CONTRACT OF FATE
Billionaire heir Alexander Sterling is tired of his mother’s relentless matchmaking with spoiled socialites. In a desperate move to escape, he proposes a contract marriage to Elena Carter, a struggling waitress he met on a drunken night at a restaurant. She sees it as a golden ticket to cover her mom's medical bills, unaware she’s stepping into a life of cold indifference and relentless torment. Bound for three years, their marriage is filled with icy glares and unspoken pain. But in their second year, a mistake leads to an unexpected pregnancy. Fearful of his wrath and threats of Eleanor, Elena hides the truth, enduring his cruelty in silence. As time passes, Alexander begins to feel something he never expected. But pride keeps him from showing it.
On the verge of the third year, unable to bear the suffering any longer, Elena disappears, presumed dead. Devastated, Alexander is haunted by regret, not knowing she has survived and given birth to their twins. Years later, fate brings them back together this time, as equals.
Wealthy. Independent. A mother of two. Elena is no longer the fragile woman he once controlled. But their reunion is complicated by the arrival of Matteo De Luca, a ruthless Italian billionaire with a vendetta against Alexander and an interest in Elena. With enemies on all sides and unresolved emotions between them, will love conquer all? Or will the past destroy any chance of redemption?
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 47— VICTOR —I had been with the Sterling family for twenty-two years.In twenty-two years I had delivered a great many things to a great many people in this house. Financial reports that changed the direction of the company. Legal communications that required the specific measured handling of information that carried weight. The news of Reymond Sterling's voluntary departure, which was not voluntary and which I had been present for in ways that the official record did not reflect.I had never delivered anything like this.I stood outside the study door at two seventeen in the afternoon with a phone in my hand and the officer's words still sitting in my chest where they had landed forty minutes ago when the call came through the company line because the personal number had not been answered and they had gone to the next available contact and I had been the next available contact.Personal effects recovered.A bag. Documentation. A rosary.I had stood in the corridor outside the kitchen
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Chapter: Chapter 46— ELENA —The safe house was in Connecticut.Not what I had expected when I imagined the word safe, not warm, not hidden, not the specific cozy concealment of something built to comfort. It was a house that communicated function rather than feeling. Clean lines. Minimal furniture. Windows that faced a direction that gave nothing away about where exactly in Connecticut we were. A house that had been used for this purpose before and showed it in the specific, impersonal quality of spaces that were everyone's temporarily and no one's permanently.I had been here for four days.Four days of the driver bringing food that I ate mechanically at the kitchen table. Four days of a phone that could receive but not make calls, De Luca's restriction, explained without apology by a man I had still not met in person, communicated through the driver who was the only human contact I had. Four days of a pregnancy that was advancing with the relentless biological efficiency of something that did not car
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Chapter: Chapter 45— ELENA —Sophie woke me at four AM.Not with a knock. She came through the apartment door with the key Dr. Osei had given her and she crossed the room and she put her hand on my shoulder and when I opened my eyes she was already looking at me with the expression that told me before she said a word that something had changed."We need to move," she said. Quiet. Immediate.I sat up. "What happened.""Someone called me," she said. "A number I did not recognize. A man. He told me the clinic had been compromised and that you needed to leave before morning."I looked at her."De Luca," I said."I do not know," she said. "He did not give a name. He gave me an address and told me there would be a car outside in twenty minutes." She held my gaze. "Elena. I think we should go."I was already getting up.I did not have much to gather. The bag I had brought was already packed, had never been unpacked, had sat on the floor beside the bed like something that understood its own purpose. I picked it
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Chapter: Chapter 44— ALEXANDER —I sat in the back of the car with the clinic building forty feet away and the unknown number on my screen and I answered it because not answering felt like the worse option and I had run out of good ones.Silence first.Then a voice.Male. Unhurried. The accent underneath it like something deliberately managed, European in origin, smoothed at the edges by years in rooms that did not have a single country. The voice of a man who had learned to be fluent in the language of whatever room he was currently occupying."Mr. Sterling," the voice said.I went still.He knew my name. He had called my number. Neither of these things were supposed to be possible for a person I did not know and the fact of them told me something about the nature of what I was dealing with before he had said another word."Who is this," I said."Someone who knows where your wife is," the voice said. "And who would prefer that you stay in that car."I looked at the building. At the lamp in the ground f
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-09-13
Chapter: Chapter 43— ALEXANDER —The voice talked for eleven minutes.I sat in the back of the car and I listened with the complete focused attention I reserved for things that required it and I did not interrupt. I had learned, over years of high-stakes negotiation, that the impulse to interrupt was the impulse of a man who was more interested in his own response than in the full shape of what was being offered. I had trained it out of myself professionally.Tonight I was grateful for that training.Because what the voice was telling me required the full eleven minutes to receive properly.It told me about my father. Not the document version, Victor's version, the version of events I had just read in my study. Something older than that. Something that predated the document by years and that the document had been constructed, deliberately and with legal precision, to obscure.It told me about Eleanor. The specific nature of her arrangement with Reymond since his departure. The communication that had bee
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-09-11
Chapter: Chapter 42— ELENA —The clinic was exactly as Sophie had described it.A narrow building on a quiet street forty minutes east of the city, the kind of building that had been many things before it became this, you could see it in the bones of the architecture, the way the ground floor windows were slightly too large for a medical practice and slightly too small for a shop front. A building that had been repurposed by someone who understood that certain kinds of help required a certain kind of invisibility.The driver stopped in front of it without being directed.I looked at him in the rearview mirror."How did you know the address?" I asked.He met my eyes in the mirror. "I was told to bring you here.""By whom."He looked back at the road. "You will have answers soon. Not from me."I looked at the building.Then I got out.---The door was unlocked.This struck me as the kind of detail that was either reassuring or the opposite, a door left unlocked at this hour either meant I was expected or
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BOUND MOONLIGHT: The Alpha's Forbidden Mate
She saved his life. Now she's carrying his secret.
One reckless night changed everything for Maya Chen. When she stumbled upon a wounded stranger in the woods, she never imagined he was Kai Blackwood, Alpha of the most powerful werewolf pack in North America, and heir to the throne of all shifter kind.
Their connection was instant, primal, undeniable. But when dawn broke, so did the illusion. Kai vanished, leaving Maya with nothing but fragmented memories and a growing secret: she's pregnant with the future Alpha King's child.
For Kai, that night was supposed to be meaningless, another fleeting encounter to satisfy the restless wolf inside him.
He's always kept humans at arm's length, knowing the ancient laws that govern his world: An Alpha must mate with a she-wolf. Only pure bloodlines can inherit the crown.
But Maya is different. Her touch awakened something in him he thought long buried. Her curves haunt his dreams. Her scent calls to his wolf in ways no she-wolf ever has. And now, learning she carries his pup, Kai faces an impossible choice.
The pack elders demand he reject her. His destined she-wolf mate is already chosen. The werewolf council will never accept a human queen. But Kai's wolf has claimed Maya as his own, and walking away might destroy them both.
As ancient enemies circle and pack politics turn deadly, Maya finds herself thrust into a supernatural world that wants her gone. She's not just fighting for Kai's heart, she's fighting for her life and her unborn child's future.
In a world where tradition is law and love is forbidden, can an Alpha defy his destiny? Or will the bond between human and wolf be their undoing?
Baca
Chapter: Chapter 35: The SageMAYA'S POVI had been alone with my thoughts for four days.That was long enough to know every crack in the ceiling. Long enough to have replayed every conversation, every silence, every unanswered question until the words stopped meaning anything. Long enough to start going quietly out of your mind.I was standing at the window with cold tea in my hand when the knock came.Not Marcus. His knock was three beats, unhurried. This was two knocks, rapid, and then without waiting for an answer the door opened and a woman walked in carrying a wooden tray as though she had been expected.She was small, but nothing about her was diminutive. She moved through the room with the ease of someone who had long stopped adjusting herself to suit her surroundings. Dark brown skin, natural hair in a bun that had started the morning with more structure and given up somewhere along the way. She set the tray on the side table without being invited, examined the small glass jar sitting on it briefly, then
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Chapter: Chapter 34: Morning PackMAYA'S POVI woke before dawn.Not because of noise. The east wing was as silent as it always was, the kind of silence that had weight to it, that pressed against the windows and pooled in the corners of rooms. I had learned to sleep inside it over the past few days, had taught myself to stop expecting the ordinary sounds of my old life, traffic, neighbours, the distant bark of someone's dog three floors below. Shadow Peak had its own sounds. Wind in the pines. The groan of old timber settling. The occasional low sound from somewhere deep in the house that I couldn't identify and had stopped trying to.I lay still for a long time, watching the ceiling lighten by degrees as dawn crept through the curtains.The baby moved.A slow roll, deliberate and unhurried, like a question being asked in a language I was only beginning to understand. I pressed my palm flat against my belly and waited. Another movement came. Softer this time. Settling. Like something finding its position and decidin
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Chapter: Chapter 33: NightfallMAYA'S POVThe balcony faced the forest.I had discovered it on my second night, a small iron-railing platform off the sitting room that I hadn't noticed during the day. The door was heavy, the lock stiff, but I had wrestled it open and stepped out into the cold and found myself looking at something I hadn't known I needed.Trees. Endless trees, stretching toward the mountains in waves of dark green and black. The half moon hung above them, silver and incomplete, casting just enough light to outline the shapes of things without revealing what they were.I had been standing here for an hour.Maybe longer. Time moved differently at Shadow Peak, slippery and strange, the hours bleeding into each other in ways I hadn't learned to track. The cold had seeped through my sweater hours ago, but I couldn't bring myself to go inside. Inside was the room. The bed. The silence.Out here, at least, there was the forest. The moon. The wind moving through the branches like something breathing.The ba
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-06-20
Chapter: Chapter 32: The StudyKAI'S POV The study was the only room in the manor where no one entered without permission. I had made it that way deliberately, years ago, when I first took my place as Alpha. A sanctuary. A room where the weight of leadership could be set down, if only for an hour. Where the mask could come off and I could be something other than what everyone needed me to be. Tonight, the mask was suffocating me. I stood at the window, staring out at darkness I couldn't see. My reflection stared back at me from the glass. Hollow-eyed. Jaw tight. A man who had spent the last four days pretending he wasn't falling apart. Behind me, the portrait hung on the wall. My father. The Alpha King. Painted when he was younger than I was now, his expression stern and certain, the weight of a crown he hadn't yet inherited already visible in the set of his shoulders. I had been staring at that portrait my entire life. Had measured myself against it. Had tried to become the man it represented. Tonight
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Chapter: CHAPTER 31: Elena's EntranceMAYA'S POVThe east wing was quiet. Always quiet. I had learned its silences in the time since my arrival, the way footsteps echoed differently in each corridor, the way the old pipes groaned at dawn. Marcus brought meals I barely touched. Sage appeared with tea I let go cold. The windows faced the gardens, frost-laced and empty.And somewhere in this house, Kai moved through his days without coming to find me.I could feel him. A pull I couldn't explain, a compass needle that pointed toward whatever room he occupied. He hadn't crossed the threshold of the east wing since the night I arrived. Maybe he was managing the fallout. Maybe he couldn't face me. I didn't know which possibility hurt more.Morning light slanted through the sitting room windows. I sat with my hands wrapped around a cup I wasn't drinking from, watching frost sparkle on the glass, when the air changed.A pressure shift. The weight of something approaching.I set the cup down.The woman in the doorway was impossible
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-06-18
Chapter: CHAPTER 30: The CallMAYA'S POV "This week," I said. "You knew I was coming this week.""Kai called me four days ago," Marcus said. There was no defensiveness in it, no apology either, just the simple laying out of a fact. "Told me there might be, circumstances. Asked me to have somewhere ready. I didn't know exactly what 'ready' needed to mean, so I erred toward private, and quiet, and as far from the parts of the house where people congregate as the floor plan would allow without putting you in the barn."Something in my chest did something complicated.Four days. The same four days that I had spent learning what Kai was, what I apparently now was, what the small persistent presence under my ribs apparently now was, the same four days, this man, a stranger, had spent making a space ready. Not knowing what for, exactly. Just, making it ready. On the strength of a phone call and the word "circumstances.""Why?" I said.Marcus glanced at me."Why what?""Why would you do that," I said. "For someone yo
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Bound By The CEO's Contract
Natalie Harper leads a simple life. A trained professional secretary, she had always been diligent, organized, and committed to staying out of trouble. Her uneventful life is upended when her gruff boss, Alexander Hayes-a wealthy CEO-makes her an offer she can't refuse: a marriage contract.
Alexander needs a fiancée to save his reputation and to get that crucial business contract, and Natalie fits perfectly. From the beginning, it would seem pretty easy: she gets financial security, and he saves his company. But getting into Alexander's glittering world is far from simple.
Thrown into a whirlwind of lavish parties, prying socialites, and Alexander's guarded past, Natalie quickly realizes she is in over her head. Things get even more complicated when Alexander's ex-fiancée resurfaces, determined to wreak havoc. As old secrets start to unravel, Natalie begins to question everything-especially her own feelings.
The more time she spends by Alexander's side, the more impossible it is not to feel the emotions she was so determined to keep out of their deal.
Is this a game he is playing, or is there really something genuine behind those cold and remote eyes? Can Natalie navigate his world of deceit and power, or will she lose herself in the process?
Baca
Chapter: CHAPTER NINTY TWONatalie’s POVWhile we were still inside the vault, before we left, the vault smelled of dust and metal, a scent that would linger on secrets to never be forgotten. When the gunfire ended, the silence held me firm in my chest. Papers were everywhere on the floor, files scattered in bullet holes, gun bullets were stuck in drawers, and broken locks dangling from drawers.As I picked through this mess, my hands clung tight. Each file weighed more than the last; it was as if the paper had a burden too dark to carry. When Alexander was going through the papers, James took a digital drive out of his pocket. But my eyes saw a black folder tucked under a cabinet, as if someone tried to hide it. My mind got carried away and my focus was on the black folder.I had a feeling that it was meant for me.I went towards the place it was, and I knelt and pulled it out free. It was not my name that was on it but my father's.At inception, I was unable to breathe. I saw the signatures in my father’s han
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Chapter: CHAPTER NINTY ONEAlexander's POV The air of the dark night was thick in silence but the sounds of engines from afar off broke the silence. We parked a block away from Jacob’s luxurious estate which was heavily secured. The mansion stood like a fortress, tall walls of floodlights and armed guards patrolling the high walls in pairs.James moved towards a corner, and he leaned forward, his finger tracing the map he has memorized so many times. “Two minutes between guard shifts here. The camera is motion activated, but there is a blind spot on the west side. We go in then, no hesitation.”His voice was like a whisper, not loud, steady voice but weighed like someone who had done it before. Too often. I studied him, watching his jaw loose, his eyes open. He was not nervous, he was excited. I kept wondering why and that worried me.Natalie was sitting behind me, quiet but watchful. She had altered his plans without him knowing, and only I knew about it. The thought about it made my heart race faster. We wer
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Chapter: CHAPTER NINTY Natalie's POV The moment James explained his grand plan to Alexander I knew something was wrong. His words were too sharp, too polished, like a story that has been rehearsed in front of a mirror before. He spoke confidently, but underneath, I sensed ambition. It wasn’t just about Jacob, it was about power.And power in James‘ hands was just as dangerous as power in Jacob’s hands.That night, as Alexander was moving about in the room without doubt all over his face, I made a decision. If James threw us into his game, I would quietly rewrite the rules.I patiently waited until we were all alone. Alexander was sweating, holding his hands tightly to the window frame as he looked out that night. He didn't even notice at all that I was already closer to him until I touched his arm.“I think you’re right about him,” I whispered. “James isn’t telling us everything we need to know. But if we play this right, we can make his plan work for us.Alexander turned towards me, his face was shadowed
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Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTY NINEAlexander's POVTrust became much more dangerous than money. Basically, in my world, giving it to the wrong person could cost not just my life, but Natalie’s too. That was the thought burning in my mind when James sat across from me, his eyes cold, his jaw tense.He leaned forward, then lowers his voice as if the walls had ears.“There’s one way to end this,” he said. “We break into Jacob’s vault.”I studied him carefully , looking for cracks in his calm. “Vault?”James nodded. “His central vault. Not just money. Records. Contracts. Names. Everything that Jacob has built up his empire on is there. If we find it, we’ll have the leverage to be able to tear him down.The words weigh. Too heavy. Jacob’s vault was not just a safe hidden in a house, it was the foundation of his power. If it existed the way James described, then I'm very certain that it would be a place that Jacob would defend more than his own life.And James wanted us to walk into it.I leaned back, crossing my arms. “You
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Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTY EIGHT Natalie's POVThe night was heavier than usual, like the air bore secrets that I should not have known. Alexander had gone out , his face was tight and shadowed, and he refused to reveal to me where he was going. I released him, but the silence he left me with really consumed me.It was not Jacob that haunted me anymore; it was my father.Ever since I found his name in Jacob’s files, the thoughts had been swirling, refusing to accept what evidence suggested. My father, who is a gentle, warm man who had once carried me upon his shoulders, was tied to Jacob’s empire.But how deep did it go?That question had kept me in the study all night long, surrounded by piles of old files James had led us to. Every paper, every contract, every dog-eared receipt was a piece of a puzzle slowly breaking me.My fingers were trembling while sifting through the thin folder bearing my dad's name. I had opened it once before but never really looked. I forced myself to tonight.It was fairly harmless at fir
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Chapter: CHAPTER EIGHTY SEVEN (Alexander's POV)The message arrived at dawn.I was in the study, looking at papers that no longer held significance to my weary eyes, when my phone buzzed with one encrypted message. It was not from Natalie, nor from James, nor from one of my guards.It was from one of my old allies, someone who owed me a favour.I opened the message. One line stared back at me:"Jacob has already given a kill order. Assassins are already on the move."My chest tightened. I reread it hoping it was some mistake but deep down, I already knew it wasn't.Jacob no longer played games.This wasn’t about ruining my name anymore. This was about ending me.I hastened upstairs. Natalie was still asleep, breathing calmly. I was standing there for a moment, looking at her, truth crushing me. I was tempted to wake her up and make her hear everything, but I couldn't.The less that she understood at this point, the safer she would be.I kissed her forehead and whispered softly, "Stay safe." Then I left the room.B
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