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A single job can make or ruin you. What will you do? Warning: 40% sex, 100% sin. This isn't sweet little love story. This is dark, filthy Mafia territory, where rules don’t exist, and neither does mercy. For mature minds only. Themes include: Ruthless dominance Dubious consent & brutal obsession Public sex, eyes watching Best friend betrayal Power games that leave you wet and wrecked If you came for flowers and happy endings, check it out. And if you're ready to get fucked against the wall by a Mafia king who’ll make you scream his name loud enough for his enemies to hear .... then sit down, keep your mouth open, and behave. Because once you enter his world, you don't walk out untouched. ***** “Here. Sign this and you can start immediately. If you have anything important at home, bring it here....I’ll provide you with everything. "Clothes, food, whatever you need,” he said, the smirk returning to his face. She reached for the file hesitantly, her eyes narrowing slightly. Something felt…off. Too quick. Too intense. Just as she was about to flip through the pages, her phone rang. Tring… Tring… She glanced at Liam. He nodded. “It’s okay.” She quickly signed the last page without reading. Inside, her instincts itched. Something didn’t sit right. But she brushed the feeling off. Maybe he was just one of those flirty, arrogant bosses. “You signed without reading it,” he said in a whisper only she could hear. “Bold.” “I trust Liam,” she replied. Vincenzo smiled, not the kind that made people feel safe. She handed the file back and turned to leave. Vincenzo stood silently, watching her go. The way her hair swayed. The curve of her waist. That innocent look in her eyes. As she disappeared around the corner.

*She was banished to die. He saved her to possess her. Now three kings want to claim her… and the secret she carries could shatter kingdoms.* Elysia Belrose has spent her entire life as nothing—scentless, powerless, invisible. The night her mother dies, she drowns her grief in the arms of a brutal stranger who makes her feel wanted for one perfect moment… before shattering her: *“Don’t get the wrong idea. This didn’t mean anything.”* Two years later, she finally finds hope when Killian, the Alpha’s son, claims her as his mate. She tells herself she can earn his love. She’s wrong. When she discovers him in bed with the Alpha King’s daughter, her rejection provokes his rage. Beaten bloody and accused of seduction, Elysia is banished to the Wildlands for 100 days—a death sentence wrapped in mercy. But the man who saves her is the same stranger from that night. The one who broke her. Rhaegar Draven. The Alpha King. He doesn’t want her. He doesn’t believe in second chances. But when she begs for 99 days of protection, he agrees to one condition: she stays silent, obedient, and out of his way. Except Elysia is hiding something that pulses beneath her skin, growing stronger with each passing moon. A forbidden bloodline. A secret pregnancy. And a truth that makes her the most dangerous woman alive. Three men are hunting her—one who wants to reclaim her, one who wants to breed her, and one who’s trying to convince himself he doesn’t want to burn the world down to keep her. But Rhaegar’s wolf knows what he refuses to admit: she’s his. His mate. His queen. His salvation and his ruin. In 99 moons, everything will change.

Minha melhor amiga, Gabriela Nunes, que insiste no celibato, pegou o esperma que eu tinha escolhido para mim quando me acompanhava na clínica de fertilização. Naquele momento, eu soube que ela também tinha renascido. Na vida passada, eu quis ter um bebê de etnia mista, então fiz fertilização in vitro. Gabriela na época me ridicularizou por estar criando um filho de um estrangeiro, e disse que eu era uma idiota completa. Mal eu sabia que, meio mês depois, eu seria levada para a família real de Nabiro. Acontece que o esperma que eu tinha escolhido era de um príncipe de Nabiro, com oito origens étnicas. Ele não só queria me fazer sua princesa, como também prometeu que nosso filho herdaria o trono. Eu e o bebê fomos valorizados por toda a família real, e as joias no meu corpo quase me esmagavam. Em contraste, Gabriela ofendeu parceiros de trabalho por se autoproclamar uma feminista extrema, foi demitida da empresa e expulsa da indústria. No 100º dia do meu filho, ela usou todas as suas economias para comprar uma passagem de avião para me procurar. Mas, quando eu fui recebê-la, ela jogou meu filho no chão, matando-o, e jogou ácido sulfúrico concentrado em mim. — Por que você tem tanta sorte? Você não merece, sua vadia! Quando abri os olhos novamente, eu voltei ao dia em que Gabriela me acompanhou à clínica de fertilização...

Adele has been married for 10 years, being a full-time, dutiful wife and mother who sacrified her life and career for her family. But in return, their 7-year- old son, Ethan, suddenly began to despise her. “You make me sick, I wish Aunt Julia was my mother. I'm embarrassed to call you my mother, bitch!” Ethan barked. Adele was humiliated, shamed, and dragged by the public and Julia, who stole her design, yet her husband, Ryan, bowed to them and apologized. “I'm sorry, my wife has been stressed lately. Being a full-time housewife, she has no idea what the world is like. Please don't hold her accountable for this.” He turned to Julia, “Can you forgive her for crashing your daughter's birthday? I'm sure she didn't mean to. I agree, she's mentally unstable.” Adele was left reeling from heartbreak after heartbreak. She had never imagined that one day both her husband and son would choose someone else over her. Tired of trying to mend a broken relationship, she calmly finalized the divorce and even gave up custody of her son, but would Ryan let her enjoy freedom and peace, just like that? Adele soon found out that divorcing a prominent CEO who has so much power and influence than she was made aware, was no joke. God on her side, she got into a marriage contract with a bigger monster. But this monster and his 7-year-old daughter worshipped the ground she walked on. Adele rose from ashes: a net worth of over a 100 billion, one of the most influential women in the country, and a happy wife and stepmother. And now, her ex-husband and son wants her back and would do anything! But come on, the ship has sailed! However, it seems there are secrets to unravel...

Mexique. Angela de la Vega, une jeune journaliste bien décidée à faire éclater le scandale des meurtres de Juarez, reçoit un e-mail énigmatique, signé Ö, qui la lance sur la piste du Chirurgien, le plus redoutable des tueurs en série de la région. Pérou. Noa Stevenson, grand-reporter de guerre traumatisé par la violence, découvre au fin fond des Andes, un message géant gravé dans une falaise qu'aucune technologie humaine n'a pu réaliser. Cité du Vatican. Un ordre spécial d'ecclésiastiques de très haut rang, s'inquiète d'une augmentation subite des apparitions angéliques dans le monde, car cela pourrait contrecarrer leurs noirs desseins. Etats-Unis. Le Réseau Advent Watcher, unité spéciale de la NSA s'occupant de traquer les messages à connotation ésotérique, analyse avec effarement une série d'e-mails signé Ö, envoyée à tous les internautes de la planète suivant une méthodologie humainement impossible. Après Titan, thriller au suspense haletant sur le thème des armes climatiques, Frédéric Zumbiehl nous entraine cette fois à la poursuite du plus énigmatique des lanceurs d'alerte, le très mystérieux Ö. Mais qui est-il ? Un Ange, comme certaines sources bien informées le pensent ? Ou un démon, comme d'autres le redoutent ? Initiatique et mystérieux, ésotérique et percutant, spirituel mais emprunt de vérités dérangeantes, Ö est un roman dont vous ne sortirez pas indemne. AUTEUR Frédéric Zumbiehl est un ancien pilote de chasse reconverti dans l'écriture depuis une quinzaine d'années. Scénariste prolifique du 9e art, il est l'auteur d'une quarantaine d'Album dont Team Rafale, Tanguy et Laverdure, Buck Danny, avec plus d'un million d'albums vendus. Il est également écrivain.

私は一途な「サブヒーロー」を五年間攻略してきた。 彼と共に困難を乗り越え、ついに彼はテクノロジー企業の新鋭へと這い上がった。 
 進捗バーが100％に達したその時――ヒロインが突然帰国した。 鈍感な夫は花束を手に、正装でヒロインを出迎える。 
 「俺の家は、いつでも君を歓迎するよ」 可愛がってきた息子もヒロインの手を握り、嫌悪の表情で私を見つめる。 
 「ママなんか、寧々（ねね）お姉ちゃんの足元にも及ばないよ」 エプロンを着け、フライ返しを手にしている私は、ふと全てが虚しくなった。 
 システムの警告を無視し、離婚届をぽんと置き、家を去った。 その後、夫と息子は揃って跪き、涙を流しながら私の帰りを乞うのだった――

婚約者の藤原蓮（ふじわら れん）には、18年間も大切にしている女の子・藤原光希（ふじわら みつき）がいた。 私たちの婚約を知った途端、光希は私にちょっかいを出すようになった。 彼女は庭のバラを引っこ抜いて菜の花に植え替えたり、新居のオートロックの暗証番号を勝手に自分の誕生日に変えたりした。 でも、私はいつも笑って許してあげていた。 だって、蓮がいつもこう言っていたから。 「光希はまだ若い。君に俺の愛情を全部取られちゃうんじゃないかって、不安なだけなんだよ」 そして、月日は流れて、光希は大人になった。 彼女のせいで、蓮は私たちの結婚式を100回もドタキャンした。しかも、その理由はいつも信じられないようなものばかりだった。 1回目は、光希とディズニーランドの花火を見に行かなくちゃいけないって。 33回目は、光希とS国へ海を見に行く約束をしたからって。 そして99回目。バージンロードを歩き始めたまさにその時、病院から電話がかかってきた。光希が急性盲腸炎で倒れた、と。 …… ついに、100回目。光希がポップアップストアに行きたいと言い出して結婚式をすっぽかしたせいで、蓮はまたしても式を延期した。 彼は去る際に、本当に申し訳なさそうな顔でこう言った。 「次は、次は絶対に光希に時間通りに来るように言い聞かせるから。だから、怒らないでくれ」 私は静かに微笑むだけで、何も答えなかった。 もう次はない。100回目の結婚式は、これでおしまい。 蓮との関係も、もうこれ以上続ける意味なんてない。

【おめでとうございます。攻略対象との結婚の倦怠期を、完璧に乗り越えました】 【今回の報酬は、『タイムリープ』です】 【プレイヤーさんおよび攻略対象は、記憶を保持したまま過去に戻り、再び恋をやり直すことができます】 陽気なシステム音声が流れる中――律の心は、少しも晴れなかった。 彼女は呆然と、誠司の頭上に浮かぶ「好感度ゲージ」を見つめていた。 そこには、変わらず「100％」の数字が表示されていた。 ――この人の愛は、偽物じゃない。 でも、どうしても理解できなかった。 こんなに彼女を愛しているはずの人が、どうして彼女に隠れて、他の女との間に子どもを作ったのか。 しかも――もう四歳だ。 四年間、ずっと黙っていた。 しかもその男の子は、彼女のことを「おばちゃん」って呼んでいたのに。

From my earliest memories, my entire family is cold and distant toward me. When my parents look at my younger sister, Claire Lloyd, their eyes fill with warmth and joy. Yet, when they turn to me, only disgust remains. Claire's life is filled with applause and excessive love, while mine is filled with disdain and suffering. When the explosion erupts at the street corner, I save the stranger beside me. Later, I learn he is Byron Whitmore, a mafia family's Don. He begins pursuing me after I rescue him. Later, I quit my job and move to a new place, but he finds me and proposes in 100 different ways. "Why me?" I ask countless times. "Because it's you," he always answers. The wedding causes a sensation throughout the city. I truly seem to have transformed from an ugly duckling into a swan. That is, until I'm five months pregnant, when Claire needs a transfusion of rare Rh-negative blood after a car accident. The blood bank has a shortage. Because of that, my parents knock me unconscious and send me to the hospital. In my daze, the blood extraction machine hums continuously. As two thousand milliliters of blood leave my body, I see Byron. Tears well up in my eyes. I begin thinking he's here to save me. Instead, I hear him say, "We can't take any more. Sharon and the baby will die." "But Claire has lost too much blood. She'll die, too..." My mother pleads. "No one wants Claire safe more than I do." Byron's voice is thick with pain. "She's my first love. I've never forgotten her. I only married Sharon because her face looks so much like Claire's. "But I can't trade her life for Claire's. Trust me—I'll find another way." So, that's his reason for marrying me. The blood extraction machine continues running, but my heart has already stopped beating. The affection I see in his eyes has never been for me. He's always looking through me at someone else. Everyone in the world loves Claire, and Byron is not the exception that I foolishly believe him to be. That grand wedding is nothing but an ugly duckling's self-deceiving fantasy.

夫と一緒に山登りに出かけた時、私が摘んだ野生の果実を食べた夫が中毒で亡くなった。 家に戻ると、一組の母子が訪ねてきた。夫が彼女たちに家と車を渡しただけでなく、多額の借金までしていることを教えてくれた。 そして、私は自分の貯金も含め、全てを彼女たちに渡した。 さらに、病気の義母を介護するため、毎日早朝から深夜まで三つのバイトを掛け持ちし、食事もご飯一杯だけで済ませる日々が続いた。 長年の過労で私は病で倒れたが、義母は医師に治療をやめるよう告げた。 死の淵にいる私の前に、夫とあの母子は現れ、100円貨を投げてきながら言った。 「母さんの世話を長い間ありがとう」 その瞬間、夫が死んだのは全て嘘で、初恋の相手と私生児と過ごすための策略だったことを知った。 幸運なことに、私は生まれ変わり、夫と一緒に山登りに行ったあの日に戻っていた。