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Mommy, I Didn't Run Away: The Unwanted Child *A Chilling Psychological Horror, Domestic Thriller, and Soul-Crushing Emotional Nightmare* *“You should be happy you are even alive. We gave your mother all kinds of herbs. We tried everything, but you refused to leave.”* Juliet has spent her entire life carrying a terrifying truth: she was a mistake her mother tried to erase before she was even born. Growing up as the ultimate household scapegoat, she endured years of cruel emotional abuse, constant rejection, and being treated like a permanent burden while her mother favored everyone else. She was forced into endless domestic chores as a child, isolated from love, and later reduced to a mere financial lifeline—expected to fund her mother’s gold, shop goods, and social status while receiving nothing in return but cold neglect. Now, thousands of miles away in Europe, Juliet lives in a clean, quiet house where everything works. To the outside world, she has made it. Inside, she is completely hollow. Driven to the edge, Juliet props up her phone camera to record a final, harrowing video confession for the woman who birthed her. What starts as an agonizing unravelling of childhood trauma quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. As she bares her soul to the lens, facing the dark shadows whispering from the corners of the room, Juliet unlocks a chilling realization about the family she left behind, the true price of survival, and the terrifying entities that followed her across the sea. Heart-shattering, deep, and deeply unsettling, *Mommy, I Didn't Run Away: The Unwanted Child* is a psychological nightmare about a daughter fighting to be seen and the terrifying lengths one must go to when home was never a safe place.

Cattleya Vermont is a priest’s daughter and medical prodigy—trained to understand life, and secretly trained to end it. At night, she becomes the Church’s most feared executioner, sent after things that shouldn’t exist. Then she meets Rusty Vesper. A reclusive quintillionaire aristocrat who is always where he shouldn’t be, always calm in situations that should break a man, and always one step away from every truth she’s chasing. People around him disappear from records. Investigations collapse. And the closer Cattleya gets, the more reality begins to feel wrong. She should walk away. Instead, she doesn’t. Because something about Rustyfeels like an answer she was never meant to find. And in a city where faith, medicine, and monsters overlap in silence… some truths only reveal themselves when it’s already too late to turn back.

I am in a serious relationship with Charles. We are in the same class. We love each other completely. One ordinary afternoon we walk into my house and discover my mother and his father in bed. Before either of us can speak, his mother appears in the doorway. She sees everything. She begins to cry, then she jumps from the stairs. My mother and his father run away together. Charles buries his mother and turns every piece of his grief into hatred aimed at me. The school decides I am the reason two families are destroyed. They call me bastard. They call me homewrecker. They come to my house, take what they want, and destroy the rest. Charles writes the word on my door and on my desk. Stephanie, who always wanted him, is now his girlfriend. She pretends to be my friend while she helps keep the wound open. I cry every night. I ask the same questions over and over: What did I do wrong? Why is this my fault? I have no father. I never tried to take Charles’s father. I only loved the boy who is now trying to erase me. This is not a story that happened years ago. This is happening now, and the pain is constant.

He’s dangerous, intoxicating… and I’m addicted. Every touch sets me on fire, every whisper drags me closer to the edge I shouldn’t cross. I should run—but I can’t. Because in his darkness, I’ve found a craving I can’t resist, a passion that devours me whole. Some love destroys. Some love consumes. And some men… are worth surrendering everything for.

One night of passion with billionaire Adrian Voss was supposed to be a mistake Lydia Hart could outrun. Now, she is pregnant with an heir to a bloodline that is more monster than man. Trapped in a Gothic estate, Lydia discovers her entire life was a clinical experiment designed to prepare her for this moment. As the cold corporate walls close in, she must decide if Adrian is her jailer or her only shield against his predatory father. In the shadows, a lethal fixer and a street-smart survivor find a dangerous loyalty that could break the Voss empire forever.

A small-town, slow burn romance between Ray Carter, a sharp-tongued gas station owner, and Mason Hale, a rugged construction foreman who's returned after years away. Childhood friends turned almost- lovers, they must rebuild both trust and their town while navigating betrayal, passion, and redemption.

I don't help people, Lara. I own them." Five years ago, Lara’s life was incinerated. Her "deadbeat" father betrayed her, her mother was drugged and vanished into a psychiatric ward, and the mother’s vast bloodline inheritance was stolen by a predatory stepmother. Now, on her twenty-fifth birthday—the day her mother promised her "the beginning" Lara finds her fiancé in the arms of her stepsister. The betrayal is the final straw. The girl who believed in love is dead. In her place stands a woman with a heart of ice and a single goal: Total Annihilation. To get her revenge, Lara approaches the one man the world fears Xavier Vane. He is a cold-blooded billionaire who treats people like pawns. Lara offers herself as his ultimate tool, whispering the words that will seal her fate: "Yes, Use Me." Xavier knows she’s using him to destroy her family. Lara knows he’s using her to satisfy a dark family legacy. But as the lines between predator and prey begin to blur, a deeper secret emerges. The diamond heirloom Lara seeks isn't just jewelry it’s the key to an empire that dwarfs even the Vane fortune. In a game of masks, hidden mothers, and lethal obsession, who is truly using whom? "Break me if you must, Xavier. Just make sure that when you’re done, there’s nothing left of them but ash.

After catching her fiancé in the ultimate betrayal, Willa flees into the night, only to be struck by a car and transported into "The Fullest"—a lethal, multi-dimensional survival game. The rules are simple: Survive the hazards, complete the "intimacy trials" with your assigned partner, and win a second chance at life. But Willa’s partner is Jaxson Vane, the man who destroyed her family years ago. From the fog-drenched corridors of Dracula’s Castle to the high-stakes glitz of a billionaire’s dystopian playground, Willa must choose: give in to the raw, erotic pull of the man she hates, or die in the game. In this world, pleasure is the only weapon, and Willa is finally going to live her life—and her desires—to the fullest.

MATURE CONTENT — 18+ ONLY Chloe thought marriage meant love, loyalty, and forever.Three years later, she is still waiting for her husband, William, to treat her like a wife. Their marriage is nothing but an empty shell. William avoids intimacy, barely acknowledges her, and leaves Chloe constantly wondering if she is the problem. Then, one doctor's appointment changes everything. The handsome gynaecologist who examines her awakens feelings she has spent years burying. But the next morning, Chloe discovers a shocking truth. Her mysterious doctor is Richard Thomson—the newly appointed CEO of her company. And he happens to be her husband's closest friend. Richard has wanted Chloe since the first time he saw her, but he buried his feelings because she belonged to William. Now, she works directly beneath him, and keeping their attraction professional becomes nearly impossible. Every stolen glance and private encounter pulls Chloe deeper into a forbidden world she never expected to enter. Then, she discovers her husband's devastating secret. William isn't simply neglecting her. He's been secretly involved with Rachel—Chloe's own sister. Heartbroken, Chloe finally realizes that she was never the problem. She simply gave her love to the wrong man. Richard wants to show her what it means to be desired, cherished, and truly loved. But their forbidden attraction could cost them their careers, families, friendships, and reputations. Will Chloe remain trapped in the marriage that destroyed her—or risk everything for the man who has always wanted her? And this is only the beginning. If you love forbidden romance, powerful CEOs, betrayal, intense chemistry, and mature love stories, stay tuned for several more addictive stories just like this one!

Just imagine… You’re eighteen, innocent, and hopelessly devoted to the boy you thought would be your forever. You trusted him with every part of yourself. Loved him enough to ignore the strange late-night disappearances, the secrets, the distance growing between you. Until the night you followed him into a luxury hotel suite… and your entire world shattered. Because you weren’t walking in on another girl. You were walking in on your boyfriend wrapped around Julian Voss — the infamous billionaire every magazine in the country worshipped. And Julian Voss was drunk enough not to remember a thing. The next morning, he wakes up beside you instead. He looks into your eyes and believes you were the one in his bed. The one he touched. The one he wanted. Not Cal. You should tell him the truth. You should walk away. And suddenly revenge tastes sweeter than heartbreak.

Sloane "The Black Rose" Volkov is the most efficient cleaner for the New York Syndicate—until she is ordered to eliminate Julian Vane, a high-level fixer who knows too much. But Julian isn't a stranger; he’s the man who saved her life ten years ago before disappearing. When the hit goes wrong, they are forced into a lethal "fake marriage" to stay alive, hiding in plain sight within the very lion’s den that wants them dead. As the line between their ruse and their reality blurs, Sloane must decide if her loyalty belongs to the family that raised her or the man who is teaching her how to feel again. In a world of silver bullets and silk sheets, the only thing more dangerous than their enemies is their desire.

When Olivia Brooks gets her father's $15,000 chemotherapy bill, she has only two choices: watch him die, or sell herself. By day she's a bank clerk. By night, a waitress. Poverty never leaves her side. At a club, she meets Victoria Hale — the woman who owns 1.3 Trillion Dollars. Victoria offers her a "deal": *"Marry my son, Ethan Hale, for 6 months. He's sick. Give him a reason to live."* In return: *$10 Million + Free treatment for her father.* Olivia says yes. The Hale Mansion. The billionaire life. Everything. But that same night, she gets a call: *"Ethan is being poisoned. He'll be dead in 6 months. And all his property will go to Victoria."* Now Olivia has 2 choices: Run away and let her father die... Or save the "sick husband" she doesn't even know. *It started as a contract. Now it's a war

Serena Vale needs money, not secrets. Desperate to help her family, she accepts a live-in job at Blackwood Estate, a mansion owned by Lucien Blackwood, a man who knows things he should not. The job comes with rules. Never enter the west wing. Never wander the halls after midnight. And if you hear someone calling your name from an empty room, do not answer. Serena breaks the rules on her third night. A piano begins playing behind a locked door. A woman’s voice whispers her name. Then she discovers a photograph of herself as a girl inside Blackwood Estate. The problem? Serena has never been there. At least, that is what she remembers. Lucien knows otherwise. He knows her mother. He knows about the night Serena disappeared seventeen years ago. And worst of all, he remembers things about Serena that she has no memory of ever telling him. The more Serena investigates, the stranger the truth becomes. Her mother’s disappearance is connected to Lucien’s dead father. The forbidden west wing holds evidence of her childhood. Someone has been manipulating her memories. And the mysterious voice haunting the mansion seems determined to bring her back to a promise she made as a child. But Lucien is hiding something too. He tells Serena not to trust him. She should. Instead, she finds herself dangerously drawn to the one man who may know exactly what happened to her, and may be the only person capable of protecting her. As desire collides with suspicion, Serena must decide how much of her past to uncover. What if she never escaped Blackwood Estate in the first place? And what if Lucien isn't the devil hiding in her bedroom? What if he is the only thing keeping the real one away?

SYNOPSIS : At Blackthorne, everyone knows the rules…Know your place, don't offend the wrong person and whatever you do….do not dare challenge Zane Calloway. Amelia Carter accidentally breaks the last one. When she steps into a crowd gathered around Zane and tells him to let another student go, the entire hallway goes quiet. Zane looks at her as if she has just handed him a new game. By the next morning, Amelia's face is on everyone's phones…The scholarship student who works alongside her mother at their laundry business is suddenly Laundry Girl, and Blackthorne's wealthy students have found a new source of entertainment. Serena Calloway makes sure Amelia learns exactly what happens when someone crosses her circle. With her scholarship hanging over her head, Amelia has no choice but to endure it. She can handle the whispers, the humiliation and even Serena's threats. What she can't handle is…Zane. He keeps showing up everywhere. He provokes her, pushes her limits, and finds every excuse to keep her within reach. Zane's attention becomes harder to escape with every passing day. He starts treating Amelia's life like something he has a say in….Who gets near her, who gets to hurt her, who gets to take her attention. He protects her from everyone else, then reminds her exactly who she should really be afraid of. Amelia soon learns that being hated can be survived…but being wanted by Zane Calloway is another story.

Two years ago, my father sold me to a billionaire. Delson Ford owns me. My body. My time. My silence. He fucks me like I'm furniture and calls it marriage. The only thing he doesn't control is my work. In the ER, I'm a doctor. Not a wife or a victim. Then Elijah Roosevelt comes in bleeding. He's a mob boss. He's my husband's greatest enemy. And he has a condition that makes pain feel like pleasure. He refuses anesthetic. He watches me stitch his wounds with a smile. And when he gets hard on my table, I can't look away. Now he's requested me as his personal doctor. Now he's in my space. In my head. He says I'm his to protect. He says my husband won't touch me ever again. But Elijah Roosevelt doesn't protect anything without owning it first. And I'm starting to want him too.

You wanted a war, Liliana. But behind closed doors, you play by my rules." ​Four years ago, Liliana Bridget gave her heart to Kendrick Lockett, sealing their teenage love with a secret silver locket and a desperate, rain-slicked kiss before his family was exiled to Australia. But before his plane even touched down, her world was shattered. A leaked video proved the brutal truth: to Kendrick, she was nothing but a "placeholder bet" to secure a multi-billion dollar shipping merger. ​Now, Lily is the untouchable "Ice Queen" of Seattle's elite, hiding a devastating secret—her family’s empire is bleeding dry, targeted by a ruthless shadow syndicate. To unmask the conspiracy, she must travel to Sydney and step straight into the lion's den. ​But Kendrick is no longer the protective boy she loved in the rain. ​At twenty, he is the fiercely dominant, cold-hearted CEO of Lockett Global. Believing Lily was the one who betrayed his family years ago, he has spent every waking hour planning his revenge. ​When Lily is forced to beg for his help, Kendrick delivers a ruthless, predatory ultimatum: a mandatory, forced-proximity merger. He wants her in his skyscrapers, on his private mega-yacht, and bound to his side. ​As they clash in a high-stakes game of corporate espionage, their hatred burns into a dark, suffocating passion. Behind closed doors, the cold masks they wear slip away, exposing a raw, obsessive desire that neither of them can control. But with a shadow syndicate closing in and secrets from the past unraveling, they must face a devastating truth: ​Was their hatred born of a lie, or will their toxic hunger destroy them both?

⚠️ 18+ STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ⚠️ **Content Warning** This book is a **steamy, no-holds-barred collection of erotic fiction** intended strictly for **adult readers (18+ only)**. It contains highly explicit sexual content, graphic descriptions of sex acts, strong language, and intense erotic scenarios. **Welcome to the Collection** Welcome, darling reader, to a deliciously wicked world where desire reigns supreme and inhibitions are left at the door. Between these pages you’ll find a hand-picked **smut collection** overflowing with scorching-hot stories designed to set your pulse racing and your imagination on fire. Every tale is crafted to deliver maximum heat,whether you crave slow, sensual seduction that builds until you’re aching, or frantic, breathless encounters that leave everyone involved thoroughly ruined (in the best possible way). Lose yourself in forbidden office trysts, moonlit werewolf pack bonds, possessive mafia lovers who claim every inch of their partner, shy bookworms discovering their wild side under expert hands, and polyamorous nights where pleasure is multiplied. You’ll meet alphas who growl filthy promises, brats who love to be tamed, and couples (or throuples, or more) who explore every delicious taboo they can imagine. These stories celebrate *unapologetic pleasure*, dripping chemistry, and characters who surrender completely to their hungers. Expect soaked sheets, trembling thighs, desperate moans, and climaxes that leave everyone seeing stars. The spice level is dialed up to “melt your kindle,” with zero fade-to-black and plenty of lingering, explicit detail. So get comfortable. Dim the lights. Maybe keep a cold drink (and a spare pair of panties) nearby. Whether you’re here for a quick, pulse-pounding one-shot or planning to binge the entire collection in one heated sitting, you’re in for a decadent treat. Welcome to the smut. Enjoy every filthy, glorious word. Now turn the page… and let the pleasure begin.

The Price of Vulnerability follows the journey of Mr. Wells, a charismatic yet emotionally unavailable man who has built a wall around his heart after a painful past. As the successful CEO of a leading tech company, he hides behind his stoic demeanor and seductive allure, unwilling to let anyone get too close. Enter Naomi, a driven and intelligent woman who crosses paths with Wells during a high-stakes interview. Confident in her abilities yet struggling with her own hidden desires, Naomi finds herself inexplicably drawn to Wells. Despite his cold exterior and unwillingness to commit, there’s something about him that sparks a longing for more—a desire for trust, love, and a connection that goes beyond surface-level attraction. As Naomi navigates her new role as Wells’ secretary, she discovers the fragile layers of his heart. Slowly, she begins to unravel the mystery of the man behind the business mogul persona. But in the process, Naomi finds herself confronting her own vulnerability, torn between the power of her ambition and the intense pull of her feelings for Wells. In The Price of Vulnerability, trust, love, and desire collide as two people with guarded hearts risk it all to face the pain of their pasts and the possibility of a future together. Will Naomi break through Wells’ emotional walls, or will the price of opening up be too great?

When Lila Hart’s father dies during a hospital clinical trial, she’s told it was a tragic complication. But the records don’t match. After breaking into the hospital archive, Lila discovers her father signed a withdrawal form days before his death — yet someone altered the date. And the man whose signature is on the file? Lucien Cole. Billionaire CEO. Untouchable. Dangerous. As leaked documents ignite a media storm, Lucien claims he approved the withdrawal — and that someone forged the records to frame him. If he’s lying, he destroyed her family. If he’s telling the truth, someone more powerful is hiding in the shadows. Now Lila must decide: Expose the man she hates… Or trust the only person who might survive the war that’s coming.

The champagne was flat, much like the expression on Julian’s face. "It’s not that I don’t love you, Elara," he said, adjusting his $5,000 suit jacket. "It’s just that you’ve become... predictable. I need a woman who challenges the world, not someone who waits for me to come home and tell her what color the sky is." Elara felt the sting of the words more than the cold wind on the balcony. For six years, she had been Julian’s shadow. She had curated his life, managed his moods, and dimmed her own light so he could shine brighter. And now, on the night of his company’s gala, he was discarding her like an outdated software update. "Predictable?" she whispered, her voice cracking. "Go home, Elara. I’ve already had your things moved to the guest house. We can talk about a settlement in the morning." She didn't wait for the morning. She didn't wait for the "settlement." She walked out into the rain, her silk dress clinging to her skin like a second, cold layer of grief. It wasn't until three days later, sitting in a dingy motel with nothing but a suitcase and a bruised soul, that the notification popped up on her phone. ARE YOU READY TO LIVE FOR YOURSELF? ENTER THE SURVIVAL GAME. WIN YOUR FREEDOM. Elara stared at the golden icon on the screen. It felt like a trap. Or maybe, it was the only way out.