't here to watch them grow. When you don't believe you deserve a second chance. Enter the forensic scientist into the mix. When she smiles it makes you want to smile. Her laugh is infectious. When you try, keyword try, to keep your distance it's harder than one would think. Seeing as you have the same circle of friends and you live in a small ass hole in the wall. Distance is damn near impossible. Will she be able to heal the broken fireman?Will he be able to put out her flames?Will both of them get burnt in the end?Read more to find out.…

Life_Under_The_Stars

We were once a close, like close close family. We had our fights but every night our parents and siblings all would be found sprawled out watching a movie before bedtime. All that changed when Gem was taken. Our family nights didn't matter. Our bonds were slowly slipping away. Each of us have changed. Some growing distant while others became cold and emotionless. We slowly drifted from being close to strangers. All that changed again when mom died. Once she died, everything changed. My emotions became deadly. No one knew when I would blow up. Or if I would smile or laugh. I became distant and the most troubled out of all of us. At times I feel like I was raised more by Ren and Teo than our own father. My angry outburst soon became friends with depression and anxiety. My thoughts never felt like my own. There's moments where I wanted to end my suffering. There's moments where I wanted to survive it all. The moment we got our Gem back was the moment I knew I had to survive. I couldn't let this destroy me. I couldn't let this cause my own family harm like it done me when mother died. I couldn't let myself, well more or less, my thoughts take the cowards way out. Not like my mother. With the ups and the downs. With the reunion with our sister. With everything, I always felt like I was the sibling that was left out of everything. But my thoughts of dying grew stronger with every moment of getting ignored. Yet, my family wanders why I 'act' out. You would too if you felt invisible. Right?I never knew the struggles I would go through just to live. I didn't realize the moments would come back tenfold. I didn't realize how hard it would be to fight and survive the battle. This is my, Lucian Romeo Rossi's, story. This is the story of how I survived. But barely. This is the story where I managed to crawl out of the black abyss and live to tell my story.…

Life_Under_The_Stars

What happens when the nerd meets the bad boy?Enter Emery Brooks, the school's nerdy outcast. No one really pays much attention to her. Well, except for her few bullies and her very few select friends. She hides in her twin sister's shadows. Her oldest brother is her protector. Her youngest brother is her light. Enter Damien Black, the school's bad boy. Everyone pays attention to him. Even poor Emery. Every girl wants his attention except Emery. Every guy wants to be in his circle of friends. Yet, he has his select few delinquent friends. His biggest passion is giving teachers a hard time. He loves causing chaos and he loves a challenge. His biggest quest yet?Emery Brooks. -----------------It all started the day he walked into the school. It actually started when I was at my locker and someone decided to pull my hair. Every single day for years I always let it slide.... People bullying me. People harassing me. People calling me name. I made a promise to myself that this year I would be standing up for myself. I wouldn't let anyone continue to treat me as they like. I promised myself the first person to do such a thing I would punch. That someone now has me in his eyesight and won't let me out of it. It all started when I punched Damien Black in the face.…

Life_Under_The_Stars

Gemma was five when she was kidnapped. Her nanny was just a few feet away picking up Renzo's favorite salad dressing. Gemma was grabbed from behind out of the cart. When she screamed nothing came out. Her world turned black. She was kidnapped for 10 years. Her memories of her family back home were slowly fading. She could remember faces of some but eyes of others. She couldn't remember if they were brothers, cousins, best friends. She just knew these eyes were important. The faces she remembered were just as important. The beating, the abuse, and the torture couldn't erase them out of her memory. They were forever etched in her brain. What happens when her abductors and her are moving back to her homeland? Her town? What happens when she runs into...? Literally 5 of her brothers on the first day of school? Will she remember who they exactly are? Will she ask them for help? Will she survive another beating? See if she can reunite with her family that has missed her for all those years.…

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She's waiting on her true love while he's waiting for his soulmate. One wishes for a happily ever after while the other wishes for total destruction. One embraces the light while the other caresses the darkness. Ember learns a few thing in life. One you can't trust a stranger even if it's your own mate. Two, soulmates hold the power to bring you back from the brink of death or to tear your soul in half. Unluckily enough for her, a devil with no heart is all that awaits for her. Three,, a broken heart will continue to beat as it still wants the same person who has shattered it. That one person? The Devil named Lazarus. ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾ ﾟ｡⋆ ⋆｡ﾟ☁︎｡⋆｡ ﾟ☾Main Prompt: #33. A broken heart beats with all its pieces. And it still wants the same person. Secondary Prompt: #25. Soulmates are real and dangerous. They hold the power to bring you back from the brink of death or to tear your soul in half. And a devil with no heart is the soulmate that awaits for you.…

Life_Under_The_Stars

~ Featured @StoriesUndiscovered ~What happens when the school's popular yet bad boy gets paired up with the school's outcast. The girl who's father is the town's preacher. The girl who doesn't cuss or party. The school's obedient yet smart girl. Will they figure out who the other one truly is under their masks? Will they form a friendship? Will they form a relationship? Or when the assignment is complete, go their separate ways like they never spent the last semester together almost every day. Katie Adler lives in a small town called Florence. The town has roughly three hundred people. Katie is the school 'freak' as everyone calls her. Her father is the town's only preacher. That alone makes her a freak to everyone at school. She doesn't have any friends which again makes her the freak. She never skips school, always has great grades, never back talks teachers, doesn't cause any problems; which again makes her the freak of the school. She's the perfect good girl. But, she holds a very dark secret. Only her father and God knows what it is. Hayden Huxley is the school's popular yet bad boy. He's always causing trouble wherever he goes. He skips almost all his classes. He fights with anyone, bullies who ever his heart desires. His grades are slipping semester by semester. But, when he does one mistake, he ends up paired with Katie on a project. The project lasts the whole semester and both their grades depend on his performance. How will these two manage to communicate? How will they navigate through the school year being partners? How will Hayden react when he finds out what Katie's deepest yet darkest secret is? Will he stay by her side or flee like hell is on his heels?A Walk To Remember Meets Ten Things I Hate About You Meets She's All That. Read to find out what happens to Katie and Hayden. #83 lessons…