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Cleo Farris has one rule: never want what you cannot have. She breaks it the moment her stepbrother's best friend walks back into her life, older, sharper, and looking at her like she is no longer the girl he used to ignore.
Dash Calloway is eighteen. Too confident. Too perceptive. And living in the same house for the summer while their parents honeymoon across Europe. Cleo is seventeen, invisible by choice, and completely unprepared for a boy who argues with everything she says and somehow still makes her feel more seen than anyone ever has.
But when a secret gets out, Cleo loses the carefully constructed life she built to stay safe. Now she has to decide: keep surviving in the background, or finally take up the space she was always meant to fill, even if it costs her everything.

I reached below and tried to open his belt buckle with one hand. Thankfully it was easy. I continued and undid his button as well as the zip. My reward? The sight of his underpants.

And the beautiful bulge hiding underneath.

Avery allowed me to feel it from inside the fabric. It was so firm, strong and hot. Just feeling the weight of it in my hand made me want to put it in my mouth and wet it for him before he slides inside.


Poisoned, framed, and divorced, no one believed that Bianca was innocent enough to stand by her side.

But he did.

Avery, her ex-husband Conroy’s best friend, might have all the tools she needs. Not to mention he’s willing to help her out despite the bad blood between them.

Yet why does Avery feel the urge to capture Bianca’s lips in his? If he exposed his heart to her, would she stab it?

James Johnson bought me from the black market for five million.
I went from being a mercenary to his bodyguard, and also his plaything to satisfy his desires.
Countless intimate nights gradually changed the nature of our relationship.
Until he risked his life to save me during a gang shootout.
His restrained feelings finally broke free, and he proposed to me.
But today, five years later.
Right after James took control of the Johnson Family, he quickly got engaged to Julia, the daughter of the Smith Family, the biggest arms dealer.
I confronted him, only to overhear his conversation with a friend.
"I told Sophia I'd marry her just to make her give everything for me, even die for me. After all, those brothers fighting me for the inheritance are all crazy."
His friend laughed. "But she's risked her life for you for six years. That's pretty cold."
"Doesn't matter. With her background, she was never fit to be a mafia heir's wife anyway."
I stood outside the door and let out a bitter laugh.
Back in my room, I contacted Marshall Johnson.
"I promised to keep James safe until he became head of the Johnson Family. The mission's complete now. Please give me my freedom as agreed."

Not long after I transferred to this school, I became the bullies’ favorite target.
They didn’t like how quiet I was or how pale I looked, so they casually slapped me with a nickname: “vampire.”
It started with shoves in the hallway and jeers in the classroom, escalated to messing with my drink, then stuffing trash into my locker.
They treated my silence as permission and wrapped every provocation in the same excuse: “Just a joke.”
Until that night, when humiliation wasn’t enough. They lured me into a tiny storage room behind the auditorium—locked the door, killed the lights, set up a fixed camera—ready to strap me to a chair and film an “execution” video that would make sure I could never hold my head up at this school again.
What they didn’t know was that the nickname wasn’t a joke. It was the one time they got the truth right.
I really am a vampire.

"You little ungrateful, spoiled brat," she spat venomously. "I fed you, allowed you to stay in my house, and took you in after the old man died. And this is how you repay me? With disrespect and disobedience."

I miss my dad. His excessive kindness and gentle disposition rendered him blind to the true nature of the woman he chose to marry—this beautiful, evil, vicious stepmom standing in front of me.


"I want you to brew two glasses of Irish tea. ”

That’s my stepsister.

I stood wide-eyed as she spoke.

Irish tea.

I used to make it when Dad was sick in bed.

Why would she want tea at a party? She never even drank it.

"Have you gone deaf now?" she snarled, glaring at me with contempt.

"Um—no, no. I’m sorry," I stuttered, lowering my gaze again.


Pushing through the crowd, I collided with someone and let out a surprised whimper.

"I'm so, so sorry," I muttered anxiously, tears threatening to spill.

Then I froze as an unfamiliar voice echoed inside my head.

I slowly looked up and met the stranger’s intense gaze. My thoughts spun wildly as vibrant green and gold hues swirled around and consumed my mind.

"Mine!"


Unaware of her true heritage, Camila was married off to a ruthless alpha king by her stepmother, who abused and mistreated her all her life. But just when she thought that her life would only get worse, life threw her a curveball that rocked everything she had ever known and believed in, and she had no idea how to handle it. With these new discoveries came dangers that she was not prepared for. Will Camila be able to fend off and defeat the dangers that come with these new findings?