Chapter: A second timeVeraThe words echoed in my head until they became unbearable. “What does that mean?”No one answered. The silence stretched on as I looked from one man to the next. These were the three rulers of the Central North Territories. News channels called them kings, warlords, and worse, but never merciful. Yet they had saved me. How? And why?“I asked you a question,” I said.Jude stood with one hand in the pocket of his black trousers, watching me with an unreadable expression. “You shouldn’t be standing.”I blinked. “What?”“You shouldn’t be standing,” he repeated.“I don’t care. I asked why I’m here.”Heat rose to my face when he stayed silent. The blond man leaning against the wall folded his arms and gave a small smile. “I like her.”Jude didn’t glance at him. “I didn’t ask.”“That’s exactly why I said it.” The blond man pushed off the wall and looked straight at me. “I expected tears. I expected screaming. I expected gratitude. I didn’t expect attitude.”I stared at him. “And who ex
Last Updated: 2026-07-23
Chapter: Dreaming right?!VeraPain had a name.It tore through my body so violently that my eyes flew open on a ragged gasp. Air rushed into my lungs, as if breathing had become something my body no longer knew how to do. For several seconds I couldn’t move. I simply stared at the unfamiliar ceiling above me, blinking slowly while my heart pounded against my ribs. It was white and smooth, nothing like the rough concrete of that rooftop or the endless gray sky I had been falling toward.I swallowed, and the movement sent another wave of pain racing through my throat and chest. My eyes darted around the room. It was a large bedroom with floor-to-ceiling windows covered by dark curtains, cream-colored walls, and a cold fireplace beneath a framed landscape painting. Everything looked expensive. My gaze dropped to the thick blanket covering me, then to the white bandages wrapped around both arms. My right wrist was splinted and several fingers were wrapped individually. I lifted my hand instinctively. The motio
Last Updated: 2026-07-23
Chapter: Pushed 2VeraMy heart began hammering. I suddenly didn’t want the answer, but I already knew there was one. “Tell me the truth.”“Why?”The question stunned me. “Because I’m your wife.”“No.” The answer came immediately, without hesitation.My chest tightened. “No?”“You aren’t obligated to know anything now Vera.”The room seemed to tilt as I turned to Ethan. “Then what were they?”His smile widened. “The documents?”“Yes the documents.”“They weren’t authorization forms.” For a moment I forgot how to breathe. “They were transfer agreements.”The words hit me like a physical blow. I shook my head. “No, you can't be serious.”“You signed them.”I stared at him as the room felt smaller and the air thinner. Every instinct screamed that something terrible was happening. “What did I sign?”His eyes never left mine. “You signed away voting control of Carter Holdings. You signed away majority ownership. You signed away trust access.”“No.” I barely recognized my own voice. Because he had to be lyi
Last Updated: 2026-07-23
Chapter: Pushed 1VeraMy gaze moved between Ethan and Vanessa, waiting for one of them to look ashamed. Neither did. That was the first thing that truly frightened me—not the affair, It was the complete absence of panic.People who got caught were supposed to panic. They were supposed to scramble for excuses, pull their clothes straight, and tell ridiculous lies that no one believed. “Ethan.” My voice sounded thin and distant, like it belonged to someone else. I stared at him and felt something ugly growing inside my chest. Six years of anniversaries and shared vacations. Six years of memorizing how he took his coffee. “Say something,” I said.But Ethan sighed—actually sighed. The sound landed harder than a slap. “What exactly would you like me to say, Vera?”For a moment I simply looked at him, wondering if I was having some sort of breakdown. Maybe I had finally worked too much or inhaled something strange at the gala, because there was no possible way the man standing in front of me could be my
Last Updated: 2026-07-23
Chapter: No more pretenseVeraI could forgive the cheating. It was the murder that felt excessive.Affairs happen. People fall out of love. Hearts break every day. There are lawyers, divorce papers, and expensive therapy sessions for things like that. Most reasonable people don't solve marital problems by throwing their wives off forty-story buildings. But then again, my husband had never been particularly reasonable.The funny thing is, if someone had asked me that morning whether my marriage was happy, I would have said yes without hesitation. Not because it was perfect—perfect marriages didn't exist. But because I loved him. And when you love someone long enough, you ignore all the red flags.Looking back, I can pinpoint a hundred moments when I should have known. The warning signs weren't hidden. I simply trusted the wrong people.The rain had started sometime that afternoon, drumming steadily against the windows of our penthouse while I stood in front of the bedroom mirror fastening a pair of diamond ear
Last Updated: 2026-07-23
Protecting My Heart From The Jock
Book 1: Sienna And Kai
Some rules are meant to be broken. Falling for your best friend's little brother isn't one of them.
As the Vancouver Vipers' team nutritionist, Sienna Carter has spent years rebuilding the life her abusive marriage almost destroyed.
Falling for the team's cocky rookie and her best friend's now-grown little brother isn't just unprofessional. It could cost her everything. Except Kai Rivera isn't the awkward kid she remembers anymore. He's the Vancouver Vipers' golden boy—devastatingly handsome, and determined to make her see him as a man.
Kai Rivera has wanted Sienna for years and one stolen kiss proves she wants him too.
Then the moment is caught on camera.
Now the internet has branded her a villain as the older woman trying to corrupt the golden boy, while Sienna's manipulative ex sees the perfect chance to destroy what's left of her life.
Falling in love? That was always the most dangerous play.
Book 2: Maya & Cole story.
Maya has spent years being the solid one. Best friend, loyal wingwoman, the girl who always has the backup plan and the sharpest comeback. She never expected the quiet, controlled head athletic trainer of the Vancouver Vipers to look at her like she was the only play that mattered.
Cole Bennett doesn’t do messy. He doesn’t do public. And he sure as hell doesn’t do the best friend of the team’s new nutritionist. But one late-night treatment room, one accidental almost-kiss, and one secret that refuses to stay buried later, the man who lives by protocol is breaking every rule he ever made.
She’s his best friend’s best friend.
He’s the one man she was never supposed to want
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Chapter: GONE FOR YOUSIENNA ~I watched him leave.Then I slammed the door hard enough to make the sample protocols jump on the counter. My hands were shaking and I did not even notice until I tried to lock it and missed the bolt twice.I had asked for distance.I had asked for professionalism, yes.I had not asked for that voice. I had not asked for my name to come out of his mouth like a memo. I had not asked him to stand in my office and make it sound like I had never mattered past a shake window.Distance was one thing.But that had sounded like hate.“Are you alright?”Cole’s voice snapped me out of it.I nodded because my throat was not ready for the true answer. I set my bag on the chair and pressed both palms to the desk until the shaking looked like posture instead of fallout.Cole stayed by the extra chair and watched me the way he used to watch me after exams, like he already knew I was about to say I was fine and he was not going to buy it.“About Kai,” he said. “I think somebody soured his mo
Last Updated: 2026-09-04
Chapter: ERASED?SIENNA ~His face changed.Then it reset, fast, like he had reached for a switch and found it.Whatever had been there when he first saw the box was gone by the time he looked past me. He did not look at me. He looked at Cole like I was part of the doorway.“I’m back,” he said. “I went by your office first. You weren’t there, so I came here.”He was already turning to leave.Cole did not let him.“Come in for a minute,” Cole said. “Shut the door.”Kai paused. His jaw ticked once. Then he stepped past me without his shoulder touching mine, walked into my office like it was just another room in the building, and closed the door behind him.I stayed where I was because moving would have looked like I needed space from him, and I was not going to give him that satisfaction. Cole picked up a printed sheet from the counter, the one Paige’s box had come with, and held it out.Kai took it.He frowned at the header. “What is this?”“Updated fueling contact sheet,” Cole said. “New point person
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Chapter: LESS VISIBLESIENNA ~Nobody in my office moved.I looked at Cole. “Say that again,”Cole shut the door behind him with his foot. He did not look at the strangers first. He looked at me, and I hated that I could already tell he had fought this and lost.“Front office brought in another nutritionist,” he said. “Her name is Paige Whitaker. She starts today. They want her shadowing you this week, and then they want the player-facing side moved to her.”The woman with the tablet set it down too carefully and held out her hand.“Paige,” she said. “I know this is abrupt. I was told you would be expecting me.”“I was not.” I did not take her hand yet. “I left for two hours. I came back to people in my office and a new hire touching my schedule. Somebody needs to explain what changed.”The woman from upstairs stepped in before Cole could. I recognized her now. Operations. The one who sent calendar holds with no subject line.“This is not a termination,” she said. “Your role is still in Nutrition. We are a
Last Updated: 2026-09-03
Chapter: NEW NUTRITIONISTSIENNA ~ “Yes,” I replied. “It is because of your brother.” Maya’s face changed so fast it almost looked like someone had put a hand around her throat. The fight drained out of her. What replaced the expression on her face right now was worse. I swallowed hard and kept going before that look could turn into a question I could not answer. “Grant has been manipulating the cameras and taking weird photos of us at the facility,” I said. “He has been stalking I guess and cooking up stories because that is what he does when he needs leverage. I do not know why he had to invent something like that, or to want people to believe there is something going on between me and a twenty-two-year-old rookie. There is not. He wants a headline. That is all this is.” Maya’s face eased. Not all the way but enough. She let out a long breath and shook her head, one hand still on her hip, the other pushing hair off her forehead like she could physically reset the last two minutes. “I have always known
Last Updated: 2026-09-02
Chapter: DAMNED JACKETSIENNA ~Maya moved before Grant could slide the phone another inch.She snatched it off the table so fast the couple behind us stopped talking. Then she stood, turned, and hurled it across the floor. The crack was loud and ugly. Glass jumped. The screen died in a spiderweb of black and the whole shop flinched at once.I just sat there with my mouth open.“Damn it,” I whispered, more to myself than to her. I knew Maya’s anger. I had lived through it in parking lots and group chats and one very public grocery-store fight our junior year. I had not known she would do this. Not here. Not with a sports agent ex-husband.“You bastard.” Maya’s voice went sharp enough to cut. She lunged half a step and I grabbed her wrist with both hands, standing so fast my chair screamed against the floor.“Maya. Stop.”She did not look at me. She looked at him, shaking, the polite client-voice long gone.“How dare you threaten her after everything,” she said, each word landing hard. “I do not care about y
Last Updated: 2026-09-01
Chapter: HAS HER ON A LEASHSIENNA ~Maya put the taser in my palm before she even took the car out of park.It was small and black and heavier than it looked, the kind of thing you bought after a late-night true-crime spiral and then prayed you never had to explain to a barista. She closed my fingers around it and held on for a second longer than she needed to.“It goes in the inside pocket,” she said. “Not the bottom of the bag where you will spend four minutes digging like this is a normal custody chat. I did not drag you out of that marriage just to watch you sit pretty while he practices his concerned-ex voice.”I slid it into the inside pocket of my bag and tried to laugh. It came out thin. “You make it sound like we are walking into a deposition.”“We are walking into a coffee shop with a man who used to smile at waiters while he took your card out of your wallet.” Maya pulled into traffic and kept her eyes on the road. “Same energy. Different lighting.”The location my ex had chosen was the coffee shop o
Last Updated: 2026-08-31
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