Family

"I hate you," I said, but my voice came out as a whisper.

"I know," he whispered back, closing the distance between us. He grazed my lower lip wth his thumb and tugged it down slightly.
"But I still want you." He added, his lips inches away from mine.

He placed his forehead on mine, his nose grazing mine. I closed my eyes in anticipation of the kiss.

I hated him. I hated how my body react t...

Hills of black awaited, luring me to the distant battle ground, taking me back to that dreadful night that forever changed the history of Zaza. From afar, I could see their spears and swords. Ghost of the past fought on the grounds, digging their heel into sodden soil as metal clashed against metal.

The brave warriors of Zaza led by the Army General Cyril and the crown prince of Zaza fought valia...

“Don’t call me your brother.”

I froze the first time Sebastian said those words.

After my father’s death, I had no choice but to move into my mother’s wealthy new husband’s mansion, where everyone treated me like an unwanted country girl.

Especially Sebastian—the cold, ruthless heir who hated my mother… and hated me for being her daughter.

I thought marrying the charming heir Alistair would be...

This dark romance thriller plunges you into the luxurious yet treacherous underworld of Chicago's mafia elite. The story follows Isabella "Bell" Martin, a 25-year-old art gallery assistant grappling with a stagnant career and her mother’s hospitalization. Her ordinary life takes a dangerous turn when she’s targeted by the enigmatic twin heirs of the Romano crime family, Dante and Luca.
Bell is un...

Anthony Mancini, a powerful mafia leader, leads a dangerous life full of secrets. His only refuge is his son Dereck, a mischievous and charismatic boy who longs for a complete family. When Dereck introduces Sophia Laurent into their lives, Anthony finds in her a spark of light that forces him to rethink his future. However, Sophia is unaware that Anthony is a mafioso or that he is the sworn enemy ...

Icy rain soaked the stone steps of the orphanage. Chloe opened her eyes from the agony of death—and found herself five years old again.

Three years before the Sterling family would come to claim her.

In her past life, she had thought finding her biological father was salvation. She was wrong. It was hell.

Mia, the Sterling family's shining adopted daughter, had taken everything that should hav...

Nora Bellamy has spent three years being nobody, good at her job, quiet at the parties, invisible to anyone who might remember the girl who supposedly drowned off the Maine coast. Then her new boss calls her into his office, shuts the door, and says the name she buried: Josephine Whitlock. Emory Sutter doesn't call the police. He wants something worse, a public engagement, in front of the one man ...

A long river split the city of Hillwood into two, separating the Palace and royal blood from the ordinary and the Vampires from the Humans. The consecutive agreement made by the Vampire kings was what Black Vale Dynasty has gone by; They were the ones for any decision to be taken. Respected, obeyed, and feared, all three of them were the most powerful predators on the planet but there was a thing ...

The Rising Moon Pack's Alpha doesn't forgive a debt and my father had no more money, nothing to trade away to save his own life.
Except me.
The Alpha looked at me, and I could see that he thought I wasn't worth what he lost.
"She can give me an heir," Varon decided. "And maybe that will repay the debt. Otherwise, the deal is off."
And just like that, I belonged to him.
But he had no taste for...

Lindsey, since childhood, suffered abuse from her family. She fell into a trap orchestrated by her sister Courtney and was taken to a room to be photographed with two men.

At a fashion event, Kyle Pratt spotted his girlfriend with another man. Rage consumed him, and he began drinking heavily. Dizzy from the drinks, he was taken to the room reserved for him in the same venue. On the way, he crosse...

Amia struggles to keep her home life a secret from her friends and boyfriend.
She ignores her childhood friend who tries to come back into her life. What happens when Alpha Andrius decides he wants Amia as his chosen mate?

!! TRIGGER WARNING: This book contains physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and alcohol abuse. Some chapters may be triggering for survivors. !!

Harriett Edwards has been in love with Damien Daniels since childhood so, when their parents arrange for them to be married, she gladly accepts even though she knew that it wasn’t what Damien wanted. For the three years of their marriage, she devoted her life to him with the hope that she would be able to change his mind and eventually get him to fall in love with her.
It all comes crashing down w...

Looks weren’t all that important. Those bullies want to smear it in her face that she was less important.
Kiera John. She was proud of her name. When at middle school she got rained with different insulting names, she didn’t find it very funny.
Well things changed when her long lost boy best friend came back to their part of the town and soon she got exposed to a less toxic world.
She ev...

I have spent my whole life being the girl who counts exits.

New room — find the doors first. New crowd — map the faces before I feel them. New school — arrive knowing exactly how to disappear.

Aurelian Academy was supposed to be the same.

Get in. Stay invisible. Protect the prince my brother trusts me with. Come home. Nobody needed to know about the dark magic I've been hiding since I was old e...

"Now, listen to me" he commanded and I instantly looked up at him.

"Rule number one, no screaming. No matter what I do to you, I must not hear a single noise. If I do, it would most definitely get worse" he said and my heart hammered in my chest.

"Rule number two, when I tell you to do something, you do it, or else, I will whip you repeatedly and make sure you're on the brink of death but just...

"To tempt me," he growls, his eyes smoldering with desire.

I tilt his head down, rising up on my toes and pressing my lips to his. The moment our lips meet, I feel a jolt of pleasure shoots through me. He responds with equal urgency, his tongue sliding between my lips and exploring my mouth. I can feel the hunger and need building inside me, the unbearable attraction between us almost too much to...

As the knight entered the room, the sun’s rays finally had a chance to penetrate the dim storage room, filling the room with its sparkling orange light. With great wonder, Leila saw the prince’s shadow cast clearly on the floor; Instead of a man, his shadow was shaped like a fierce dragon.

Leila was gently pulled up by the dark knight. She blinked and shook her head, thinking she had witnessed so...

My eyes widen when I saw the face of the guy dancing with me.I smirked. He's the one! I need to get him tonight.

"Your place or mine?" He whispered.

I got you!

"Hotel," I answered.

Being on the list of successful young entrepreneurs, living alone for six years. I want to have a family of my own.

But how?

I will get pregnant, and I will do that through a one-night stand.

"I hate you, Thunder. I will never forgive you."

Living a life as a wife and husband, how long would Jewel handle the pain caused by Thunder? Will it take her a long time to stay? Or will she choose to stay away from him and continue her life without the presence of her husband?
A question that keeps lingering in her mind and trying to find answers, but she'll end up setting it aside and continui...

5 million dollars, I bet the beautiful lady beggar will fall for me first, said Jagger.

"Double the bet, she will be mine." Rio, one of the twins added.

"Are you serious? 10 million bets, I promise she will love me first!"" the other of the twins, Rome shouted.

For years, Ava was a beggar who can only feed on begging food. 

It seemed that she will live in this way forever, but one accident tur...