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❓ “What happens when the boy who lost everything becomes the target of desire… and danger?” 💔 “You think you’re worth anything without me?” 💔 “You’re nothing but a burden I regret keeping alive.” Arden was born an heir with love. But the night his parents died, his uncle stole everything—his wealth, his freedom, his dignity. Until one night, everything changed. His uncle planned to sell him to a wealthy old man. Arden ran. In his desperate escape, he saved the wrong man at the right time— Not the mafia himself… but the mafia’s best friend. That one mistake dragged him into a world of blood and shadows, which he was never meant to be. The mafia took him as punishment, thinking he was an enemy… But what started as hate quickly turned into dangerous obsession. Now Arden is caught in a lethal love triangle: 🔥 The mafia’s best friend, who loves him and will protect him at any cost. 🔥 The mafia, ruthless and possessive, who will stop at nothing to claim him. Both men want him and neither will let go. And in the shadows, a video threatens to ruin him if it ever surfaces. Will the boy who lost everything rise again?…💔💔 But only if the Heir of Pain survives the game.

“Take off your dress, Meadow.” “Why?” “Because your ex is watching,” he said, leaning back into his seat. “And I want him to see what he lost.” ••••*••••*••••* Meadow Russell was supposed to get married to the love of her life in Vegas. Instead, she walked in on her twin sister riding her fiance. One drink at the bar turned to ten. One drunken mistake turned into reality. And one stranger’s offer turned into a contract that she signed with shaking hands and a diamond ring. Alaric Ashford is the devil in a tailored Tom Ford suit. Billionaire CEO, brutal, possessive. A man born into an empire of blood and steel. He also suffers from a neurological condition—he can’t feel. Not objects, not pain, not even human touch. Until Meadow touches him, and he feels everything. And now he owns her. On paper and in his bed. She wants him to ruin her. Take what no one else could have. He wants control, obedience… revenge. But what starts as a transaction slowly turns into something Meadow never saw coming. Obsession, secrets that were never meant to surface, and a pain from the past that threatens to break everything. Alaric doesn’t share what’s his. Not his company. Not his wife. And definitely not his vengeance.

“Take them off yourself, or I will do it for you.” Ten sessions. Two hundred thousand dollars. Her brother’s life for her body. Dr. Avery St. Clair signed a contract in blood. To save her family, she has to fix the mind of Obsidian City’s most feared monster, Dominic Kessler. He’s a Mafia Don rotting from the inside out. A bullet gave him C-PTSD and a touch so sensitive he can’t stand being touched. Avery is the only antidote who can calm him down. So he locked her in his villa. But Dominic is playing a game he’s already lost. He doesn’t know Avery is the woman from seven years ago. The stranger who saved him on that dark gambling ship and disappeared before sunrise. He doesn’t know the scar on his wrist is burned into her memory. And most of all, he doesn’t know the autistic little girl hiding in her clinic is his own daughter. While Avery hides the truth behind her professional mask, their little girl feels his every nightmare. Every flashback. Every crack in his monster mask. When the secrets finally come out, his empire will fall. He’ll lose his sight. His throne. The only woman who ever made him feel human. To win her back, he’ll have to destroy the monster he became. And help her burn down the man who murdered her parents. She won’t make it easy. This is not a love story. It’s a monster learning to beg. Why read this? Obsessive Mafia Hero Secret Baby with an Autistic and Gifted Daughter Identity Reveal “Touch Her And You Die” Energy Massive Groveling and Revenge A Heroine Who Fights Back No Cheating. Happy Ending Guaranteed.

Edwin Reed did what he had to do to survive selling his body to pay his mother’s medical bills and keep his younger sister safe. When his mother dies, Edwin walks away from that life for good, determined to start over. One last mistake changes everything. The man from his past turns out to be Daniel Ashcroft the billionaire CEO of the company where Edwin has just landed a life-changing internship. In the boardroom, Daniel is cold and untouchable. Behind closed doors, the connection between them is dangerous, secret, and impossible to ignore. As buried secrets resurface and enemies from Daniel's past close in, Edwin discovers he may have been pulled into a corporate war far bigger than either of them. Trust shatters. Loyalties are tested. And love becomes the most dangerous risk of all. Because when power, sacrifice, and desire collide, someone always pays the price.

To the world, Elena was a penniless orphan who struck gold by marrying the "Titan of Tech," Julian Vane. For three years, she endured his coldness, his mistress’s taunts, and the label of "trash" housewives. But when Julian tosses the divorce papers at her to marry a socialite, he triggers the end of Elena’s "Poverty Trial." The woman he discarded doesn't exist. In her place stands the sole heiress to the Everett Global Syndicate—a shadow empire that owns the very ground Julian walks on. As Julian watches his world burn, Elena isn't just seeking a divorce; she’s seeking a total liquidation. But as a new, more dangerous King enters the board, Elena realizes her revenge was only the opening move in a much deadlier game.

When broke med student Zaria Monroe signs up for a lucrative "wellness trial" run by a secretive elite biotech firm, she never expects to be selected by billionaire vampire heir Lucien Draeger as his life-bonded donor. Bound by a dark contract, Zaria must submit to Lucien’s needs—physical, emotional and otherwise—while he fends off rogue immortals and prepares to lead an ancient vampire syndicate on the brink of civil war. But as their fates intertwine, Zaria realizes her blood may be the key to a power long thought extinct and that the price of survival may be her soul.