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Stranded: My Step Uncle’s Secret Obsession

Stranded: My Step Uncle’s Secret Obsession

Twenty-year-old Ivy Laurent has built a reputation as a reckless party girl, but her wild behavior hides a secret: she has been deeply in love with her step-uncle, Matthias Thorne, a forty-year-old billionaire. Two years earlier, on her eighteenth birthday, Ivy drunkenly confessed her feelings and kissed him. Matthias rejected her gently, believing their relationship was inappropriate, and has avoided her ever since. Hurt and desperate for attention, Ivy spirals into rebellion until she is expelled from another university. Her parents finally give her an ultimatum: spend six months working with Matthias’s or lose all financial support. Matthias is furious when Ivy arrives. Determined to keep distance, he assigns her minor tasks assisting the research team developing revolutionary renewable energy technology. Ivy, however, refuses to behave quietly. Through constant teasing and bold confidence, she challenges Matthias’s restraint, while he struggles with feelings he has tried to suppress for years. Disaster strikes when a massive earthquake triggers a tsunami that destroys the island facility. During the evacuation chaos, Matthias and Ivy are left behind and presumed dead. Isolation forces them to confront their long-hidden emotions, and Matthias finally admits he has loved her for years. Their relationship finally becomes passionate. Working together, Ivy and Matthias escape. Ivy leads them through the jungle until they reach a hidden emergency beacon that finally brings rescue. Returning to civilization sparks public scandal over their controversial relationship. Families, investors, and Matthias’s ex-fiancée attempt to separate them. Refusing to keep it, Matthias publicly declares his love for Ivy and leaves his corporate role to pursue his research independently. Ivy begins studying environmental science and builds her own career. Despite opposition, they remain united, eventually returning to the island where Matthias proposes, beginning a shared future in love, research, and partnership.
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Chapter: Chapter thirteen
Matthais’s POV “We are so sorry for coming late everyone….. we spent the night together and we woke up later than usual”, Ivy said and my fist tightened. I instantly forgot the reason that caused the confusion in the research hall initially and my gaze was Ivy’s hand. She was holding Caleb’s hand so tight that it felt like if she released his hand for just a second, she would have to spend years before she would get hold of it again. “Matthias… what is this about?” Sofia’s voice interrupted my thoughts and the anger slowly building up in me as I stared at Ivy’s and Caleb’s interlocked hands. I shifted my gaze to Sofia reluctantly and sighed slowly as the realization of what I just saw dawned on me. “I can’t explain that either. What they just posted is the same thing we have been working on for months now”, I muttered and sat down on my chair slowly. “That only means there is an intruder on this island”, I added. “How is that even possible?” Sofia wondered and handed over the phone t
Last Updated: 2026-07-07
Chapter: Chapter twelve
Matthias’s POV I entered the lab at exactly seven am and I met my workers in the lab already doing their work. Seeing that alone made me grateful for the kind of staff I have and a large appeared on my face because I could stop it. “Good morning everyone”, I greeted jovially and pulled out my chair to drop my chair on it. “Good morning boss”, they all replied with the same tone and I nodded slightly before settling down on my chair. Since today is Friday and we have done a lot of work during the week, I have to review the reports of the work that we have done. I searched through my table and discovered that the weekly reports haven't been dropped here. “What is all this?” I muttered and rested my face in my palms as I tried to put my emotions under control. “We have had a great week so far, just overlook this one”, I thought to myself and raised my head up to call the person in charge of the reports. “Sofia….. Sofia”, I called softly and she turned back to look at me. “I need you her
Last Updated: 2026-07-03
Chapter: Chapter eleven
Matthias’s POV After spending a little over an hour enjoying ourselves, Violet and I collapsed on the bed and slept off immediately. I managed to cover our body with the duvet before I finally closed my eyes tightly and gave in to sleep. “Uhmmm”, I groaned as I opened my eyes slowly, the morning light slipping in through the window that was opened slightly. I stretched my hand to my phone that was placed carefully on the drawer beside the bed and picked it up. I switched it on with my eyes slightly closed because of the impact of the sleep but then the sleep in my eyes cleared off immediately I saw the time. “Christ, wake up Violet”, I snapped and tapped Violet thrice beside me. I stood up and sat properly on the bed. “Uhmmm”, Violet groaned beside me as she rubbed her eyes with her fingers sleepily. “What time is it?” she murmured, with her eyes slightly closed. “It's a few minutes past six now and we have to be in the lab by seven, there are still a lot of reports to complete toda
Last Updated: 2026-07-02
Chapter: Chapter ten
Matthias’s POV “Why will you enter my room like that? It’s not done”, Ivy snapped at me the moment she opened her eyes and I shifted slightly from where I stood. I know that Ivy has been trying so hard to get my attention ever since she arrived at this island and technically, this should make her happy and not have her snap at me. “I just asked you a question Mat… why are you here?”, she snapped again and that made me snap out of my thoughts. “Focus Mat”, I thought and cleared my throat before moving closer. “I….. I came….. I actually came here to talk to you”, I stuttered as I replied to her, watching her cover herself with the duvet before she moved to the closet to put on a nightmare. I turned my back at her immediately and I could still feel the rush of heat brushing through me even when I can’t see her but I just have the knowledge that I am in the same space with her. “What do you want to talk about?”, I heard her talk after about two minutes which means she is done with what
Last Updated: 2026-06-05
Chapter: Chapter nine
Ivy’s POV "I need your help”, I said immediately the call connected after the third ring. “Why are you calling me at this time of the night?” a thick and distorted voice said at the other end of the call making it obvious that he was sleeping by the time he picked the call. I decided to call Caleb and talk to him about how I am feeling because he is still the only one that seems to understand me on this island. “I have something important to discuss with you”, I said hurriedly as I walked toward the door that leads to my room. “Ivy”, he called like he just realized I am the one he has been on the phone with. “How did you get my number?”, he asked, his voice was louder now and I assumed that the sleep must have cleared off his face now. “That doesn’t matter now”, I muttered as I opened the door to my room slowly and put on the switch to bring the light on. “It does Ivy. You can’t just call me like that…. I don’t want issues”, he said. “You know what I am talking about”, he added slo
Last Updated: 2026-06-03
Chapter: Chapter eight
Ivy’s POV I have been in this storage room since morning, making sure that the log books and their so-called labelled containers are properly arranged. “I’m too attracted to that so-called uncle of mine to even say I hate him behind his back”, I muttered and picked up my phone on the table to check the time. “Oh my God”, I screamed when I saw that the time was already a few minutes past seven. I dropped the phone immediately and started arranging the containers and the log books on the shelf. At exactly seven thirty, I carried my bags to leave even though there were still a series of files and labelled containers scattered all over the place but I was too tired to fix it. “I’ll fix the rest tomorrow”, I muttered and yawned lazily and walked towards the door. I halted when I suddenly heard footsteps moving towards the storage room and I suspected that it belonged to Matthais. I have had a crush on him for so long that I studied and took note of everything about him. A wide smile tou
Last Updated: 2026-05-30
The Beta's Regret: ONCE REJECTED, NOW MY EX'S QUEEN

The Beta's Regret: ONCE REJECTED, NOW MY EX'S QUEEN

Sera Voss spent three years shrinking herself. Growing up as the hidden daughter of Alpha Caden Voss, she had been raised in power—marble halls, guarded doors, and a future carved in certainty. She was meant to lead. Instead, she chose Eli Grant. They met in a border town where she introduced herself as just Sera—no title, no legacy. Eli was easy, warm, uncomplicated. Loving him felt like freedom. So she gave up everything quietly and followed him into a smaller life, convincing herself she was happy being ordinary. Then Mila returned. Eli’s first love came back sharper, stronger, and impossible to ignore. Sera saw the truth long before he said it—that she was second place in a story that had started before her. Still, she stayed. Because leaving meant admitting she had chosen wrong. Eli ended it simply. Mila was his fated mate. He was sorry. Four days later, Sera learned she was pregnant. She told no one. She went home. The Voss palace received her without questions. Six months later, she stood before the continent—pregnant, composed, untouchable—and reclaimed her title. She gave birth to twin boys and rebuilt herself from the ground up: in law, diplomacy, and power. The girl who left for love returned as something far more dangerous. Years later, at the Continental Alpha Convention, Eli saw her again. Not the girl he dismissed—but a leader. A force. And before he could reach her, another man did. Alpha Dorian Crest crossed the room, addressed her by her full title, and stood at her side as if he had always belonged there. Eli spent the rest of the convention trying to find a moment alone with her. Sera never gave him one.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 188
DORIAN'S POVThe messenger's final words settled over the courtyard like a heavy storm cloud."His grave is empty."For a heartbeat, the world seemed to stop.The breeze that had been rustling through the training yard suddenly felt colder. Every sound faded into the background until all I could hear was the pounding of my own heart.Logan was the first to recover."Repeat that."His voice was calm, but there was enough steel in it to make the messenger flinch.The young guard swallowed nervously."The guards assigned to watch over Dr. Kade's burial site reported signs of disturbance just before sunrise. When they inspected the grave..." He hesitated, his face paling. "The coffin was open, my Alpha.""And?" I demanded."They found it empty."Silence.No one moved.No one breathed.My mind rejected the possibility almost immediately.Dr. Kade had been buried with full honors. I had stood beside his grave. I had watched every shovelful of earth cover his coffin. Soldiers had guarded the
Last Updated: 2026-07-31
Chapter: CHAPTER 187
Dorian's POVThe heavy doors of the council chamber shut behind me with a dull thud, but instead of relief, the sound only reminded me that the battle inside that room was over—and I had walked out on the losing side.I kept moving.If I stopped now, someone would notice.Someone would see the exhaustion I had spent the last several hours burying beneath a calm face and measured words.The palace corridors were unusually quiet. A few servants stepped aside as I approached, bowing respectfully before continuing with their duties. I acknowledged none of them. My body continued walking on instinct while my mind remained trapped inside that council chamber, reliving every humiliating second.Caden had only been back at the palace for two days.Two days.That was all it had taken for him to remind everyone why he had once ruled with absolute authority.I hated admitting it, even to myself, but his strategy had been flawless.He hadn't walked into that meeting hoping to win.He had walked i
Last Updated: 2026-07-30
Chapter: CHAPTER 186
Dorian's POVTwo days had passed since Valthera abducted Enzo and Damien.Although the twins were safely back inside the palace walls, my mind refused to move on from what had happened. Every conversation, every expression on Valthera's face, every word she had spoken replayed endlessly in my head, as though my mind was trying to uncover something I had overlooked.I sat alone in my office, my elbows resting on the polished wooden desk while my eyes wandered toward the wide window overlooking the palace courtyard.The palace looked peaceful again.Servants moved about carrying out their duties.The royal guards had resumed their patrols.Children could be heard laughing somewhere in the gardens.To anyone looking from the outside, everything appeared normal.But I had lived long enough to know that appearances were often deceptive.Peace on the surface did not always mean peace beneath it.A slow breath escaped my lips.Enzo and Damien had recovered surprisingly well from the ordeal.
Last Updated: 2026-07-29
Chapter: CHAPTER 185
Mila's POVThe room was quiet.Too quiet.I sat by the window with my legs tucked beneath me, absentmindedly turning my phone over in my hands while my thoughts wandered in circles. Outside, the palace gardens were alive with color. Birds fluttered between the trees, servants moved about their duties, and the breeze carried the sweet scent of blooming flowers through the open window.It should have been calming.Instead, I barely noticed any of it.No matter how hard I tried to distract myself, my mind always drifted back to the same person.My father.Alpha Caden.Ever since Logan revealed that he had escaped from the palace prison, I hadn't been able to think straight. When I first heard the news, I had been overwhelmed with relief. I remembered smiling so widely that my cheeks hurt. I remembered thanking the Moon Goddess because I believed he had finally been given another chance.But that happiness hadn't lasted.Not even a full day.Reality had slowly settled in.He hadn't been r
Last Updated: 2026-07-28
Chapter: CHAPTER 184
Dorian's POV"Sera! Open your eyes!"The words tore from my throat as I caught her before she could hit the floor. Her body had gone completely limp, all strength draining from her in an instant. My heart pounded wildly while I lowered her carefully onto the bed, my hands trembling despite every effort to stay calm."Sera... please."I gently tapped her cheeks, hoping for any sign that she could still hear me. Nothing.The room had become unnaturally quiet, as though the strange light that had filled it moments earlier had stolen every sound along with it. Even the air felt different, thick and oppressive, pressing heavily against my lungs.Panic tightened around my chest.Only moments ago we had both been staring at those mysterious markings that had suddenly appeared across the bedroom wall. Neither of us had understood what they meant, but before either of us could react, Sera had simply collapsed.My thoughts raced through countless terrible possibilities.Had someone cursed her?
Last Updated: 2026-07-27
Chapter: CHAPTER 183
Dorian's POVThe evening after my unsettling meeting with Valthera should have been peaceful, but the weight of her words refused to leave my mind. Every sentence she had spoken echoed inside my head, twisting into darker possibilities with every passing hour. I had tried convincing myself that she was only manipulating me, that everything she claimed about Caden was another attempt to force my hand. Yet sleep came reluctantly, and when it finally did, it dragged me into a nightmare unlike anything I had ever experienced."Sera!" I shouted, my voice cracking as I sprinted toward the palace entrance. "Please stop!"Ahead of me, Sera was no longer herself.Her massive wolf form thundered across the courtyard, every stride shaking the stone beneath her paws. Guards rushed to intercept her, raising their weapons despite the terror written across their faces. They believed they could restrain her.They were wrong."Get out of her way!" I yelled desperately. "She'll kill you if you stay the
Last Updated: 2026-07-26
HIS TO CLAIM: Mated To My Cruel Stepbrother

HIS TO CLAIM: Mated To My Cruel Stepbrother

He had always bullied her since they were kids…her mother was a drug addict while his father was the city’s richest billionaire and Alpha too. The moment she clocked 18..she had left home, fed up with her mum’s lifestyle…adduction and bringing in several men at the same time into their little trailer home and she jhad struggled to not let these define her. Until she calls one day for peace talk saying she jhad been in Rehab and was now married…and she would love her to come spend some time with them. She accepts the chance to build her relationship with her mother again for the first time after five years. She goes there…and was shocked to see that her new step father was her bully’s father. [Before that: Where she worked as an intern there was a girl who enticed her hugely, and did everything to brting her down…then that night her mother called her was their annual gala and this girl drugged her drink and she slept unknowingly with someone..the next morning she wakes up shocked beyond measure to discover taht…she had slept with her bully.,..and wakes up realizing that they were mates. They argued and she ran away…angry at the girl for doing that to her as she goes home to prepare for her mother’s invitation. When she gets to the address goven t her she is shocked to discover that he is her new step brother.] He refused to reject the mate bond, although still claiming he hates her until he sees another man with her and all hell lets lose..he is obsessed with her. But then they start facing different challenges.
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Chapter: CHAPTER NINE
Nora’s POV “Arrrrghhhh”, I screamed as I stared at a message popping up slightly on my phone. One of the freelancing firms I applied to just gave me a job. I screamed again, my grip tightening on my phone slightly as I jumped around my room happily. I was so filled with joy that I didn’t bother to open the documents attached to it to read the terms and conditions, I just clicked on the application immediately and I fell on my bed happily. “Finally, I have a job. I can leave this house in two months as I planned”, I muttered and picked up my phone again to stare at the email. “I’m grateful Lord”, I squealed happily and closed the email application so that I can call Priya to tell her the good news. I stomped my foot on the marbled floor repeatedly as the call tone rang repeatedly in my ears, “Hello Nora”, her tiny and calm voice said at the other end of the call when she finally picked after the third ring. “Heyyy… you should pick my call earlier next time or I will have to look for a
Last Updated: 2026-06-05
Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHT
“I didn’t initiate that this time…. That’s the confirmation that none of us will be able to stay away from this bond”, he said and walked away slowly but then he stopped again and turned back like he wanted to say something but I spoke even before he opened his mouth to say anything. “My body reacted before my mind did and we both know it’s because of the bond”, I said hurriedly. “This meant nothing”, I concluded, still avoiding his gaze. “Do you still think the mate bond is something you can run away from? He paused. “You don’t have a choice here”, he muttered. I didn’t say anything and he didn’t even say anything either. We both stood there staring at each other like we were deciding which version of truth we wanted to say. “I will do all I can to make you understand that any of this is not what can be controlled. We don’t have a choice here, we have to do what the moon goddess wants”, he concluded. “No”, I said when I finally found my voice. “There’s a way to go about this”, I p
Last Updated: 2026-05-13
Chapter: CHAPTER SEVEN
“Hmmm”, I moaned as the light ray from the sun slipped in through the window and hit my face brutally. I squeezed my face as I stood up and stretched lazily. “Oh my God! What time is it ?”, I screamed as I spranged up picking up my phone from the bedstand hurriedly. “Shit”, I muttered when I remembered I lost my job the day before and I’m now living with my mother’s husband and my supposed mate. Fuck Mr Gerald. I moved away from the bedstand and on my way to the bathroom to have my mouth rinsed, the same pain I had felt the day before came back and it felt like my heart was getting ripped out of my chest that moment. I grabbed my chest and held the chair in the room for immediate support so that I won’t fall. Before I opened my eyes earlier, I felt him and I knew he was awake already. Even though I haven’t set my eyes on him at all, I could still feel him like he was in the room with me and that made me tense. I continued my walk to the bathroom regardless and at that moment, I ma
Last Updated: 2026-05-11
Chapter: CHAPTER SIX
I should not have had that feeling when Damien kissed me in the kitchen earlier but I guess I have no control over it. I came back from the kitchen a few minutes ago and I have been pacing around my room since then as the scene kept replaying in my head uninvited and somehow unavoidable. I needed to calm myself down “Arrggghh! I screamed as I bounced on the queen sized bed in the room holding my head tightly and squeezing my face like I could perceive a very offensive and disgusting odour. “This is not right”, I muttered. “It doesn’t make sense that the moon goddess activated a mate bond with someone that can easily pass as the person I hate most in this city”. As I laid on the bed, staring at the well decorated ceiling, I traced my hands on the faint but still present scars on my wrist as the painful memories of when I was subjected to Damien’s bullying and maltreatment rushed through my head. “You don’t deserve to be in the same space as I am. You worthless human being”. That wa
Last Updated: 2026-05-11
Chapter: CHAPTER FIVE
I could not stop crying.That was the part that humiliated me most — not the firing, not the twenty-four hour deadline, not the image of Gerald Watts' cold, satisfied expression as I walked out of his office. It was the crying. I had spent years training myself out of it, years teaching myself that tears were something you saved for the truly private moments, and here I was, sitting on Priya's bed with my knees pulled to my chest and my face completely falling apart while she rubbed circles on my back and said nothing because there was nothing to say.Eventually she handed me a tissue and I pressed it against my eyes and breathed."We will figure this out," she said quietly. "I promise you, Nora — we will figure it out.""How?" I pulled the tissue away and looked at her, and I knew my face was a mess and I could not bring myself to care. "I have no savings, Priya. Every spare cent I have made for the past three years has gone toward paying off the debt I accumulated getting through sc
Last Updated: 2026-03-10
Chapter: CHAPTER FOUR
He did not move from the spot where I had left him.I had taken maybe ten steps toward the gate when his voice reached me again, and something in the steadiness of it made my feet slow before my brain had given them permission to."I have no interest in hurting you again, Nora." He was not calling after me — his voice was measured and quiet, as though he was simply finishing a thought. "I want you to know that. Whatever you believe about me, that part is true."I stopped but I did not turn around."Today is not about me," he continued. "And it is not about the bond, or the academy, or any of the history sitting between us. Today is about your mother." A pause. "She has been preparing for your visit since yesterday morning. I watched her. She rearranged the flowers on the dining table three times because she could not decide which arrangement looked more welcoming. She changed the menu twice because she wanted to make sure she cooked something you liked." Another pause, quieter this ti
Last Updated: 2026-03-10
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