SELINE'S FANTASY
In the bustling city of Lagos, Nigeria, where dreams clash with harsh realities, Seline's journey unfolds. Born into a humble family, she carries the weight of responsibility on her young shoulders, driven by a burning desire to uplift her loved ones from the clutches of poverty.
With her diploma in hand, Seline sets out on a quest for a job that will allow her to support her family and bring them a glimmer of hope. But life's unexpected twists and turns often defy our plans. As fate weaves its intricate tapestry, Seline's path intersects with that of Sweet, a charismatic and affluent celebrity known for his reckless playboy ways.
Their encounter sets in motion a whirlwind of emotions and challenges. Seline finds herself drawn to Sweet's magnetic charisma, but she knows that getting involved with him could lead to heartbreak and derail her dreams. Yet, as the saying goes, the heart wants what it wants.
Caught between her aspirations and the allure of Sweet's charm, Seline wrestles with the complexities of her emotions. Will she choose to guard her heart and remain focused on her goals, or will she succumb to the seductive power of love and desire?
Baca
Chapter: The Question, Properly AskedSweet had been unusually quiet for the better part of a week, a fact Seline noticed but chose, mostly, not to comment on, recognizing the particular quality of his silence as something deliberate rather than distant. She'd learned, over the past year, to tell the difference between him retreating from her and him building toward something he wasn't ready to share yet, and this, she was fairly certain, was the second kind."You've been planning something," she said finally, on a quiet Thursday evening, watching him fail to properly focus on whatever he was pretending to read."Maybe," he admitted, setting the book aside entirely. "Can you keep Saturday free? No lab commitments, no Reach planning, nothing.""That's ominous, given our history with surprise plans.""Good ominous, I promise. Trust me?""Always," she said, and meant it completely, the word arriving as easily now as it had the night she'd said the same thing in the car after the first mob
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Chapter: Launch DayThe morning of Reach's first mobile clinic arrived with the particular chaos of a plan meeting reality for the first time, equipment that needed last-minute checking, volunteers arriving in staggered waves, a community leader in the small town outside Lagos who'd agreed to host them greeting Seline at the gate with more nervous energy than she'd expected from a man who'd clearly seen decades of outside organizations promise things they never delivered."You're really coming yourselves," he said, watching the small convoy of vehicles unload equipment into the community hall his church had offered for the day. "Not just sending equipment and leaving us to figure it out.""We're here for the whole day," Seline confirmed. "Every test, every result, explained properly, by people who'll actually be here to answer questions. That was the whole point.""Forgive my skepticism," he said. "We've had promises like this before. People come once, take photographs, and disappe
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-09-25
Chapter: Building Something SmallThe idea started as a joke, the way most of the best ones did between them, tossed out over breakfast on an ordinary Saturday morning."You should start your own thing," Sweet said, watching her scroll through job listings on her phone out of habit rather than actual need, a leftover reflex from years of needing to always be looking for the next opportunity. "Not another position somewhere. Your own lab, eventually. Or your own initiative, at least. You clearly have opinions about how affordable diagnostics should actually work. You've had them since your interview with Dr. Nwosu.""That's a bigger leap than 'start your own thing' makes it sound," Seline said, though the idea landed somewhere it hadn't quite landed before, settling in rather than bouncing off the way most casual suggestions did."Every big thing starts as a smaller one," Sweet said. "You didn't start as Dr. Nwosu's research assistant. You started as a girl serving wine at a party, wondering how
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Chapter: The Question Nobody Asked YetIt was Kachi, unexpectedly, who first noticed the shift."You're basically married already," he announced one Sunday afternoon, sprawled across the couch at their mother's house while Seline packed a small bag of things to take back to Sweet's, a routine that had become so ordinary over the past few weeks that she'd stopped consciously registering how much of her life had quietly migrated across town. "You have a key. You have a toothbrush there. You do that thing where you finish his sentences about work stuff. When's the wedding?""Nobody said anything about a wedding, Kachi.""You didn't say anything about it," he corrected, with the particular smugness of a teenager who'd recently discovered he could win arguments through observation alone. "I'm just saying what everyone's obviously thinking.""Out of the mouths of babes," her mother said from the kitchen doorway, not even trying to hide her amusement."I'm fifteen, not a baby.""You'll always be a baby to me," their mother said,
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Chapter: A Key of Her OwnSweet brought it up over breakfast, of all places, sliding a small velvet pouch across the counter with the same nonchalance he might have used to pass her the salt."What's this?" Seline asked, eyeing it with immediate suspicion, memories of every previous "small gesture" that had turned out to be anything but small still fresh enough to make her wary."Open it and find out."Inside was a single key, plain and unremarkable, nothing like the dramatic reveal her imagination had briefly, wildly conjured in the half-second before she'd actually looked."A key," she said slowly."To here. This house." He watched her carefully, some of his usual ease dimming into something more uncertain. "I'm not saying it to be dramatic, or to rush anything. I just ...... you're here most nights anyway, Seline. You keep half your things in my closet already. I thought it might be nice i
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-09-13
Chapter: What the Evening BecameThey stayed like that a long while, the tension of the week slowly dissolving into something softer, the two of them tangled together on the couch with the lights dimmed low and the television playing to no one in particular, some old film neither of them was actually watching. Seline felt the last of Aunty Folake's voice finally quiet in her chest, replaced by something warmer, steadier — the simple, uncomplicated comfort of being exactly where she wanted to be, with someone who had spent the entire evening simply listening rather than trying to fix her."Thank you," she said softly, tracing idle patterns against his chest through the thin fabric of his shirt. "For actually listening instead of just trying to solve it, or telling me I was overreacting.""I'm learning," Sweet said, pressing a kiss to the top of her head. "Slowly, but I'm learning. You've had a lot of patience with me these past months, teaching me how to a
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-09-12
Chapter: CHAPTER 96: A DIFFERENT KIND OF BEGINNINGFor the first time since Zion had known her, Amy Armstrong was struggling to say something she wanted more than she was willing to admit.She sat beside her husband on the living room sofa, her fingers loosely intertwined with his, wondering whether she had chosen the right moment to begin a conversation that could change their lives forever. The documents from her meeting with Diamond Groups lay forgotten on the coffee table. Only an hour earlier, she had been celebrating Aurelia's latest achievement, delighted by the prospect of working with the company she had once been so determined to escape.Now, however, her thoughts had travelled far beyond boardrooms, partnerships, and financial projections.She wanted a child.More precisely, she wanted to have a child with Zion.The distinction mattered because there had been a time when she could barely imagine spending an entire working day in his company without arguing. Now, she was contemplating raising another human being with him, sh
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-13
Chapter: CHAPTER 100: HOMEThe first sign that something had changed was the silence.Amy noticed it on a Tuesday morning when she walked into Aurelia and realised she had nothing urgent waiting for her.No missed calls from clients. No message marked immediate. No team member standing outside her office with a problem that could apparently only be solved by her.She set her handbag down and looked at the neatly arranged desk.For a moment, she wondered whether she had forgotten something.Then her managing director appeared at the doorway.“Good morning.”“Good morning. Is everything okay?”He smiled. “Everything is fine.”“That sounds suspicious.”“You're allowed to have a quiet morning.”Amy looked at him.“Who authorised that?”“You did.”She laughed.He handed her a report. “The quarterly numbers are rea
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Chapter: CHAPTER 99: THE LIFE THEY CHOSEThe appointment was on a Wednesday morning, but Amy woke before the alarm.For several minutes, she remained beneath the covers, staring at the ceiling while the first pale light of morning slipped through the curtains. Zion was still asleep beside her, one arm resting across the empty space where she had moved away from him.She turned toward him.There had been a time when uncertainty between them had made mornings unbearable. She would wake wondering what he was thinking, what he was hiding, whether something she had said had changed the way he saw her.Now she knew the rhythm of his breathing. She knew the expression he wore when he was pretending to sleep. She knew he would complain if she left the bed without waking him.She smiled.Then she slipped out of bed.By the time Zion found her downstairs, she was standing in the kitchen with two cups of coffee.“You didn't wake me.”“You looked peaceful
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Chapter: CHAPTER 98: WHAT THEY HAD BUILTBy the time Friday arrived, Amy had almost forgotten what it felt like to be nervous about an ordinary business meeting.Almost.She stood in front of the mirror that morning, adjusting the sleeve of her cream blazer while Zion watched from the bedroom doorway.“You've changed outfits three times,” he observed.“Four.”He smiled. “That doesn't make it better.”Amy turned toward him. “Today matters.”“It does.”“The development board is reviewing the final structure. Northbridge is moving into the next stage. Aurelia's numbers are stronger than they were six months ago, and Diamond's partnership is officially underway.” She paused, studying her reflection. “I just want everything to go well.”Zion walked over and gently straightened the collar of her blazer.“You know what I learned about you?”“That I'm dif
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Chapter: CHAPTER 97: WHENThe envelope remained between them on the kitchen counter, small enough to fit beneath Zion’s palm, yet Amy had stared at it for nearly a minute as though it contained the answer to a question she had spent years avoiding.She finally looked up at him. “You went to the doctor?”Zion nodded, pulling out the chair opposite her. “For a consultation. Nothing is wrong, Amy. I don't want you thinking something is.”The tension in her shoulders eased, though curiosity immediately replaced it. “Then what is this?”He slid the envelope toward her.Inside was a simple appointment card and a short information sheet about family planning and preparing for pregnancy. There was nothing dramatic about it, nothing secretive or frightening. Zion had simply decided that if they were going to stop speaking about children as some distant possibility and begin treating the idea as part of their actual future, they should approach it thoughtfully.Amy read the appointment date twice.“You really did this?”
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Chapter: CHAPTER 96: CONVERSATION ABOUT TOMORROWZion did not answer immediately.Amy had expected surprise. Perhaps even a joke to ease the sudden seriousness of the conversation. Instead, he remained completely still, his hand wrapped around hers as he studied her face.The silence made Amy nervous.“I didn't mean that we have to ..”“I know.”She stopped.Zion squeezed her hand gently.“I know what you meant.”Amy looked down at their hands. “Then why aren't you saying anything?”“Because I'm trying not to say the first thing that comes into my head.”That made her smile.“Why?”“Because the first thing that came into my head was that I would like that very much.”Her smile disappeared into something softer.“Oh.”Zion leaned back against the sofa.“I just didn't want to answer so quickly that you thought I was agreeing because you said it.”Amy studied him.“And you're not?”“No.”He turned toward her.“I've thought about it too.”The admission settled between them with surprising warmth.For months, they had spoken about childr
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Married to the Alpha Who Killed My Father
For ten years, Aria Voss has worn grief like armor. She was fifteen when Alpha Kade Thorne's men dragged her father into the pack square and executed him as a traitor. She's spent every year since sharpening herself into a weapon learning poisons, learning patience, waiting for the day the Thorne pack would kneel to a peace treaty and hand her the one thing she's wanted more than survival: proximity to her father's killer.
That day comes sooner than she expects. The war-weary Alpha Council brokers peace between the Voss and Thorne packs, sealed the old way through marriage. Aria is given to Kade Thorne as his bride.
She smiles through the wedding. She kisses him at the altar. She plans to have him dead by morning.
Then his wolf recognizes her, and hers answers. Mate. The bond slams into place before she can stop it, and the poison stays hidden in her sleeve.
Worse follows. When Aria digs for proof of Kade's guilt, she finds none, only evidence that the massacre was orchestrated by someone inside her own pack, someone who benefited from both sides bleeding. Someone who still sits at her family's table.
Now Aria is trapped in a marriage built on a lie she can't unravel without exposing herself, bonded to a mate she was raised to hate, and closer than ever to the uncle who murdered her father and let an innocent man take the blame. Kade is hunting the same conspiracy from his side, unaware his bride is the daughter of the man he's been falsely blamed for killing.
Every tender look between them is a performance for two watching packs, until the fated bond makes it unbearably real, and the truth threatens to burn down the marriage, and both of them with it.
Baca
Chapter: The BannerThe man on the black horse raised one gold-ringed hand, and the riders behind him stopped as one, a clean line against the skyline. It was the stillness of men who had been paid to be patient."Lady Elara," he called, and his voice carried down the slope as warm as a wedding toast. "Forgive the crowd. I wanted the introduction to be proper."He rode down alone, leaving the line at his back, and Elara understood that the aloneness was a performance too. He was fifty or so and heavy through the shoulders, with a merchant's careful beard and eyes that never stopped counting. Beside him, on a thin grey mare, rode a lean, stooped man with a clerk's squint. Elara knew the name before anyone offered it. Harwick. A dismissed functionary nursing an old grudge in the east, the dull thread in Rurik's report that nobody had thought worth pulling."Hollis Merrow," the heavy man said, drawing rein a few paces from the wall. "Master of the Eastern Trading Guild, thoug
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Chapter: Two CupsElara felt the men in the trees long before she saw them. Brennan's riders kept a quarter mile back and a little uphill, so quiet that the only sign of them was the way the birds went still and then began again behind her. She did not look round. Her mother had taught her that much.The Voss road wound up through the oaks into thin grey light. She had ridden it on the first of every month since she was twelve, and she knew where the frost lay longest and where the hill would open and show the valley her grandfather had once ruled. This morning the beauty of it felt like an insult. The silver pin in her braid was cold against her scalp, and the little wooden bird rode against her ribs, light as nothing.If Garrick's whistle sounds, drop to the floor and don't think.She came over the rise and saw the memorial garden spread out below her, the old headstones in their careful rows, the small stone chapel at its edge. A man was sitting on the low wall beside
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Chapter: The Patience of Old FriendsKade did not move. Garrick waited with his hand open at his side, the way a man waits when he has delivered the worst of a report and knows the rest is for someone else to decide."The lodge," Aria said. She was surprised at how level it came out. "Deren's report is the only door we have. Go through it. The back stair, as planned.""Fenna...""Is in my house. I'll find her." She laid her hand flat against his chest, over the place where a bond had once snapped into being. "Our daughter is on that road, Kade. Go."He held her gaze one breath longer. Then he turned and ran, shouting for horses, and Garrick went after him.The guest wing was silent. Fenna's door stood ajar. The bed was unslept, the grey gown with its silver trim folded over a chair, the tea tray untouched. The balcony window was open, and the curtain stirred in the dawn air.Aria stood in the doorway and made herself think instead of run. A woman who had kept her face for sixteen years would not flee at the first lost pa
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Chapter: The TermsAria found her at the low stone wall in the garden, where the dark had settled blue and the first stars were out. Elara had her back to the house and the wooden bird in her lap. She didn't turn when the gate creaked."You've already decided," Aria said."Since the braid." Elara still didn't turn. "I'm sorry. I know what it sounds like.""It sounds like courage." Aria sat beside her, close enough that their shoulders touched. "It also sounds exactly like me, the night I decided to carry a vial into my own wedding. I'd convinced myself the only way to settle the thing was to walk into it alone.""You walked into it alone because everyone who loved you was lying to you." Elara finally looked at her. In the dusk her eyes were Kade's, grey and steady. "I'm not lying to you. I'm telling you what I'm going to do while you can still help me do it properly."Aria's throat tightened. She had braced for a girl running toward danger. She had not braced for one asking for company.Her own mother h
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Chapter: The Gift"No," Kade said. "She doesn't set foot near Elara.""And if we refuse her, what does Fenna learn?" Aria kept her voice low, though the door was shut and Rurik's chamber was as private as any room in the compound. "That we know. A woman who has kept her face for sixteen years won't lose it over a refused birthday gift. She'll simply walk out of our gates, and Wren Sorrel will be a name we say at funerals.""We have a gesture Rurik saw across a hall, and a horse with a clipped ear," Ronan said. He had finally taken off his cloak, and without it he looked younger and more exhausted. "That arrests no one. I know. I couldn't arrest Vell on a hunch either.""You had a payment ledger for Vell," Kade said."And you have a bird with four words in it." Ronan's mouth twisted. "Forgive me. I'm only saying it's thinner than we'd like."Kade turned back to the window. Aria let him stand there, because she knew that stance. He was building a wall in his chest, br
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-10-10
Chapter: What Rurik SawThey carried the little wooden bird up to Rurik's chamber, all of them, Ronan still in his mud-stained cloak because he refused to waste the time to change. The healer met them at the door with her arms folded and a protest ready. One look at Kade's face and she stepped aside.Rurik was sitting up when they came in. He had clearly heard the commotion and guessed that something had broken open. Elara crossed to the bed and put the slip of paper in his hand without a word.He read it once. Then he lowered it to the blanket and looked at nothing in particular for so long that Aria thought his heart had failed him again."Rurik," Kade said quietly."I told you I had been afraid to say one thing for six weeks." The old advisor's voice was dry as paper. "That was only half of it. The other half I've carried for sixteen years."No one moved. Outside the window the afternoon light was going thin and gold."The day Damion was judged," Rurik said, "wh
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