Always Home

She watched her boyfriend drop to one knee, not for her, but for another woman. Humiliated. Betrayed. Disowned by her own mother. Krystalina is left with nothing, no dignity, no home, not even a single penny to her name. Just when she thinks life cannot be cruel, London’s richest and most ruthless lawyer offers her a lifeline. A marriage contract. A surrogacy agreement. Strict rules : No emotions. No sexual intimacy. No attachment with the baby. But rules are meant to be broken.The moment passion blurs the lines, secrets begin to unravel and the truth behind his cold proposal threatens to destroy them both. Can a relationship born out of betrayal survive their love? * “You’ve been a very bad girl, Mrs Ashton. Always disobeying me.” His thumb brushed over my lower lip, possessive, stealing my breath. “I don’t want my baby to be ill-mannered, like you” he said calmly. Tears welled in my eyes at his audacity. “Then you should terminate the contract.”

I'd been home for half a month, but I still couldn't shake the feeling that Mom wasn't quite herself anymore. She looked and sounded like she always had, but something felt different. Then, one day, I got a message from her that sent a chill down my spine. "Lily, hide! There's a ghost in the house!" At first, I thought she was pulling a prank on me—or maybe her account got hacked. Then, there was a knock on my bedroom door. Mom, who had just finished cooking, called out to tell me the meal was ready. I was still hesitating when another message popped up. It was a voice message. "Trust me, Lily. I'm your real mom! The one out there is a ghost! Run!" It sounded just like Mom's voice from outside. My mind was racing in panic. Not hearing me respond, Mom giggled from the other side of the door and said, "I'm coming in."

Elijiah Kris Bach, a CEO of the Bach Group of Companies, owning chains of hospitals and pharmacies, manufacturing the most trusted medicines and ruling the world of pharmaceutics and the field of medicine, has always been able to let her empire stand alone until she was pestered by the board to agree for marriage of convenience and produce an heir to secure the company's future especially now that her Lolo, the last living owner of the Bachs, is not getting any younger and is suffering from heart complications. After she went home to the Philippines after for almost 12 years, unexpected events with the oddest people she met welcomed her. Everything was too overwhelming especially those hazel eyes owned by a cardiothoracic surgeon in one of her hospitals that are so familiar to her – eyes that can make her feel a mixture of euphoria and a pang of pain. "I'm confident I could heal people's hearts. Including yours," He said but could he really? Could he really heal her cold and broken heart?

Claudia had always enjoyed being in the company of Thorsten, her childhood crush. However, Claudia's parents informed her that Thorsten was not her mate and that the Moon Goddess had fated her to marry a man she had never met. She met her fated mate, Alpha Everett, a wolf from a neighboring kingdom, at a moonball celebration. Claudia was offended when she saw her supposed mate having sex right in front of her on their first meeting, and she vowed she would never marry him. After many warnings from the moon goddess, Claudia is compelled to let go of Thorsten. She ended up in Alpha Everett's packhouse, where she was treated as a slave by her mate and his Beta Concubine, Annette. Is Everett ever going to see her as his true mate? What will Claudia do when she develops feelings for one of Everett's most trusted pack members? Will she give in to her desire right in Everett's home?

I grew up calling him Uncle. My father’s best friend. The man who built an empire, a billionaire everyone feared in business… but who always softened around me. Now I’m no longer a little girl. And when I return home, his eyes linger too long, his voice dips too low, and his touch makes me burn in ways that should never happen. He promised my father he’d protect me. But the way he looks at me now? Protection is the last thing on his mind. I know he’s dangerous. Older. Forbidden. But every time we’re alone, the walls close in and the line we can’t cross begins to blur. If my father ever finds out, it will destroy everything. But what if I don’t care anymore? Because when a billionaire this powerful decides he wants you… How long can you resist before you’re his?

Sierra ran away from home, because she was betrothed to Nathan, unknowingly to her. She fell in love with Bran. They had a good thing going and Sierra wasn’t ready to let that go easily so she ran away from home, taking Bran along with her; who apparently she was pregnant for. Her parents will go to the ends of the earth to find her; they will do anything to bring their daughter home to fulfil her duties to herself and her pack.

Aurora Stanley was an Omega by birth. However, on her 18th birthday, she found out that she was mated to the cruel Xander Roland. Aurora hated Xander because he was a playboy and was also in a relationship with her nemesis, her father's favorite daughter. Aurora rejected Xander, but he rejected her rejection. Instead, he brought his girlfriend home and slept with her in Aurora's face, ensuring that she felt the pain. Aurora wanted to leave the pack and escape, but Xander caught her. Chained, she was abused and insulted by the pack members. However, during the full moon festival, a rival pack Alpha arrived and picked on Aurora. Seeing this, Xander refused to let Aurora go. He was ready to go to war to keep his mate. Xander regretted his actions, and he had to make up for the past. But will Aurora forgive him and take him back? Will she keep his babies, or abort them like she always does? A dark-themed story. Find out.

I was Don Alexander's most skilled assassin and Consigliere, and also his secret wife. But for five years of our secret marriage, he never allowed our son to call him Dad. He always said that the enemy families were constantly watching our family, and that I and our son were his only weakness, so this was to protect us. I believed him, and silently helped him manage all the family affairs, until his first love, Bella, returned with a five-year-old boy. He booked out the entire Disneyland for them to play all day. That day was my son's birthday, and he stubbornly waited for his father to come home, holding a melting cake. I completely lost hope and made a phone call: "Help me cancel my and Leo's identities and erase all our information." But when my son and I truly disappeared, the powerful Don went mad, searching the entire world for traces of us...

“Is this what you wanted?” He sneers, eyes cold and unforgiving. It was as if I was looking into the eyes of a stranger. He looks down on me due to his tall stature. “To be the ‘pathetic’ whiny burden you have always been?” I flinch at his words. No, this cannot be, this cannot be happening. This is not my Nate, my Nathaniel. I struggle to maintain my composure. My breath came in shallow, ragged gasps, each one a painful reminder of the betrayal that had brought me to this breaking point.  ********* At just five years old, she was abducted and replaced to protect her family’s reputation, as it would have been scandalous for her influential father to have a kidnapped child. Returning home, she felt like a stranger in a place where her parents had long forgotten their love for her. Nate her husband, was her knight in shining armor… or so she thought. Betrayed and left to die by the people she trusted. What happens when life gives her and her unborn child a second chance?

Gabriella was born a half blood to parents only too dissapointed and disgusted to have her as a child. They sought for any possible means to be rid of her because they considered her useless. She is eventually mated to their Alpha, Marcel . Gabriella hopes that following the union, her life will be better now and she will finally get the acceptance and love she has always craved, but she was infact a mere tool and sacrifice for Marcel. On the day of their wedding, Marcel's pack (The Dark Moon Pack) is raided and burnt to the ground, while Gabriella is captured and taken away to Cordena, the home of the most powerful Alpha in the North, Tyler. Tyler is on a mission to find his mate and kill his rival, Shaiza in order to ensure the prophecy of his death and end of his pack isn't fulfilled. Marcel works for Shaiza and his pack is one of the undercovers for Shaiza's evil deeds. After Tyler kills Marcel, he makes Gabriella his captive and swears to make her suffer. Tyler and Gabriella started off as sworn enemies filled with hate for each other, Gabriella because she believed Tyler had taken her away from her only home and Tyler because she was once the mate of his rival. However during the continuous search for his mate, Tyler discovers that Marcel was so eager to marry Gabriella because then he would be able to sacrifice her under a full moon and gain some of his powers. But then he would only be able to grow powerful if he sacrifices Tyler's mate........ Tyler finds his object of hate and disgust is to be protected at all cost because she is his mate and the key to the prophecy that's meant to destroy him.