Novels by Cupid

SECOND CHANCE VOWSChapter 26: Rushed to the SceneADRIANHe went through everything carefully, from resume to design draft."Honestly, her application's nothing impressive on paper. If her name weren't Maya Bennett, I wouldn't have looked twice." Landon shook the sketch in his hand. "But this. This has my attention. If she really drew this herself, she's got real skill."Landon could come off as a flirt most days, but where actual work was concerned, he took it seriously.Adrian smirked, glanced toward Bruce. "Have HR process her onboarding. Standard procedure.""Yes, Mr Rosewood." Bruce took the papers and left.Landon watched him go, then grinned. "Hey, Eugene, she's divorced now. Single."Adrian raised a brow, said nothing.Still oblivious, Landon kept going. "If she joins Cosmos Group, I'll be seeing her at the office every day. Think I've got a shot? Maybe ask her out, make her mine?""Not a chance."A flat voice cut through, though Landon was too deep in his own plans to catch

ADRIAN"Mr Rosewood, I'll deliver this to Ms Bennett," the guard said, turning to go."Wait."He froze mid step.I stood, took the bag straight from his hands. "I'll handle it myself." Then I walked out before he could ask why.He stood there, clearly baffled. Simple enough task. Did I really need to do it in person.MAYAFrom the bed, I glanced at Adrian sitting nearby, then at Caleb keeping me company. Ever since Adrian had walked in, my son's curious eyes hadn't left him once."Adrian, this is my son, Caleb," I offered.He looked at the boy, smiled warmly. "Hello. Adrian."Caleb stared back, muttered the name under his breath, then clicked his tongue. "Your name sounds way cooler than Nathaniel's."I raised an eyebrow. Here we go.He stretched a small hand toward Adrian. "Hi, I'm Caleb Bennett."Both of us paused a beat at that.I narrowed my eyes at him. He carried on, perfectly serious. "I'm Mum's most precious pup. Since she divorced that restless, no good father of mine, I'm ta

MAYAI opened my mouth to answer, then closed it again. I'd nearly given away the Halcyon Court address, and that wasn't something I wanted floating around outside my own head."My phone's lost somewhere in all the chaos. Could I borrow one to call my son?" I offered an apologetic smile. Having Bruce collect Caleb was fine. Having him go straight to Halcyon Court was not. I needed to tell Caleb to meet somewhere else entirely."Of course, Ms Bennett—" Bruce started forward, phone already half offered, when another voice cut through."Use mine."Adrian was already holding his out.Bruce froze mid step. Only a handful of people had that private number, and here he was handing it to someone he'd barely known a few hours.Bruce quietly slipped his own phone back into his pocket without another word.I took the offered device without argument, found it unlocked, dialled Caleb's number.Three rings later, it connected."Hey, it's Mum," I said first.A brief pause, then his voice. "Mum? Wher

ADRIAN"Go, go, go, hurry up!" Whatever had just happened back there, if they were bold enough to strike in public, there'd be more of them waiting somewhere close.We needed distance, fast."On it. Our people are already moving," Bruce said, firing off a rapid string of alerts.The driver, doubling as my own guard, knew exactly what he was doing. The car cut through the busy streets, straight toward the nearest secure ground.Maya twisted in her seat, glancing back.The crowd behind us was massive, and not one of them had noticed a thing. Every eye was fixed on the wrecked truck instead. Whoever had done this had wanted it to look like nothing more than a runaway vehicle.Ruthless, whoever they were. A sniper planted in the middle of a crowded district, in broad daylight.The shot had come from a perfect angle. Had it landed, it would have been an execution, staged in the open, in front of half the city. I didn't want to think through what came after that."Seems you've made some rea

MAYA"Wow, that was fun! Can we do it again?"A child's cheerful voice cut clean through the tension still hanging over the street.Every head turned. I stood there holding the little girl safely in my arms, both of us untouched."Nina!"An old man rushed over, unsteady on his feet, the fear finally draining out of him now that he could hear her voice."Grandpa, that was amazing! Felt like flying!" she chattered, still clinging to me. "Miss, can we do that again?"I stayed quiet."Nina, you scared me half to death. If your grandmother ever hears about this, she won't forgive either of us." He looked at me, eyes wet with gratitude, hands trembling as he gently lifted her out of my arms. "Miss, thank you. Thank you so much.""Pretty lady, I want to play again!" she said, reluctant to let go of my hand.I glanced at her, then at the ruined cake nearby, and shrugged. "Shame. I was going to give you that.""Go buy the child another cake," a deep voice said behind me.I turned. A tall man s

MAYAMy eyes went dark hearing that. "Caleb!"He stuck his tongue out, grinning. "Just kidding, Mum! Look at me, all sweet and innocent. Would I ever do something like that?"My expression settled into something more serious. "The more Nathaniel tries to box me in, the more I'll prove I can build a life he has nothing to do with."I opened my laptop, sorted through the replies again. I skipped past the ones tied to Cole Industries, hopeless now. The rest were small firms, too afraid to cross an Alpha, which meant they wouldn't be offering interviews either.Nathaniel was trying to corner me. Did he honestly think I'd come crawling back?Not a chance.Forget design entirely, even if I switched fields altogether, he'd probably find some way to smother that too. Who did he think he was? Alpha of the strongest pack in the country didn't make him ruler of everything else.I set those options aside and started searching for companies outside his reach.Blackstorm's business arm was a giant