Bully

"Come back!" he says after taking a sip of the coffee.

I walk back and stand in front of him.

"What do you think you are doing bringing me cold coffee!"

"It w-was hot when I bro-brought it..." I stammer.

"Shut your mouth!" his loud voice booms." I don't want to hear any nonsense excuses from you. Do you see those boxes behind you? They are filled with files. I want them arranged in alphabetica...

"Eric was my nemesis. The school bully had a laser focus on me as his target. As if high school wasn't hard enough.
Even worse, he was quite possibly the one person that seemed to know me best.
All I wanted was to avoid Eric but he had a knack for showing up whenever I wanted to avoid him most.
Then we made that bet...
I believed that the only girl dirt biker in the contest, Tomboy, would win ...

I came to Warton Academy to find my mother. I stayed for the boy who breathes fire.

He’s the school’s pariah, a Dragon shifter with a temper as hot as his flames. Everyone says he’s evil. Everyone says to stay away. But when a pack of werewolves attacks me in the dorm hallway, it’s George who saves me. It’s George who looks at me like I’m the only thing worth protecting in this cruel world.

Our ...

"I have had a crush on Maya and I just couldn't tell her,"
I said, hoping to rage-bait her more.
Maya, a college student working tirelessly to make ends meet, gets tangled in a messy web between hockey star Jason Whiteson and his ex, Tiffany Evergreen. When Tiffany brutally dumps Jason for his ultimate hockey rival, Reagan Hope, Jason pulls Maya into the spotlight to save his pride.Faced with mou...

"Erin, are you really going to get back together with that cowardly ex-fiancé?" Kingsley stared at me, demanding an answer.
Tears welled up in my eyes as I glared at him and shouted back, "Yes! So what? We have nothing between us.Who the hell are you to question me?"
Kingsley burst into laughter, his laugh so sinister that it sent chills down my spine; looking at him, I felt both terrified and utt...

“A masterpiece of thriller and mystery. Blake Pierce did a magnificent job developing characters with a psychological side so well described that we feel inside their minds, follow their fears and cheer for their success. Full of twists, this book will keep you awake until the turn of the last page.” --Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto Mattos (re Once Gone) CUL DE SAC (A Chloe Fine Mystery) is book...

Princess Delphine Rourke is being married off to end a war she didn't start. The terms are simple: three months in Thornhollow, the last unclaimed rogue territory, to prove the crown can tame it before her wedding to Prince Alaric Sterling. What nobody prepared her for is the four Alphas who actually run Thornhollow, men the crown calls criminals and the territory calls kings. She is supposed to f...

At twenty, I stepped onto a path I had never imagined.
A world of magic, the Imperial Academy, fire breathing dragons, and werewolves howling beneath the moon had nothing to do with the ordinary human life I had lived for the past twenty years. But the day I received an acceptance letter from that other world, everything changed. My fate had already been decided. It was waiting for me there, and I...

On her eighteenth birthday, she receives an unexpected gift: an acceptance letter from a magic academy.
That's when she discovers she's a shapeshifter. Her biological parents left behind only a single letter, telling her to find the truth at the academy.
The school is full of danger. Even worse, she can't shift at all.
On her very first day, she's almost burned to ashes by a dragon, the most fe...

“I Made a Proposal.”
“Thank you for the offer,” she said between clenched teeth, “but I won’t warm your bed.”
I shook my head. “You don’t have to share my bed, Miss Hunter. In fact, I’d much prefer we keep separate bedrooms. I’ve just lost my mate—I can’t… I don’t want… That is, what I’m proposing is a marriage of convenience. We can help each other. I’ll give you my name so people can stop yapp...

There is only one person Chloe Turner hates with a fiery passion, and that is star basketball college player, aka childhood bully, Logan Carter.
A thick in the head ladies man, that is on every college girl’s smash list.
Not Chloe, she’ll rather chow down gravel with a glass of acid than get anywhere near the arrogant Logan’s crusty boxers.
But… everything spirals from the day Chloe uses Logan to ...

Leila, soon to be 18, working her usual after-school part-time job, overhears something she didn't expect. When she speaks up to correct the conversation unfolding before her, she's put on the spot and left feeling more awkward than she originally thought. This interaction sparks her venture into a love-hate relationship with the captain of the football team, who turns out to be none other than he...

Lilly thought she knew what survival looked like. But walking the halls of her high school feels like navigating a minefield when your every move is watched by Tristan. He knows her secrets, holds the unedited truths of her past, and uses his proximity in English Lit and AP Gov to pull her strings. Her life is a fragile structure—armor made entirely of paper. Desperate for protection, Lilly turns ...

Soraya has spent her life believing she was cursed.
The mark on her wrist burns under the full moon. Her dreams are haunted by a chained wolf calling her name. And at nineteen, she’s sold to a brothel where monsters wear the faces of men.
On her first night, she’s given to Darius Kane—the ruthless Alpha feared by all.
But the moment their eyes meet, everything changes.
The mate bond snaps.
And Dar...

For fifty thousand years, the Immortal Realm has feared the return of Vaelric, the Demon Lord—the God of Destruction and Death.

Hidden within the imperial palace since childhood, Alyssa has lived as both prisoner and weapon. Her blood can awaken the Demon Lord, while her soul is the only force capable of destroying him forever.

But when fate binds her to both the feared Demon Lord and the divine...

When I rushed to the party, sweaty and out of breath, I saw Alex sitting in the center, surrounded by hot, blonde girls in sexy skirts.

"Elodie, why do you think the great Alex would choose a nerd like you to be his girlfriend?" someone hissed at me. "It’s because he lost a bet."

I was a "nobody" on campus, madly in love with the ice hockey captain, Alex. I would run over ten kilometers in the f...

I found my fated mate in bed with my bully.

Theo was supposed to be forever. Instead, he gave me front row seats to my own humiliation, while Marcy smiled like she'd already won.

I thought heartbreak was the worst of it. Then Alpha Jaxen, the boy who's tormented me since day one, offered me a deal: fake dating, real revenge. Together, we'd make our cheating mates pay.

It sounded insane. I said...

Will a man learn to love me if I’m good to him long enough?

I tried for seven years to warm his heart.
I thought if I just held on a little longer, he’d finally see me.
Because I loved him so deeply.

But what did I get in return?
His endless tenderness for another woman.
I pretended I didn’t care, until pneumonia landed me in the hospital.

On the day I was discharged, I found him standing th...

"I hate him, so why the hell can’t I stop falling to my knees for him?"
When my mom married a man I barely knew, I though the worst part would be having a new last name and a contender for her affection. Sue me, I’ve always been a mama’s boy.
But enter Rhysand fucking Calloway. Hockey god. Cruel, Tattoed and impossibly hot. My new stepbrother.

From the moment he stormed into my life, he made it c...