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“What if your curiosity gets you in trouble?”

I try to remain calm as his fingers trail higher from my feet, drawing shapes on the inside of my thighs, teasingly approaching my more private parts.

“T-trouble?”

There goes the stuttering again…

“Yes, my little rogue, it could get you in a lot of trouble…”

He grabs me anew, and with a swift move I’m laying splayed on him with my stomach on ...

In a world where power determines one’s worth, Ren Ji is nothing but a worthless piece of trash. Born without a spirit seal, he lives as a lowly servant in the Black Cloud Sect and is the object of everyone’s scorn.
However, everything changes when a punishment sends him to a forbidden mountain, where he discovers an ancient tomb containing the soul of the last Dragon Emperor.
From that day on, Re...

I’m Lyra, Lower Princess of the Maelie people along the Pearl Coast. My people live for the sea, our very livelihoods depending on its bounty. It’s why my father bows to the Sea-King Alpha, to appease him. As humans, we fear the wolf shifters who rule over land and sea alike, but now, the Sea-King Alpha asks too much.
He seeks a bride.
And my father sends me.
Cassian Oliver, the Sea-King Alpha, i...

My fate was truly terrifying. When I was little, I dreamed of a handsome and dashing prince on a white horse to be my husband. I held on to that dream for years, hoping it would come true. I'd never had any luck in romantic relationships. I'd dated twice, and been cheated on twice. They said I was ugly, a weird nerd with thick glasses. Well, I didn't care, because I was a genius. I still hoped my ...

“Where is this? Why am I here?”
Elowen asked the man standing before her. However, instead of answering, he tightened his grip around her neck and pressed his fangs against her skin as he spoke.
“I should be the one asking you that. How did you get into my palace?"
“I don't know! Why am I here?”
Elowen turned her head and looked around the room. A luxurious chamber filled with a powerful royal atm...

She retired undefeated. He has never lost either.
Natalie Ray walked away from professional boxing at the top of her game. Now she waits tables at Rosario's, a stunning restaurant she has no idea is owned by Lorenzo Ricci the most feared man in New York.
When Lorenzo dares her to fight his security guard just to put her in her place, Natalie doesn't flinch. She doesn't raise her voice. She doesn't...

On the same day Penelope learns she has cancer, she discovers her marriage was never real—Dominic used her as a shield for three years. But she's no victim. As legendary hacker "X" and secret founder of three tech companies, she quietly builds a quantum AI empire while battling her illness. The man who thought she had nothing is about to find out just how wrong he was.

He chose his stepmother over her. Then he realized—she was the prize he threw away.
Lyra gave up everything for Alpha Vern: her career, her freedom, her very identity as his bonded Luna. For four years, she endured his coldness, his control, his family's cruelty—all for the sake of her dying mother and fragile sister.
The day her mother dies because Vern's secretary won't release her own emergency...

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Bending his head to lick the exposed skin around my collarbone, a second finger joined the first as he continued to thrust in and out of me, his thumb moving over my swollen clit in a matching rhythm that had my legs trembling.
As the tightening in my belly increased, Dominic suddenly bit into my skin and I thr...

“You’re not going back to work.”

“You don’t get to decide that.”

“I do when the man sitting beside you was murdered.”

Stone stepped closer. “Walk out that door, Fox, and I’ll follow.”

“To protect me?”

His jaw tightened. “To make damn sure you come back.”

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Getting involved with my biker bodyguard was never part of the plan.

Neither was watching one of his brothers die in front of me.
...

Vera's life collapsed completely the year she turned twenty-two. Her father absconded with embezzled funds, leaving behind a staggering $7.8 million in debt. Her mother remarried and severed all ties without looking back. Her seven-year-old brother—a child genius afflicted with systemic lupus erythematosus—required treatments costing $600,000 a month.

Her bank account held exactly $412.

And as i...

The true daughter, Charlotte Johnson, raised as a substitute by the Johnson family, is cast out after exposing the fake daughter’s plagiarism. While everyone waits to see her embarrassment, they are unaware that she possesses multiple identities: the internationally renowned jewelry designer "Queen", the esports master "Crown", the world's top female hacker "Zero", and the mysterious medical geniu...

In her past life, Arabella Oberon was the lowest-ranking member of the Oberon family.

She genuinely took in Regina, the butler's daughter, only to be constantly manipulated by this cunning and manipulative woman.

Regina gradually stole the love from her three brothers.

Arabella was forced to give Regina blood transfusions time and again, her weight plummeting to a mere eighty-eight pounds.
...

"Ten years. No exceptions. The system doesn't take exceptions.
And then she walked straight past every wall like there was a door I never knew about."

Lori Morris spent nineteen years as the treasured daughter of one of Malibu's wealthiest families—until they found their real daughter and threw her out overnight. Now she delivers takeout in a black uniform, works herself to the bone to stay i...

“Keep being my fiancée, and I can pretend nothing happened tonight.”

That was the first thing my fiancé said to me after I publicly exposed the video of him cheating.

Everyone knows I’m just a mixed-blood orphan taken in by the Sterling family.

Cowardly. Ordinary. Hidden behind thick glasses—the lowest of the low in the eyes of pureblood werewolves.

So they were certain of one thing—

Even if ...

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Tropes: Dark Romance | Forced Proximity | Touch Her & You Die | Corrupt Academy

"Who told you that you could touch what's mine?" Blue’s voice was pure ice, his tattooed hand tightening around the bully's throat while his cold, grey eyes stayed locked on me. "Lay another finger on her, and you won't live to regret it."

Sentenced to the brutal Bellamy Institute for an accidental deat...

They say he was dead itself, and anyone who ever saw his face never lived to tell what he looked like. He was powerful, he was unbeatable, he was the Lycan king of the northern border, yet I saw his face, but behind those masks wasn't the horror everyone had imagined; they were filled with pains that knew no end.

Lelia had caught her mate cheating on her with her sister, after the rejection she ...

I was hired to steal a billion-dollar serum.

Instead, I ended up protecting its creator.

Katherine Hawk.

The beautiful CEO who trusts no one.

Now mercenaries, spies, and killers are flooding into Los Angeles for what she created.

Bad news for them.

Because I'm Ghost.

And protecting people is much easier than killing them.

One wardrobe malfunction.
Two people who don’t belong together.
Three awful words: “Be my wife.”

Everyone else is at this party to marry the host.
I’m only here until I can get a ride home.
When my dress rips in the world’s worst-timed wardrobe malfunction,
I go find somewhere quiet to fix it.

So I’m standing there in nothing but my heels when,
As my luck would have it, the door opens…

And the ...

They gave him 24 hours to hand over the girl.
He gave them 30 seconds to regret .

Jack Cole was supposed to be nobody—just another quiet college student.
No records. No past. No trace he ever existed.

But when a powerful family tries to take his cousin as part of a dirty deal…
and a billionaire heiress becomes the target of a professional kill team…

Something buried comes back.

The campus?
Jus...