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"What are you doing?" I shouted as the huge man ripped off my engagement ring from my finger.

"No!" I screamed as he threw away the diamond ring.

"You are mine! Do you understand? Only mine!" His gorgeous green eyes bore into mine.

"Never! I reject....." I never completed the sentence, his mouth was on mine, capturing my lips into a punishing kiss.

Alice has her life all sorted, she has a good job, a wonderful fiance. Apart from a little secret, she was a werewolf, her life was in her control. After losing her parents in a rough attack she had been sent away to live with her aunt, a keeper.
Alice was what one would call an urban werewolf who had no intention of finding her mate.
But things didn't turn out as expected when the most handsome, powerful and dangerous Alpha of US claimed her as his mate. With her wolf in the heat but her mind warning her against the union. How will she resist being his Luna?

Nicholas Derick Alcantara is filthy rich, incredibly good-looking , arrogant and every woman's fantasy. Stacey Ledesma is sultry, extremely alluring and every man's desire. The real Stacey is very simple, a bit shy and never had a boyfriend. But because of her job, she has to act and look sexy. Because of his wrong impression of her, Nick planned to teach her a lesson . He hates her kind. She has a reputation of being a flirt. A virgin will be ravished by a sexy as hell Casanova who thinks the worst of her. She will fall hard for him and he will be completely obsessed with her.

When barista Mia Caruso learns her dead father owed $4M to billionaire Bratva Pakhan Alessandro De Luca, she has 30 days to pay in cash or marriage. But Alex is a hybrid werewolf who’s been hunting her for years, because her scent marks her as his impossible fated mate. To survive his enemies, she’ll have to choose: his ring, his bite, or her grave.

QUILL QUINTON

She was an poor girl leaving in an abandon failure building in New York. An Orphan who worked all her efforts in earning and studying. She was hard working, silent and sweet girl. Living her best in her worst.


EMERSON HARVEY

He was an cruel , arrogant and possesive mafia boss. He was praised for his cruelness and defined as an destroyer.
He was deliciously handsome as one snap of fingers can lay lines of women for him.


MILEVA BELLONA

A fragile flower raised in mud. To get blend she have to be the one. Innocent and beautiful , broken and sold. Mileva's fate have broken her and than destroyed her getting entangled with Emerson Harvey the one she was bethroned to smashed her dream and her life.

PLOT LINE

Emerson Harvey leaving in Los Angeles came a way to destroy the rival. But caught the sight of unknowingly his forever weakness. And falls the way for someone he never thought he would.

He’s a ruthless college trustee who owns every part of her—including the secrets she’ll never tell.
She’s the innocent student trapped in his web, forced to obey his every demand…
even when her heart begs her to run.
His touch burns.
His gaze owns.
His obsession will break her… or save her.
She thinks it’s all a lie.
She thinks he’s just a monster.
But she has no idea how far he’ll go to make her his.
Dark, possessive, and impossible to put down.

Oliver Haywood never wanted love—only control. But his grandfather’s will leaves him no choice: marry or lose everything. His solution? A cold contract. No emotions. No weakness. No escape.

Nuella Allen is nothing like the polished socialites he rejected. She’s quiet, determined—and the one woman bold enough to stand against him. What begins as a deal soon ignites into a war of wills, where every look burns, every word cuts, and every touch tempts.

But when Nuella dares to defy him—both in private and in public—Oliver learns that the vows binding them aren’t just legal… they’re explosive.

In a marriage built on power, passion, and ruthless control, only one question remains:
Who will break first—the billionaire who swore never to love, or the woman who refuses to bow?

Asher couldn't believe his ears. It can't be; it's absolutely not possible. There has been absolutely nothing suspicious about his meeting Kiya; it had been purely coincidental.

He had walked into the coffee shop that random evening, and she had been the only one there to serve him. There was no way that was planned; it was not possible because how on earth would the NBI have known that he'd be going to the coffee shop? How would they have known he'd be interested in her even?

"Liar," he barked at Harry, who had a smug expression on his face. "And listen to me, Agent Harry or whatever your name is: the next time you call my girlfriend a slut, I will make you regret it. I'm done with this call."

Just as he was about to get up and end the video call, Harry's voice called out to him, "I'm sorry, okay?" He said, "I'm sorry I called her a slut, but I'm not lying. Her real name is Agent Akiyarah Thomas; she is just using the alias Kiya Cole. Everything was planned and orchestrated. Surely some things were coincidental, but it was mainly orchestrated."

Deception or love? Asher is torn.
When undercover agent Kiya infiltrates the world of billionaire Asher Smith, she is tasked with exposing the truth behind his mysteriously vanishing girlfriends

Mira is a wolf doctor who is about to get married. But she finds out her Beta fiancé has betrayed her for power by secretly being involved with Tessa, the strong Alpha’s daughter. Tessa uses her power to make Mira lose her job and plans to send her to a dangerous medical team on the frontier. Mira unexpectedly saves Dominic, a wounded Alpha. Dominic is the strongest Alpha of the younger generation and Tessa’s feared stepbrother. Dominic needs a Luna to inherit the Alpha position, and now he seems to have found the right person.

Born into a legacy of power, privilege, and bloodshed, she’s known only a life behind mansion gates—where even friends are assigned, choices are made for her, and cake for breakfast is a normal dilemma. But when her family arranges a marriage with a stranger from a rival empire, she decides it’s time to break free. Dressed as a servant, identity erased, she climbs the wall that separates her from the world she's never known.
But freedom comes at a cost.
Just as she’s about to leap into the unknown, the night ignites in flames and screams. Her home burns. Her family falls. And from her perch above it all, she watches in horror as the only life she’s ever known is destroyed.
"Mummy!" she cries, but no one hears her.
Because she was never meant to escape—she was meant to disappear.
A coming-of-age mafia thriller where one girl’s quest for freedom collides with a brutal betrayal, and survival becomes her only choice.

MATURE CONTENT! 🔞

"Call me sick for getting off to my woman being fucked by another man, but you like it." Jaxon started in my direction, slowly stalking toward me. I involuntarily take a few steps back as he begins to speak.

"The thrill, the anticipation. You love the sheer pleasure we both give to you whenever your pussy is being penetrated by either of us."

"Do you dream about us, princess? Having both of us fucking and filling your tight holes with our cum,"

"I do." There was no point in lying anymore; he's already discovered my deepest, darkest fantasies just by staring at the expressions on my face.

"Your pussy is probably dripping wet at the mention of it." Jaxon had me trapped between him and the wall, his fingers tauntingly inching their way up my inner thigh. We both stiffened when he reached the sore-sensitive bundle of nerves- my slickness coating his fingers. He growled, roughly turning me around and pressing me into the wall.

"So wet, just as I fucking thought you would be." Excitement and lust had me tongue-tied with nipples so hard I could feel each bud pressing through my dress.

"I hope he had his fun with you, cause now it's my turn." Jaxon found the zipper on my dress and pulled it down. I dropped my hands, allowing him to easily remove the sleeves from my shoulders.

"I'm guessing you're sore." I nodded slightly.

"You'll give me your ass then." My eyes widened as Jaxon took a step closer, shifting his body weight onto me, and within seconds, I felt his erection pulsing against my bare ass.

Wren Hayes is used to being invisible unless someone wants to make her a target. Broke, bullied, and determined to keep her family from losing their home, she takes the only job that pays enough: live-in babysitter for the Ramsey family. The problem? The Ramseys' older brother is Cole Ramsey
Maplewood High's star quarterback, the most popular boy in school, and the one person whose silence has allowed her humiliation for years.
They hate each other. They have to share a kitchen.
As enemies become reluctant allies and late nights turn into something neither of them planned, Wren begins to discover that the boy who never defended her is hiding more pain than she ever imagined and that the armor she's worn her whole life might be keeping out exactly the person she needs most.

She left with his children. Now she's back to make him pay.
"Sign them," he said coldly, dropping the divorce papers in front of her.Her heart shattered, but she didn't beg. Not this time.
That was five years ago. Now, Alexandra is back—not as the heartbroken wife, but as the CEO of the fast rising clothing and apparels company, Velvet Vixen. She's beautiful, untouchable… and she's not alone.
"Mommy, we saw a man who Jace looks like.
Two tiny faces. One unforgettable past.
When Liam discovers he's the father of her twins, everything changes. Liam wanted to be the father of his kids and change back to the old times.
Would he be able to accomplish his mission of making Alexandra fall in love with him again? Would Alexandra give in to this man who had once broken her heart and all the promises he made to her before? Would Jace and Jade accept their unknown father back?

On our third wedding anniversary, I prepared a romantic dinner but he came home smelling like another woman's perfume. I caught him cheating - she was even pregnant with his child.

Heartbroken, I got drunk and ended up at a hotel with his older brother. In my drunken state, I kissed him first. What I thought would be revenge turned into something more when he responded with barely controlled desire. We were on the sofa, his shirt half-unbuttoned, when I lost control and moaned his name...

I‘ve been living in cracks, and now it's time to break free…
I was an unshifted nobody while he’s a bellicose leader of the other pack.
Our lives should be a world apart.
But to everyone’s shock, I was revealed to be his fated mate.

His rejection was so close to the bone that I fell into pieces.
Worse still, my adopted sister plotted to annex his territory and then get rid of me.
The world had ditched me until he came to my aid…
We tended wounds and soothed souls for each other. It seemed he can’t say no to me anymore…
But everything we knew began to crumble: dragon shifters lurked in the dark, and some intrigue was on the making…
Could we survive in this jungle world?

I wanna know what’s in our way...
Reclaiming His Mate is a rejected mate werewolf shifter romance. It can be read as a standalone but believe me, you'll want to devour it with the rest of the books!

Sera is not the Alpha’s daughter.

She’s a lesbian who was caught, her lover executed, and her life spared for one purpose only —to be sold to the most feared Alpha King in the land as a replacement.
So she does the only thing she can. She pretends.
Now she is living inside another woman’s identity, bound to a man she is lying to every single day, carrying a secret that could get her killed.
King Damon is cold, powerful, and not as blind as she hopes.
How long before he sees through her?

"Run if chasing you is still part of the game." - Hudson

Doc. Hudson Herrence Hayes is not your typical dream man. If you love someone like him, you must be willing to risk everything. Everyone appears to be vying for the young man's attention. But there was a problem: Hudson was born heartless... Cold and lethal. He is widely regarded as a human robot. Numb. But things took a turn for the worse when Abhaya despised and despised him...

Clara is just a low-ranking royal Omega, but all the Omegas bully her simply because she is mute. When a handsome stranger, severely injured, falls in front of her, her kindness prevents her from ignoring him. She saves him and helps him reclaim his identity.
However, Clara’s mate, because of her flaw, falsely accuses her and only wants her dead. Just as she faces the brink of death and is about to be executed, the stranger saves her. He turns out to be the rumored prince who went missing on the battlefield, and her best friend, Nora, is the prince’s mate.
She finally escapes the bullying, but Nora seems to have changed, and it seems like she has a subtle bond with Gideon.

His beautiful angel was naked writhing in bed , in tears, shaking and begging. There was a pillow between her thighs and she was rubbing herself desperately trying to find a release. “fuck” he cursed under his breath……..
Life of Ana was running smoothly with her adopted Uncle and Aunt when god decides to turn her life into more chaotic one. Sometimes it takes one dark night and one look of care, just to gain the interest of the devil unknowingly and unintentionally to sign her fate with tears and helplessness.
I saved his life but he took mine. A love story bloomed with a hue of purity and tainted with blood and greed. * darkromance *Explicit content *

Damon Salvestre was a one-woman-one-man type of person. He does not engage in cheating or flings. He feels that a man should not enter into a relationship until he is prepared to marry the woman he loves. He was dedicated and faithful to his girlfriend, with whom he had been in a relationship for three years. He was all set to marry her. But things took turn for the worst when his fiancée cheated on him with his cousin.
Damon was even more enraged to find that his cousin was planning to marry a stranger after wrecking his relationship with his fiancée. He intended to snatch the latter's fiancée, exactly as he had done to him.
His plan of revenge was challenged when Roseana Fuentebella, his cousin's fiancée, entered his life. His goal was forgotten when he saw her heart-shaped face, her olive complexion that glows in the sun, and when he ran his fingers across her delicate skin. All he could think of was holding that frail woman in his arms and being with her.
Will Roseana's love for Damon be enough to forgive him when she discovers he just used her for his revenge, or will their love that blossoms out of hatred end in tragedy when lies and deception come to light?

You know what they say? "Couples are appointed to accompany each other in Heaven" but have you ever thought about the condition where one is from Heaven, cool calm and peaceful and the other one is from hell, hot tempered and destructor.
He walked towards her with his usual angry glare towards her. He looked so scary to her (Like always).
She took a few steps back but he was not stopped by her action. He was now so close that she could feel his body heat. He pulled her hair from the back of her head. She hissed.
"How you dared? Who is he to you? A boyfriend?" he asked in a sinister voice.
"Pain? Is that pain I am seeing? You came into my life forcefully and this pain is nothing like the pain I am suffering from," he said, forcing her to look into his deep blue eyes.

Book #2 Love and Chaos series
"I think your skin would feel good underneath mine. I like to know how you scream when you're unable to stop your body from responding to my c**k shoved far up in you."
The first time Edward Ainsworth saw Kailani Zaine, she was running. He believed she needed saving and so he stepped in to save her. His heart had longed for only her ever since that day. Little did he know he would be the one needing saving from her.
Kailani Zaine, an omega has been an outcast, since she could remember and so she trusts no one. Will she trust that the prince isn't like other men she has had in the past or will she run like before?

My pack will die without the help of my fated mate, but he wants nothing to do with us.

After rejecting me, my fated mate would rather leave us to the dragons. I guess my pack is more trouble than we’re worth.

Until the dragons start coming after his pack, too.

Because of our fated bond, my injuries keep him from protecting his pack.

Even though he expects me to get help, I’m going to prove I can be strong without him.

Time is running out before the dragons hunt us down.

Can we survive this on our own, or will our pride get us both killed?

"Be my maid for a month."the words slipped out of his mouth smoothly.

Annie's worst nightmare. Being someone's maid.
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Annie John was just an helpless lady that hawks some fruits jn the street.
This was to fend for both herself and her mother.

Her mom was diagnosed of a diseases and she was told to bring $100,000,000.

The doctor seems not to give a damn about where she will get it from.

After Annie's pleas,he felt pity towards her and told her to be his maid,so as to pay off her debts.

Will Annie accept her worst nightmare?

"Be my maid for a month."the words slipped out of his mouth smoothly.

Annie's worst nightmare. Being someone's maid.
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Annie John was just an helpless lady that hawks some fruits jn the street.
This was to fend for both herself and her mother.

Her mom was diagnosed of a diseases and she was told to bring $100,000,000.

The doctor seems not to give a damn about where she will get it from.

After Annie's pleas,he felt pity towards her and told her to be his maid,so as to pay off her debts.

Will Annie accept her worst nightmare?

She thought she was applying for a job.
He thought he was buying a toy.

When innocent Lily enters billionaire mafia boss Dante Moretti’s world, she’s sucked into a storm of money, power, and dangerous pleasure. He swore he’d never fall in love—but the way she blushes when he whispers her name might destroy his empire.

Aria Woods is a human girl who lives with her parents in the "Werewolf Kingdom". Her life is pretty plain she works at the farm with her parents during the day, and at night she secretly trains with her best friend Blair.

One night she met two vampires Ethan and Mason from the neighborhood kingdom. It changes her life as she fell in love with Mason. The hybrid inside her was emerging due to Mason's presence.

On the night of Aria's 18th birthday, they all met up at their usual spot and sensed many people closing in on them. Before they could figure out the situation they were under attack.

Will Aria transform into a hybrid to protect her loved ones? Will it change her life forever?

“ Don’t you even think you can just come back into my bed as nothing has changed between us, I am not going to sleep with you “ Kyra said, showing Alpha Conri out of her room.
“ I know you can say that now, but I know you have missed those nights we have spent together, making love and snugging up to me all naked. And I also know for a fact that if I leave now , you are going to hurt and wish you had begged me to stay” He growled, taking breaths around her neck , sending chills inside of her...
Kyra and her two sisters were the only ones able to escape from the tyranny of the supposed new Alpha king Shadow pack and the heir to the title , Conri Kessler. Their parents killed.
Her first thought was to get her sisters out.
They were lucky enough to get accepted into Moonstone pack. But she had to keep her being a luna a secret.
She thought everything had gone behind her and had no reason to worry until one night when she was almost killed by an enemy.
But Alpha Conri Kessler was there to save her, even though she had vowed never to see him again.
Hidden emotions starts to erupt out.
But with enemies everywhere, she has to save her sisters first.
Despite the dangers that erupt around them, Conri was more interested in winning his life's love back. No matter what.

His wolf goes insane when she comes over. "It's MATE!! MATE MATE MATE!!"

He calms his wolf, "STAY DOWN, we're in a human territory..."


Octavia is the only child of the Alpha and Luna of the Red Moon pack. Every aspect of Octavia’s life has been planned out perfectly by her parents, without a single thought of what she wanted for herself included. But everything her parents planned for her flips upside down when she bumps into Leon, her mate fated for her by the moon-goddess. What will happen when she realizes he is from Midnight blue pack, her pack’s sworn enemy?

"Let's get married." Lucas said and kneel on the floor. "Will you marry me?" He said.

I nodded and say yes as a response.

No wonder my life was kinda crazy but ended up with every girl's dream.

Dream to walk at the aisle with my parents and be with the man whom I love.

In a moment if happiness that she had finally found love, Valerie is faced with all the deceit that her partner and boss have been making her life and she is very angry so much that she wants to end everything but will Kayden leave her to go?
What is that secret that she has found out and can't bear to live with it?

I stared at his huge dick bulge from his sweat pants... Intriguing my bad flesh.

"We are siblings now... Calm down." I said to him as he grabs my waist.

His palm slowly gliding down my silk night wear as his perfect lips reached next to mine, with his eyes digging into my soul.

"I might be regarded as your big brother, but we both know that we aren't blood related Elsa... Now suck me like a bad bitch!" He commands grabbing my ass in return before slowly releasing it, as I took my position sucking on him while he moans.

"Good! No one is around, so spread those legs!" He roars at me.

^^

Now, Elsa is a royal werewolf who is told by a powerful elderly witch that she is destined to be mated to a Moon God on the day she unlocks her magic, and must kill him, otherwise, she will be used as a sacrifice to create new werewolf hybrids... But she is totally unaware of who this match is.

Not until she meets her dream incubus... Damon... A twenty one years old unknown son of the moon goddess, who gets adopted into the alpha's home and is regarded as Elsa's elder brother.

But Damon and Elsa are so connected that they can't help staying away from each other... Not until it gets so much... that it is either true, that she's his mate.

Meaning... Damon is the Moon God.

The same one she loves so much.

And the same one she must kill.

But what if... She finds a way out of it?

She’s broke, desperate and wishful. He thinks she’s the love of his life.

After being cheated out of her money and her trust by her Ex, Leah’s only way out is to pretend to be someone else for a single night. All she had to do was impersonate the famous celebrity: Sheera- her doppelganger, at a Valentine’s themed ball on Valentine’s eve. Collect a life-changing payment, and then disappear.

But she wasn’t prepared for Sheera’s boyfriend, Atlas. For the way his gaze saw past her careful performance, or how his touch felt like taking him home. As the night wears out, the lie stops feeling like an act and starts feeling like a chance at everything she’s ever wanted.

Now, with dawn approaching, Leah has to choose: walk away with the money she came for, or risk it all, for one finally perfect Valentine, her first ever with a man.

I once believed his oath wholeheartedly. I sacrificed all my power to lift him onto the Alpha King’s throne. What a cruel twist: the man who swore to die for me became my executioner.
He cast me aside for another female, and my past life ended in endless sorrow and destruction.
Now I am reborn, and I am no longer the naive girl who loved blindly.
I shatter the token of our blood oath in public, ending our bond forever.
To the shock of all onlookers, I do not seek another chance with him. I turn and pledge myself to the new Alpha King.

Seven years of deep affection, expectations with a pregnant belly, and all I got was his betrayal in marriage and false promises. I gambled my youth and sincerity, only to end up with an absurd scam. After waking up, we owe each other nothing and will have no more ties.

They killed his whole family. They left the boy alive, thinking he was nothing. A pup with no den, they said. The city would eat him soon enough.

They were wrong about that. The city did not eat him. It forged him.

Ten years later, Kaelen comes home to Charter. He is not a boy anymore. He carries a cold magic that was born from his own pain and suffering, the ability to pull bad memories out of places and make them real for a while. A scream trapped in a wall, the shadow of a victim, the last feeling of someone who died wrong: it is all fuel for him now.

But the power is wild and untamed. Every time he uses it, it hurts him and costs him something valuable. His enemies are still here, rich and comfortable, three of the most powerful people in the city. They do not know he is coming for them. They are about to learn.

To destroy them, Kaelen must first master himself. He must grow stronger and learn the full depths of his power. Because the echoes do not just haunt his enemies. They haunt him too. And the stronger he becomes, the less of his original self remains behind.

Piera was genuinely in love with Orion despite the difference in their social status.

But when his sister shows up while he was on a business trip with a photograph of Orion and his fiancée, Piera packed her things and left without a backward glance.

Orion came back to find the apartment empty, and struggles to understand why she left.

But five years later, they crossed paths on Riverside Park, and the secret Piera had been hiding is now in plain sight.

Can Orion successfully win her back again?

In my previous life, on the night of our wedding anniversary, my husband Bryan brought his pregnant mistress, Victoria, into our home. Driven to the edge, I slashed my wrists to force him to kick her out.
No one could have predicted her blood sugar would suddenly crash in the freezing storm outside. She collapsed into a flooded ditch and froze to death before anyone found her.
Everyone ruled it a tragic accident, but Bryan decided her blood was on my hands.
Months later, when I went into labor, he abused his position as my doctor to deliberately delay my care. He left me to writhe through dozens of hours of agonizing contractions and severe hemorrhaging until I bled out.
When, with hands slick with my own blood, I begged him to save our baby, he calmly peeled off his soiled surgical gloves. The look in his eyes was merciless.
"Heartbroken?" he sneered. "Good. Take the brat down to hell with you to keep Victoria company."
An icy, suffocating darkness swallowed me whole.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back on the exact night of our anniversary—the very moment Bryan, bringing the freezing rain in with him, protectively guided Victoria through my front door.

I'm Jennifer, a stay-at-home mom. I gave up my art career eight years ago to take care of my family. My husband Julian and my son Garry, they're my whole world.

But lately, I've noticed them getting closer to Mia, Julian's secretary. Little things. Garry asking where "Miss Mia" is. Julian mentioning her at dinner. I told myself it was nothing. I kept quiet. I put up with it.

Until last week, when Garry broke his arm playing hockey. The school called Mia, not me. She was listed as his emergency contact.

That's when I knew I was done.

Trigger/Content Warning:
This story contains mature themes and explicit content intended for adult audiences(18+). Reader discretion is advised.
It includes elements such as BDSM dynamics, explicit sexual content, toxic family relationships, occasional violence and strong language.
This is not a fluffy romance. It is intense, raw and messy, and explores the darker side of desire.


“Take off your dress, Meadow.”

“Why?”

“Because your ex is watching,” he said, leaning back into his seat. “And I want him to see what he lost.”

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Meadow Russell was supposed to get married to the love of her life in Vegas. Instead, she walked in on her twin sister riding her fiance.

One drink at the bar turned to ten. One drunken mistake turned into reality. And one stranger’s offer turned into a contract that she signed with shaking hands and a diamond ring.

Alaric Ashford is the devil in a tailored Tom Ford suit. Billionaire CEO, brutal, possessive. A man born into an empire of blood and steel.
He also suffers from a neurological condition—he can’t feel. Not objects, not pain, not even human touch.

Until Meadow touches him, and he feels everything. And now he owns her. On paper and in his bed.
She wants him to ruin her. Take what no one else could have. He wants control, obedience… revenge.
But what starts as a transaction slowly turns into something Meadow never saw coming.

Obsession, secrets that were never meant to surface, and a pain from the past that threatens to break everything.

Alaric doesn’t share what’s his.
Not his company.
Not his wife.
And definitely not his vengeance.

I was but eighteen when I found myself captivated by my best friend’s brother.

At twenty-one, I mustered the courage to confess my feelings. He welcomed me into his bed but never once into his heart.

For three long years, I reassured myself: "Just a little while longer. He will see me in due time."

Then Stella returned—the girl he had always yearned for, even while his hands roamed my body in the shadows.

He greeted her return with champagne and candlelight, and then, locking his gaze upon me amidst a gathering, he coldly declared:

"You crawled into my bed and offered yourself. Don't you see how cheap and pitiable you appear?"

I raised my eyes, meeting his once more.

"I shall no longer trouble you."

I retrieved my phone, navigated to a contact I had seldom engaged—my betrothed by arrangement—and typed: "I consent to the marriage."

Spring is the season I dread the most.

Because every spring, my mere existence becomes a lethal weapon against my own son.

Theron told me he suffers from a highly rare condition: Maternal Stress Rejection Syndrome.

If I so much as get near Flynn during the spring months, it triggers severe asthma attacks and terrifying asphyxiation.

To keep our boy alive, Theron takes him away to an isolated treatment center for three months, every single year.

And I stay behind, swallowing antidepressants by the handful just to survive the crushing guilt.

That is, until I found a photo hidden in Theron's burner phone.

In the picture, my husband and my son are tightly embracing another woman.

The so-called Maternal Stress Rejection Syndrome was nothing but a sick lie—a meticulously crafted excuse so my husband could spend the season playing "happy family" with his first love.

......

"Ember Hart, don't even think about escaping!" Asher growled, his grip tightening ruthlessly on my chin. "It’s only been how long since the rejection? Has your body already forgotten me? Liar."
The sheer, terrifying heat of his massive, vein-ridged length slapped against my face.
"Don't even dream of leaving me, baby. You can only be mine."
——
I’m Ember.
For three years, I’ve been Asher’s Luna.
I always believed I could never warm his heart because he was born cold, distant, and incapable of love.
Then I saw him accompanying Chloe to her prenatal appointments.
For the first time, I watched him treat a woman with such tenderness and care. He noticed every little discomfort, shielded her from every hardship, and couldn’t bear to see her upset for even a second.
That was when I finally understood.
It wasn’t that Asher didn’t know how to love.
He simply didn’t love me.
Heartbroken, I accepted the truth and left the pack, carrying the secret of our child with me.
But when fate brought us together again, Asher stood before me with bloodshot eyes and a shattered voice. “Ember, I was wrong…” “Please.” “Come back to me.”

I used to be the Rosewood family's most beloved youngest daughter, until they took in Sabrina as their adopted daughter and everything changed.
My family said Sabrina's father saved my life, that I owed her everything. They forced me to donate blood for Sabrina until I was drained dry, demanded I give her my heart, and I died a miserable death on Christmas Eve.
As I lay dying, I could still hear them discussing how to throw Sabrina 'a unique Christmas party' to celebrate her recovery.
When I opened my eyes again, I'd been reborn, sent back to the day they first forced me to donate blood years ago.
This time, I yanked out the needle myself and slammed the family severance papers at their shocked faces. "The papers are signed. From now on, I have nothing to do with the Rosewoods."
Later, I became Nicholas Harrington's bride, taking on the surname that commanded worldwide respect. My designs swept across the globe, my name shining on the international stage, while the Rosewood family went bankrupt. My brothers knelt outside the Harrington estate, sobbing and begging for my forgiveness.
I stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows, watching coldly. Nicholas wrapped his arms around me from behind, his chin resting gently against my hair, and murmured adoringly, "My princess, I've acquired the Rosewood family. It's yours now."

Eight months pregnant, strung up and tortured by her own husband — because he decided the baby wasn't his.
She nursed him back from his accident. Held his family together with her bare hands. And another woman wore the crown that was hers.
They plastered her face across explicit photos. Forged the paternity test. Took everything — even her name.
She watched, screaming, shattering — as her husband ripped their newborn from her arms and threw the child into a cage of beasts.
Her mother couldn't take it. She jumped.
Her father was tortured until she couldn't recognize his face.
She begged to live. They wouldn't let her.
She begged to die. They wouldn't let her either.
Until she was reborn.
She remembers every face. Every wound. Every scream.
And this time, there will be no mercy.

When the armored car had room for only one passenger, Damian Russo chose me.

I was saved, but Lilia Brown didn't make it. She bled out in the crossfire, her body left in the rubble. Damian pretended he didn't care and married me as planned.

For three years, he made me pay for her death—beating me, starving me, blaming me for the fact that she was gone.

In the end, he drove us both off a cliff instead.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the docks on the night of the ambush. This time, I stepped aside and let him save the woman he truly loved.

They left me to die in a burning lab while saving my faker sister. Big mistake.

I hadn't slept in six months, perfecting the neural serum that would save Mom's life. One vial. One chance. Then my adopted sister Mia grabbed it and smashed it on the floor, sobbing about how cruel I was to a "disabled" person.

Mom and Dad ate it up. My fiancé Ryan nodded along—probably because he was banging Mia every chance he got. When fire trapped me in the lab, they carried out "paralyzed" Mia and left me hammering on reinforced glass, choking on smoke.

Want to know the best part? That manipulative snake hopped out of her wheelchair and sprinted to safety the second she thought no one was looking.

Second chance at life? Hell yes.

I'm watching Mia lift that test tube again, ready to destroy everything. But instead of lunging forward like last time, I lean back in my chair.

"Smash away," I say with a shrug. "I'm not the one who'll suffer."

Let's see how this plays out when I'm not the naive fool.

I loved Callum Crane for five years. He said I didn't fit. Then he proposed — to my sister.
The same night, his brother called me with the most insane idea I've ever heard: marry him instead. Same day. Same venue. Right across the hall from my ex and my sister's ceremony.
I said yes. Not because I loved Emrys Crane. Because I'd rather set the whole thing on fire than sit in a pew and watch.
Here's the thing about revenge marriages, though. They're supposed to be fake.
Nobody told Emrys.
The man had a wrench set in his truck that only fit my grandmother's machine — bought years before I ever spoke to him. He'd been sneaking looks through my workshop window so often the stone wore down. He fixed my motorcycle three times and never mentioned it. He remembered that I stared at a piece of almond brittle for ten seconds once, and bought it for me weeks later.
Seven years. He'd been in love with me for seven years. Said nothing. Did everything.
And Callum? The man who told me I didn't fit?
He showed up at my orchard with an apology and a folder full of evidence against my sister, begging for a second chance.
I looked him in the eye and said: "Too late. Wrong harvest."
He tried five more times. It only got worse for him.

Born between two kingdoms at war, Astrid Stone’s life has been marked by pain and misfortune, condemned to live as a slave within her own palace.
She is the princess no one wants, the shadow of a lineage that despises her.
When the new wolf king, Lysander Rowan, forces her to marry him to avenge his father, both are trapped in a union forged by hatred… and consumed by a desire neither can deny.
As their love grows and her true nature awakens, Astrid must choose between loyalty to her past or a forbidden love that threatens to destroy them both.
In a world where blood dictates destiny, can love defy the moon?

Darcy Madu never imagined she’d become a billionaire’s nanny or find herself at the heart of a high-profile scandal. But when she walks into Adrian Ashford’s office and instantly calms his inconsolable daughter, Hazel, fate intervenes. As Darcy navigates life in the penthouse, she discovers the man behind the empire is grieving, guarded, and desperately in need of someone who can love them both unconditionally.

Amidst whispers of betrayal, media scrutiny, and Adrian’s own walls of guilt, Darcy and Adrian’s hearts collide in quiet moments of laughter, care, and stolen glances. But can love survive when the world seems determined to tear them apart or will the past and family expectations force them to let go of the only happiness they’ve ever truly known?

I've got a reputation on campus as a doormat with zero dignity. I bring Wyatt Langley food, do his homework, act as his emotional dumping ground. Been at it for a year.

His rich friends mock my cheap clothes and say I'm reaching way out of my league. He never stops them. Sometimes he even laughs along.

Finally, he announces in front of everyone that he's breaking up with me. His first love is coming back from Europe, so I need to get lost.

Everyone's waiting to see me cry.

I glance at the five million dollars that hit my account half an hour ago and say, with complete sincerity, "Okay. Congrats."

What nobody knows is that I put up with him, tolerated his rotten temper, for one simple reason. His mom pays way too well.

Now the money's here. Time to end this arrangement.

So why, the second I walk away, does he start tearing the city apart trying to find me?

"Emily Johnson, don't even think about escaping!" Alex growled, gripping her chin.

Emily’s cheeks flushed crimson, her voice stubborn. "Aren't you just unwilling to let go?"

Alex sneered, "How long has it been since the divorce, and you've already forgotten the rules? Your body remembers me well enough. Now, take it."

His massive, vein-ridged member, terrifying in size and radiating heat, slapped against Emily’s face.

Alex let out a cold laugh. "Don't even dream of leaving me, baby. You can only be mine."

——

During their three-year contract marriage, Emily thought she couldn't warm Alex’s heart because he was naturally cold. It wasn't until she saw him accompanying Grace to a prenatal checkup—treating her with such tenderness that he couldn't bear to see her suffer even a slight grievance—that Emily finally understood. He wasn't incapable of love; he just didn't love her.

Emily calmly signed the divorce papers and took her own pregnancy report with her when she left.

But after Emily vanished completely, Alex went insane, scouring the entire city for her.

When they finally met again, Alex’s eyes were bloodshot, his voice hoarse. "Emily, I was wrong... please, come back to me."