His Reluctant Bride: Contracted To My Enemy
"Let me go," I snapped, even though my voice wasn’t as sharp as I wanted it to be.
“No,” he growled, lips grazing the shell of my ear, his breath warm and wicked as his hand slid down, fingers pressing just above my thigh, and trailed all the way to my wet fold.
“You want to hate this, don’t you?” he whispered, mouth trailing hot kisses along my neck as his hand shifted my underwear, “But your body’s begging, baby.”
I gasped, lips parting, and before I could spit out a comeback, he crushed his mouth to mine.
The kiss was rough, full of hunger, and I whimpered into his mouth before I could stop myself.
My body pressed into his, desperate for more.
But he suddenly pulled both his lips and hand back, “Say the word and I’ll stop.”
I stared at him. My chest was rising and falling too fast. My lips were swollen. My thighs, God, I was throbbing.
I want, I need.
He pressed a knee between my legs and my and I mewed.
Yes, me. I mewed like some needy, pathetic bitch in heat. For him.
"That’s what I thought," he growled, and the next second he pinned both my wrists above my head and kissed me like he was trying to ruin me all over again.
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Liora once has a powerful name, a future paved in gold, until Tristan Cole walked in and tore everything apart.
Now, years later, Liora is forced into a marriage contract with the very man who destroyed her life, all to save her dying brother.
But Tristan wants something more dangerous.
Her heart. Her body, all of her.
Will love be her ultimate undoing? Or will she crawl out of wreckage and gain control?
Baca
Chapter: Handle anything LioraIt was dark around me, but I could hear voice like distant echoes at the back of my mind. I wasn’t waking up, not really. I knew that much given that the last thing I remembered was the gun, and the sharp pain tearing through me, now I was here, floating somewhere between everything and nothing.Am I… in heaven? I thought. But no.. heaven wouldn’t feel this empty. It wouldn’t be this cold or terrifyingly quiet.“Miss…?” a male voice said, distant yet near enough to pull at me. I tried to reach toward it, but my body wouldn’t listen. It felt like swimming through cold dark water. So I tried again, but the voice drifted away.Then another warm hand touch me gently,“Liora… sweetheart, if you can hear me, please.. you need to wake up. Please.”That voice. My heart clenched. There was something so broken in it that I wanted to cry, to tell whoever it was to stop hurting. It was him, I knew it was him and all I wanted right then was to get to him, so I started following the sound, p
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Chapter: Reckless, maybe.Tristan I was searched immediately when I got here.After they checked me and confirmed I had no weapon, he told them to bring me closer. They did.Relief flooded through me so suddenly it almost hurt. Even though I’d been holding onto the hope that she was still alive, but sometimes… sometimes my mind would drift to darker places. And seeing her alive made me realize how much I've missed her. So much that all I wanted in that moment was to pull her into my arms, to hold her and never let go. I wanted to pull her into me so badly it hurt. I wanted to shove my face into her hair and promise I’d never let anything like this happen again. I wanted to find every man who’d touched her and break them.I wanted to kill Victor in ever agonizing possible ways for someone I used to think I could trust. But I was wrong. He wanted something that was never his to take.They pushed me down into a chair beside Liora and strapped my hands tight and I let them do it without struggling. The cold bit
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Chapter: A few hoursLioraI couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Because there was no way, I mean no possible way this could be real even though he was standing right there in front of me, alive.Because as long as I'm concerned, this man wasn’t supposed to be alive, not even close.I still remember that time after FYS went under, I still remember how he got into that car accident, how his body was brought back to us and we buried him.We freaking buried him.Mom almost lost her mind after that. She’d sit for hours staring into nothing, talking to someone who wasn’t there.It got so bad that even though we were all grieving, I had to pull myself together because of Caleb.I couldn’t let him feel abandoned or let him think we’d stopped being a family since Mom wasn’t really living anymore.At least… not until she found alcohol.And then she just started drowning herself in it, day after day.All of that pain. All of that loss. Because this man who's supposedly my father died.Or so we thought.But now, loo
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Chapter: Storm outside Tristan “Damn it!” I hissed under my breath slamming my fist hard on the table in the empty warehouse, the sound echoing through the space.. “I’m too late.”By the time we got here, they were already gone.One of the cops ran in, slightly out of breath. “Sir! You guys have to see this!” he called.We followed him outside, and on the ground were fresh tire marks, deep and clear.“They must’ve known we were coming,” Dante said beside me, crouching to get a closer look. He insisted on coming and I was just in too much of a hurry to refuse him. “Yeah,” I muttered, jaw tight. “They evacuated fast.”I stared at the tracks a moment longer, my mind racing. She was here. And now… she was gone again because I wasn't fast enough.My phone rang in my pocket. I pulled it out and saw Allen’s name flashing on the screen.I answered and placed it against my ear.“Did you get them?” he asked.“No,” I said, my voice low. “We’re too late. Somehow they knew we were coming, and he ran off with her. I’m
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Chapter: The other man LioraI was jolted awake by the sound of things moving around the room.My eyes blinked open, still heavy with sleep, only to see the man from before untying the ropes that bound my wrists. His expression was tense, his voice sharper than it ever was as he barked an order to the other guy in the room.When did another person get here? As far as I'm concerned, it's always been him alone.“Go get the car ready,” he said quickly, then turned back to me. He finally freed my hands only to press the cold mouth of a gun against my head. “Stand up. We’re moving.”“What?” I blinked, startled, every trace of drowsiness gone from my face. But before I could say anything, he shoved me forward.I stumbled out of the room, his hand gripping my arm tight as he dragged me outside. The place looked even more desolate than I thought like some abandoned warehouse. And it was only then I understood why he’d told me earlier that no one would hear me scream. We were in the middle of nowhere.He pushed me
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Chapter: Special squads Tristan“Maybe you should actually start doing your job! How the hell can one man be so hard to be found?” I snapped, slamming my hand against the desk. “It’s been seven damn days since she disappeared and you guys have brought nothing useful so far!”The men standing in front of me flinched. They’d been working around the clock, or so they claimed, but all their updates sounded the same without anything good enough to work on. One of them, Steve stepped forward carefully. “We’re trying, sir. We’ve checked every possible lead CCTV footage, road exits, even the hospitals but there’s been no trace of her.”“You’re telling me a woman was taken in broad daylight and not a single person saw a thing?”“What the hell is all the payment for then?!” I snapped, raking my fingers roughly through my hair. “You’re not even doing anything that’s worth it!”Steve opened his mouth to respond, but before he could, the door to my office swung open without a knock and Allen walked in.Perfect. The last
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Chapter: Chapter eighty one: Alice and Graham EmberI had no idea what she'll be saying next but I want to hear it so bad I've never wanted to hear anything. Astrid is a mess. I'm even messier as I felt as if my soul had flown away from me, leaving me with a faint energy and bigger curiosity.“I'm the bad guy, a shameless whore who slept with her step daughter's mate on the full moon, then went home to kill her father because I wanted to keep it a secret, because I hated her a lot, yeah? I even fell in love with her mate, got pregnant with his child, I admitted the latter, but the former, I'm never admitting to it because I didn't do it, I was just one of the people involved in the plan, and we all did it to protect you! Derek, Rowan, me… all of us, yet, you've been living your best life during these four years without any hassle while we threaded thin ice here… but what's fate really? Something Derek believed his death would change, something I believe your hatred would change, something even your mother Renee believed she coul
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Chapter: Chapter eighty: Never the killerEmberI stood there, heart racing, as Astrid appeared in the doorway. The moment she saw me, her brow furrowed, a frown settling across her face. She clutched her round belly as if it could shield her from whatever she was feeling. There was a tension in the air, with a mix of worry and something else I couldn't quite decipher at that moment.Astrid’s hand paused on the door, ready to slam it shut, but I stepped in her way. Her glare could have burned a hole through me.“What are you doing here?” she shot back.“I’m not here because I want to be,” I said, keeping my voice calm. “If I’d known it was your place, I would’ve turned around. But since I’m here, I need answers. What happened four years ago?”The silence between us was heavy with unspoken words. I could see the conflict in her eyes—anger mixed with something deeper. However I wasn’t about to back down; I needed to know, I didn't came all the way here to be slammed the door upon on, all my prejudice against her was temporarily
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Chapter: Chapter seventy nine: Unknown father EmberI threw two dresses into the mini box, grabbed a few necessities, and finally took my spare toothbrush, just in case. After zipping it up, I carried it out. Lyra was solemnly wiping Kai's body with a wet towel. I exhaled. I can't back away now—I have to go. I walked up to his side and crouched next to him. “Mommy, is that you?” His little fingers landed on my cheeks, and with all my strength, I pressed back my sobs, whispering in a broken voice, “Yes, baby, it's your mommy.” “Lyra said you're going to be back soon.” He took a short pause, blinking rapidly as he stared at my face before eventually asking, “Are you leaving me alone?” “No, baby, I would never do that. The thing is, Mommy has to get you chocolates, a bunch of them.” “I… don’t want chocolates. I only want Mommy.” Streaks of tears ran down my face, and this time I didn’t wipe them off. Instead, I let them flow freely. “I’m sorry, baby… Mommy is really sorry you're going through this. You know what? Mommy
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Chapter: Chapter seventy eight: In your careEmberI kept staring at the letter with wide eyed, confused; first I had know idea how this got here, secondly how the heck did the person knew that I wants answers, answers to everything, the gut feeling is gnawing on me, yet I always finds a make believe to rid that thought, just like this letter stated that I wanted answers.But what answers would I probably want? What answers do I really seek? Why can't I say it, why don't I know it. I stared at the address which clearly reads a house in Arizona. Do I really want to do this? Honestly, I have no idea, whatever this is, whatever will come from it, but I folded it and put it back going out of the room to the yard. For some peace and quiet, maybe I could fatten my thoughts and come up with a reasonable plan on how to help my son get better. And maybe I could even go back to Arizona, in contrast to the fact that the man had come all the way from Arizona to Florida to look for me, but since I pushed him away, he definitely must've go
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Chapter: Chapter seventy seven: All you need to know EmberAfter Maverick was gone, I couldn't make sense of what's going on. I washed my face in the bathroom, swinging back my hair to get off the water that drenched it, eventually grabbing a towel and wrapped it around my head like a burrito. Exhaling, I walked out of my room to check Lyra's door which was still very much locked, thus has been on lock since the moment she stormed out of my face in the sitting room.I walked into the sitting room to touch Kai's forehead, he was still burning up, but not as hot as he was when I'd come back. He wasn't supposed to get sick again since Lyra got him the herbs that had kept his condition stabilized since we came back to Florida, so I never have to bother about looking for the man, however hearing the news earlier was not only a blow to me, but it makes me even more panicked. And thankfully, having him around for a few seconds reduces the boy's temperature, however, now I can't really tell for sure because he's a little hot now doesn't mean
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Chapter: Chapter seventy six: AliceMaverickI had planned tonight to be very colourful and bright so Ember could enjoy it as much as she wants, after having Alex scout around for one of the biggest and beautiful beach around here I had shut down the whole place so we can have all the time— Alone, and I was glad she really came looking stunning in her dress.I had made sure to also reserve the top floor of the restaurant on the island where I hoped we'll spend the night, but she was so curious to know what I have in store, however I was determined to not share it with her.We got off the yacht and made for the building, however her phone rang, but just after the call ended she was trembling. Her face turned so pale that I had to calm her down. She wanted me to follow her, which I did without a second thought. The sound of that boy going sick affected me so much that I yelled at the sailor to get the Yacht moving again.When we got out of the car, I was really surprised to see the familiar environment we're in. Why would
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