Arise Peachy Xxx

After the war between humans and shifters, an alliance was formed to keep the peace. The price? Daughters of the human nobility had to choose a shifter as their mate. The first half-blood born from this union would become the new ruler, ensuring that peace would last. As the eldest daughter of the Morrison family, I was the first to be chosen. But right after I chose the wolf Alpha, Calvin, I saw a vision on our engagement day. Because I failed to conceive after six months, Calvin locked me in a cage, determined to use me as a vessel for his pure bloodline. After I finally gave birth to the prophesied hybrid, my sister, Trina, appeared, claiming she wanted to take care of me. But the truth was, she hated me for being able to bear the perfect bloodline, while her own mate, that beautiful Elven Chief, was making her life a living hell. Driven by jealousy, she seduced Calvin, and together, they had me brutally murdered. After my death, the world saw Trina as the new hope, as the one destined to bear the future ruler. Only one person fought for me: Caleb, the leader of the bear clan. He was the only one who demanded justice. A sharp pain lanced through my chest, and I snapped out of the vision. Before me, Trina begged me to give Calvin to her, revealing he had already marked her. I nodded. To everyone's shock, I walked past them all, my eyes fixed on the one person no one ever seemed to notice: Caleb, sitting in the corner. "Caleb Thorne, will you accept my proposal?"

Grandpa died, and we immediately went for each other's throats over the inheritance. Then a blizzard hit, trapping us all in the family estate. An app appeared on our phones: [THE LAST ZOMBIE: FINAL RECKONING]. We had to pick a hiding spot. The last one standing—the last human standing—would inherit everything. I chose the dark, silent recording studio in the basement. Away from them all. When it was time to pick special powers, my family chose powerful weapons or pocket dimensions full of supplies. I chose Bio-Stasis. It slowed my cells to a crawl, and my body along with them. My stepbrother's fiancée, Chloe, called me an idiot. "Hiding from your family and picking a useless power? You're on a suicide mission." They threw a zombie-slaying party upstairs, already celebrating an inheritance they hadn't even won. Until, one by one, they turned. And started tearing each other apart. What they didn't know... was that I'd rigged the game from the start. The only way to win was to stay completely silent.

I carried my fated mate’s pup. Alpha Seth’s pup. But for twelve years, he refused to claim me. I was his secret. His personal healer. Nothing more. He never even let our son, Leo, call him “Dad.” All because he hated that fate chose an “impure” mate like me. He claimed I drugged him, that I trapped him with a child. He ditched our son's First Howl for another woman. A powerful Beta named Sarah. That was the last straw. I rejected him. I took our son and ran. They say the proud Alpha lost his mind. That the pain of rejection tore him apart, and he hunted us like a madman. But there’s no going back. There is no forgiveness.

I've been mated to Alpha Damon for five years. I helped him build a business empire, but he kept delaying our marking ceremony 99 times. Right before the ceremony was supposed to happen, he told me the pack’s resources were tight. He demanded I stop the expansion of the Alpha’s manor and scrapped the nursery I’d designed for our future pups. Then he turned around and bought a thirty-million-dollar penthouse for Isabella, a new omega in our pack. When Isabella and I were in a car crash at the same time, he didn't even glance my way. He ran straight to her. He wrapped her in his Alpha scent, holding her tight. Their scents mingling was like a knife to my heart. In the pack council hall, in front of all the Elders, I looked at him with ice in my eyes. "I, Elena, reject you, Damon, as my mate." Through the gut-wrenching pain of the mate bond snapping, I sent a message to the Alpha of another pack. "I rejected him. I'll be at your Crescent Moon Pack tomorrow."

My mother sent me to Chicago to marry Marco Ricci. A power move. One meant to cement our family’s control of the city. After all, my grandfather was the one who put the Riccis on the map. They owed us. They were supposed to treat me like royalty. I went to the fanciest jeweler in Chicago to buy my fiancé a gift. But some broad snatched it right from me. Before I could move, the store manager was fawning all over her. “Miss Bianca! A gift from Mr. Ricci? It’s perfect on you!” Marco? My fiancé? So this was his whore. She slid the sapphire ring onto her finger and shot me a look of disgust. “Who the hell do you think you are, bitch? Trying to take what’s mine?” I didn't even look at her. I just called Marco. "Your whore has something of mine. You have three minutes. Get down to the jeweler and handle her."

I was just a student who couldn't afford tuition. For five years, I was also the secret lover of Mafia Don Dante Costello. Publicly, I was his personal art restorer. In private, he spent his nights making me his, holding me close and kissing me breathless. Then his family arranged his engagement. To Isabella Rossi. A princess from a rival family. At their engagement party, Isabella stabbed the back of my hand with a shard of broken glass. He made me apologize. To her. For making a scene. Fighting back tears, I bowed my head to Isabella. When Isabella lost a bet and had to play Russian Roulette—one bullet, six chambers—he made me take her place. My hand shook as I raised the gun to my head. "You saved my life once," I told him. "Now you can have it back." The moment I vanished from his world, the ruthless Mafia Don who had everything under control...completely lost his mind.

My best friend Chloe and I married into the mob. We married two brothers. I married the monster, Don Adriano. She married his wild younger brother, Lorenzo. It was an arranged marriage. I expected nothing. His heart belonged to his childhood sweetheart, Isabella. Then my father died. My autistic brother, Leo, became my world. I signed over my family’s entire shipping empire to Adriano. He held me that night. Kissed the tears from my eyes. He swore he’d protect us forever. I believed him. That was my mistake. Three days ago, a rival family hit us. They left Leo bleeding out in my arms. I got him to our private hospital. It was empty. Not a single doctor on duty. I called Adriano, screaming for help. He had sent every last doctor to Isabella’s villa. "A storm's coming. Isabella is terrified of thunder. The stress could trigger her heart condition. I can't risk it. Your brother has a scratch. Patch him up. I’ll deal with it tomorrow." He hung up. While Isabella slept safely in his arms, I lost my brother. I cried all night, holding Leo's cold body. When I woke up, I told Chloe I wanted a divorce. She held me, sobbing. She said she was leaving Lorenzo, too. The Moretti brothers didn't know a thing until they were both served divorce papers. Then they went insane.

Tenía cuatro meses de embarazo del heredero del Alfa cuando mi mejor amiga, Ariana, se estrelló contra mí. Dijo que fue un accidente. Pero su supuesto accidente me hizo perder a mi cachorro. Mi hermano, Liam, intentó delatarla ante los sabios de la manada, pero lo acusaron injustamente de traición, le quitaron su título de Beta y lo encerraron en los calabozos. Corrí a suplicarle ayuda a mi pareja, el Alfa Byron. Me abrazó con fuerza y juró que salvaría a Liam. Al día siguiente, encontré a Liam en los calabozos, encadenado con plata, apenas con vida. Devastada, volví a buscar a Byron, intentando encontrar una manera de demostrar la inocencia de Liam. Fue entonces cuando lo escuché hablar con su mano derecha. —Si su Luna se entera de que usted permitió que le tendieran una trampa a Liam... lo va a odiar. La voz de Byron sonaba agotada y con un dolor que intentaba ocultar. —Sé cómo es. Era la única forma de que perdonara a Ariana en la Ceremonia de la Luna de Sangre. Ariana me salvó la vida. No voy a permitir que esto la destruya. Hizo una pausa y su voz se tornó seria. —En cuanto a Sandra... ya veré cómo compensarla. Nunca sabrá la verdad. Jamás. Por ahora, solo tiene que... obedecer. Mi pareja, en quien confié ciegamente... Destruyó a mi familia. Todo para proteger a la loba que mató a nuestro cachorro. El dolor me desgarró el alma. Temblando de una furia que jamás había sentido, llamé al único con el que no había hablado en siete años: mi padre, el Alfa Caden. “Padre, acepto la alianza estratégica. El matrimonio que mencionaste. Pero tengo una condición. Quiero que destruyas a la Manada Blackwood.”

After I married Riccardo, the Don of the Moretti family, he paraded a string of mistresses in front of me. He never gave me a second glance. But on our tenth anniversary—right after my father’s death—he suddenly promised me half of his empire. The catch? In return, he planned to seize control of all my family’s arms-dealing routes. That pissed off his favorite mistress. She cornered him on his yacht, demanding he take his words back. Then she fell overboard and died. An “accident.” After she died, Riccardo went insane. He took it all out on me. He tied me to the back of his yacht. He dragged me through the sea, a human anchor, until the rocks shattered my legs, crippling me for life. I became the family’s shame. Then, as I lay helpless, he finished the job with poison. Then I opened my eyes. I was back on the day Angelo Marino—the head of our rival family—proposed to me. In my last life, my family forced me to say no. He came for me, a one-man army. He killed Riccardo, but died in the process. This time, I looked at his kind face and nodded. Yes. But as we embraced, Riccardo appeared. He ripped me from Angelo's arms and claimed me as his own. That’s when I realized the cruelest joke of all. My monster was back, too.

"คนคนนั้นชื่อมะลิ" "ฉันไม่ได้อยากรู้" "มะลิเกิดวันที่ยี่สิบเก้ากุมภาและปีเดียวกับพี่" เขาคิดจะทำอะไร จะจับผิดงั้นเหรอ "ประเทศนี้มีคนหกสิบล้านคน นายรู้หรือเปล่าว่าในหนึ่งวัน มีเด็กเกิดวันเดียวกันกี่คน" "..." "เรื่องบังเอิญอะไรแบบนี้มันเกิดขึ้นได้อยู่แล้วไม่ใช่เหรอ" "..." "ฉันจะกลับบ้าน" ฉันพูดพลางจะก้าวขาเดินต่อเหมือนไม่สนใจอะไร "แต่มะลิมีปาน..." "..." "เหมือนที่พี่มี" ฉันชะงักและครั้งนี้รู้สึกได้เลยว่าหัวใจฉันไหววูบไปมากแค่ไหน ฉันเม้มปากเข้าหากันอย่างตึงเครียดและรู้สึกกดดันมากขึ้น ฉันคงไม่ถามหรอกว่าเขาเห็นปานของฉันได้ยังไง ถ้าพูดมาขนาดนี้ก็คงจะเป็นคืนนั้นที่บ้านเขา... ฉันแค่ไม่คิดว่าเขาจะได้เห็นมัน ไม่คิดจริงๆ! "ปานดำรูปคล้ายขนนกที่กลางหลังตำแหน่งเดียวกับพี่" "..." "ผมก็อยากรู้เหมือนกัน ว่าในหกสิบล้าน มันจะบังเอิญมีคนที่มีอะไรตรงกันไปหมดแบบนี้กี่คน" "แล้วยังไง!"