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Clara Sterling is twenty-seven, polished, and on the move. After being wrongly blamed for a student’s breakdown at her previous school in Boston, she accepts a mid-semester teaching position at Blackwood, a prestigious private academy known for its reputation and the secrets. She hopes for a fresh start. Instead, she encounters Gabriel Vane. At nineteen, Gabriel is sharp and carries an unexpressed grief. He is the student who resists management and demands attention. After losing a year to his father’s death, he returns to Blackwood feeling incomplete but more unpredictable. When Clara steps into Room 14 on her first day and meets his intellectual challenge, something inside him stirs for the first time in a long while. What starts as a battle of wits over a poetry anthology evolves into a connection neither can put into words or control. Gabriel hacks into her private file, and instead of reporting it, Clara replies to his note. The distinction between teacher and student blurs gradually until one rainy Tuesday afternoon in a locked classroom, it vanishes completely. Yet Blackwood is keeping an eye on them. Someone has reported their interactions to the headmistress. Even worse, someone removed pages from Clara’s file before her arrival, indicating that she didn’t get the job despite her scandal in Boston. She was chosen because of it. As their relationship deepens and threats converge, both Clara and Gabriel must confront the same question: what does it cost to want something you were never meant to have? The Lesson Plan is a dark, slow-burning forbidden romance about desire, grief, and the precarious space between authority and intimacy.

TWO PINK LINES, ONE NIGHT STAND --- Beth Williams knew the rules at Knight Tower: clean, stay invisible, never look the billionaire in the eye. She broke them all at the masquerade gala. One spilled drink on CEO Adrian Knight became a $50,000 dance. One dance became one elevator. One night in a masked stranger’s arms became two pink lines six weeks later. Now Beth is fired, homeless, and pregnant with Adrian’s baby. He doesn’t remember her face from that night, but he remembers the scandal: a cleaner accused of corporate espionage. When she tells him the truth, Adrian voids his engagement to shipping heiress Valeria D’Souza and moves Beth into his penthouse that night. There are no phones. No unlocked doors. No escape. Adrian calls it “protection.” Beth calls it a gilded cage. He’s haunted by his mother’s death in childbirth and believes control keeps people alive. His heir will not grow up poor, endangered, or unloved, even if he has to become a monster to guarantee it. But Valeria brings a knife to Beth’s throat. The board demands a paternity test. And when Beth bleeds at 14 weeks, Adrian flies them to a private island with no way out. Trapped together, Beth learns Adrian kept her hairpin from that night. He never forgot her. She was his first choice in ten years, not a mistake. When premature labor, CPS, and his own trauma collide, Adrian must decide what he fears more: losing control, or losing her. Because Knights don’t lose what’s theirs. The question is whether Beth will choose to be his.

「大学を辞めたくないなら、俺の手の中に落ちてこい」 　幼い頃から私を見知っていたと言う９歳年上の男が、ある日突然そんな言葉と共に私の生活を一変させた。 ―― 　母の入院費用捻出のため、せっかく入った大学を中退するしかない、と思っていた村陰 花々里（むらかげ かがり）のもとへ、母のことをよく知っているという御神本 頼綱（みきもと よりつな）が現れて言った。 「大学を辞めたくないなら、俺の手の中に落ちてこい。助けてやる」 　なんでも彼は、母が昔勤めていた産婦人科の跡取り息子だという。 　学費の援助などの代わりに、彼が出してきた条件は――。 クスッと笑えるラブコメ（全32章） （改稿版 2020/08/14〜2021/08/19）

"I, Alexandra Madden, reject you, Sebesian Will, as my mate." "How dare you? You can't do this to me Alexandra, we are fated pair." Alexandra turns to face her ex-best friend, who happens to be her Alpha. He is the same person who leave her and allow other bully her year's ago. "I don't care." *********** Being born as a human sucks. Getting bullied just because you are human among wolves is worse. This is what happened to Alexandra. The one who used to love and adore her now hates her and let others bully her. Simply because she is not present? This all started when she turned 14; the first person to mock her was her own best friend, and everyone else in her group took the alpha side and left her. But things change on her graduation day, when she presents as an Omega, not only Omega but a powerful White Wolf. ******* Sebestian Will hates humans; they are the ones who killed his parents when he was just 5; they took away his butterfly; and when his best friend Alexandra wasn't present, he cut all the ties to her and let the others bully her during high school. When they enter the university things change, Sebestian makes girlfriend, and he seems happy. He would never look at Alexandra, but Alexandra doesn't care because she knows their friendship ended during high school. But things change on their final graduation day, the Full Blood Moon day, when Alexandra is present infront of everyone. ************ "She is present as an pure white Omega." "She is so beautiful." "You are my mate, Alexandra." "I am your nothing, Sebestian, I am rejecting you." "You are our Princess Alexandra, please come back home." "I will fight for you, Alexandra; I will fight for us, my beautiful butterfly."

「先生、志望校を横町大学に変えたいんです」中村花音（なかむらかのん）は受話器を握りしめ、きっぱりとした声で言った。 受話器の向こうから担任の声が聞こえてきた。「花音、その件はもう斉藤先生と相談したの？」 花音は一瞬たじろぎ、唇を噛むと、うそをついた。「はい、相談しました」 電話を切ると、花音はパソコンで志望校変更の手続きを完了させた。 担任の言う斉藤先生は、花音にとって特別な人だった。 中学と高校で数学を教えてくれた先生であり、苦しい生活から救ってくれた恩人でもある。 花音は田舎の小さな村で育った。14歳のとき、大学を卒業したばかりの斉藤拓真（さいとうたくま）と出会った。

Un multimilliardaire qui ne croit pas en l'amour et un garçon pauvre et timide qui n'a jamais connu l'amour. Ça promet une romance hors du commun. Plongez dans l’histoire d’amour hors du commun de Juan-Pablo et d’Adrien et découvrez un amour pur et rempli de passion entre un homme et un garçon… Juan Pablo Alcazar est le PDG et héritier du groupe Alcazar Média, une entreprise audiovisuelle créée par son défunt père. Homme de 28 ans, grand, beau et imposant, il est marié avec Rébecca, un mannequin dont il n'est pas amoureux. Il dit ne pas croire en l'amour et n'a pas le temps à lui consacrer. Adrian est un jeune homme de 20 ans, mais qui paraît beaucoup plus jeune que son âge. Il est orphelin et a grandi dans un centre où il s'est échappé à l'âge de 14 ans, car il se faisait harceler à cause de sa façon d'être un peu trop efféminé et enfantin. Mais aussi, parce qu'il préfère la danser plutôt que de jouer aux jeux des garçons. Il a été recueilli par un vieil homme nommé Don Philippe, qui l'a adopté comme son petit-fils. La douceur et les manières enfantines d’Adrian ne tarderont pas à gagner petit à petit le cœur de cet homme, qui était convaincu ne pas croire en l’amour et qui était loin d'imaginer que l'amour de sa vie, ce serait un garçon.