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His lashes fluttered and when his eyes met mine this time, the emotions they expressed before were extinct. “You’re my best friend’s daughter. You’re the girl I swore to protect and shield from those who would seek to harm or use you. I cannot do this now. Your father will not forgive me. I will not forgive myself.” “But you want me.” “What I want doesn’t fucking matter, Elle. I am not the type of man you should desire. I am bad and I’m only going to hurt you.” “Why don’t you let me make that decision myself?” “Because you’re too blinded by the silly feeling you have to see the truth. There can be nothing between us. Not now, not ever.” he said with the utmost certainty. . All Estelle Biggs ever wanted was Jace Henshaw II, and all he has ever wanted to do was protect her from everything that would harm her, including himself.

STUCK WITH MY DAD'S BEST FRIEND: REVENGE ON MY CHEATING EX-HUSBAND "I loved you with everything I had... yet you chose my own stepsister?" Vionne Wallace's voice trembled with heartbreak. Her husband's response was a cold laugh. "Sign the divorce papers. Nora is the woman I love. You couldn't even give me a child." In one devastating day, Vionne loses everything. Her husband chooses her stepsister. Her father disowns her. The family she sacrificed everything for casts her aside like she never mattered. Heartbroken and humiliated, Vionne drowns her pain in alcohol... and wakes up in the arms of a dangerously handsome billionaire after one reckless night she can barely remember. She never expects to see him again. Until he walks into her father's mansion. Powerful. Untouchable. The one man her father has never been able to control. His best friend. Darien Callahan. When the people who destroyed Vionne try to humiliate her once more, Darien does the unthinkable. He claims her as his. What begins as a partnership fueled by revenge soon becomes something far more dangerous. Beneath Darien's cold exterior is a man willing to protect Vionne at any cost, while beneath Vionne's broken heart is a woman determined to rise stronger than the people who betrayed her. But revenge has a price. As buried secrets come to light and old enemies strike back, Vionne discovers that the man she's falling for has been hiding a devastating truth of his own. Will their love survive the lies between them? Or will her cheating ex-husband realize too late that the woman he threw away has become the one he'll spend the rest of his life begging to get back? Sometimes karma doesn't knock. Sometimes... it marries your dad's best friend.

Nina Carter gave up everything good in her life to help her husband build his business empire. Now Daniel is successful and admired by everyone, while Nina fades into the background of the life she helped create with her sweat and blood. Then one humiliating night shows her the painful truth, she didn’t matter anymore. Hurt and overwhelmed, Nina makes a choice she never thought she would make in her lifetime. One reckless moment that would turn into a secret she could never erase. But every choice comes with its own consequence. When that secret suddenly returns to Nina’s life, everything she tried to hide begins to fall apart. Will that one mistake be the start of her downfall… Or the moment that finally changes her life forever?

My name is Clara Kelly. I was born in Brooklyn, into an Irish-American cop’s family. My father spent his whole career walking a beat out of the 84th Precinct. My mother volunteered at the parish. I was the first girl on our block to get into Columbia Law. The year I graduated, I was volunteering at a charity gala. I picked up the wrong glass of wine and ended up dumping it down the front of a man’s Brioni suit. That man was Adrian Francesco Moretti. Fourth-generation Don of the Moretti Family of New York, and one of the five families of Cosa Nostra. He chased me for four years. I said no six times. The seventh time, he stood outside my law firm in the rain until three-fifteen in the morning. I married him. Two decades in, he’d handed me the keys to the entire Moretti Family. In our world they called me “the Irish Donna,” a woman with no Italian blood who somehow held the seat. Childless by choice, the two of us. Famously in love. Until that Wednesday afternoon, when my college roommate of twenty years, my best friend Vivian Sinclair, walked into my living room with a five-year-old boy. She said the boy was Adrian’s son. She said that five years ago, she’d taken a used condom out of the wastebasket in my upstairs master bedroom, kept it frozen for three years, and done IVF. She said she was the real mother of the Moretti heir. She was the real Donna Moretti. “Be smart. Pack your bags and walk out. You might even get to keep your life.” “You’re barren. The Moretti Family doesn’t need you.” I looked at the woman I’d called my best friend for half my adult life. I didn’t say a word. She thought she was holding the winning card. What she didn’t know was that she’d just stepped onto a board Adrian and I had been laying for twenty years. I needed exactly one sentence to shatter every piece of the Donna fantasy she’d spent five years building.

"Dylennn," she whispered as his lips trailed down her neck. "Avelynne,I killed you once, little wolf…” he whispered. His voice was a growl, ancient and broken. “And the Moon cursed me to spend eternity watching the world rot until I could love you right. You are mine little wolf, and no one in the entire universe will stop me from claiming you” "NOT EVEN YOUR BETHROTHAL HUSBAND!". ************ Seven centuries ago, a Lycan lost control and slaughtered the only soul he was born to protect. Now she’s back and she's reborn as the daughter of an Alpha and betrothed to his greatest enemy. Evelyn has always felt watched. Dreams of glowing eyes and whispered vows haunt her nights, and the shadows around her home feel alive. But when she meets her cold father’s best friend, Lord Dylen Wolfe, her world fractures. His voice, his scent, his touch... they awaken memories she shouldn’t have, they ignite desires she shouldn't crave. He’s a monster from history. The lover from her past life. And the predator who’s waited three thousand years for her return. As her forgotten memories resurface, so do the lies, the curses, and the war that tore their worlds apart. Because this time, if she remembers the truth… Will she accept his love or will the beast who once killed her have to do it again?…

Emma Reed never expected temptation when she stayed over at her best friend’s house—but she got more than she bargained for. Luca Carter, her best friend’s dangerously attractive older brother, is reckless, charming, and untouchable—or so it seems. But Emma soon learns his playboy image is a carefully built shield, hiding a past heartbreak that left him wary of love. For Emma, desire is confusing. Friends have long whispered she might be lesbian. Even she has wondered if something is “wrong” with her, because men never stirred her in the way they stirred other girls. And yet, Luca awakens something deep and undeniable in her. As they give in to forbidden passion, secrets begin to unravel: Hannah, Emma's Best Friend, is Lesbian and she has been quietly in love with her for years. Mia, Emma’s roommate, secretly envies Emma and Hannah connection, and has her own feelings tangled in the mix. And Luca? He finds himself protecting Emma in ways he never intended, struggling to reconcile his longing with loyalty to his sister. Every stolen glance, every private touch, every whispered name becomes a dangerous game. Can Emma and Luca cross the line without destroying the bonds around them? Or will desire force truths into the open—and hearts into chaos?

The day after I got engaged to my boyfriend, his best friend locked me up. He smiled as he unbuttoned his shirt, stepping closer with each passing moment. "Mich, I'm your true destiny," he said, his voice low and menacing. As I struggled to resist, I lost my footing and tumbled down the stairs. When I woke up, all my memories were gone. The handsome stranger standing before me noticed my confusion and kindly offered an explanation. "You're my fiancée, but you cheated on me," he said.

When her fated mate chooses her best friend, Euphyllia Ivara Ruinart discovers a cruel truth that she has been reborn countless times, only to be betrayed in every life. In her despair, one forbidden night binds her to Lucretius Xior Franciosa, Alpha of the Golden Eclipse Pack, commander in the royal military, and her mate's own uncle and sworn enemy. From that night on, cryptic notes and a single chrysanthemum begin to appear, which she soon discovers are from him. It's his constant reminder that she is being watched, claimed, and marked as his. Then comes his offer: vengeance, in exchange for her body, her trust, and perhaps even her soul. A deal with the devil, which she accepts, swearing to destroy the mate who cast her aside and the friend who betrayed her. What starts as revenge becomes an entanglement with his darkness, where obsession devours love and ruin is the only end. But amidst the chaos of betrayal and desire, Euphyllia yearns to uncover the mystery of her past lives and discover who she truly is.

Charlotte Alonso abandoned her powerful birthright, rejected an arranged mate, and turned her back on the family that had planned her future—all for the man she loved, Alpha Noah Montgomery. She thought love would be enough. She was wrong. As Luna of the Montgomery Pack, Charlotte slowly becomes a stranger in her own marriage. Every important moment is shared with Noah's beautiful female best friend, Liliana. Every decision, every celebration, every late-night call somehow includes her. And every time Charlotte dares to question their relationship, she is accused of being jealous, insecure, and unreasonable. Until the night she catches them in a betrayal she can no longer forgive. Instead of begging for the love she deserves, Charlotte does the one thing Noah never expects—she leaves. She returns to the family she once abandoned and agrees to the arranged mating she ran from years ago. But the man waiting for her is no ordinary Alpha. Roman Blackthorn—the ruthless, feared Alpha whose name alone commands respect—never forgot the woman who rejected him. Years ago, as Charlotte fled from their arranged union, he made her a promise. *"One day, Coco… you'll return to me willingly."* Now she has. But winning Charlotte's heart won't be easy. She is broken by betrayal, haunted by the past, and determined never to trust another Alpha again. As Noah realizes too late what he has lost, he begins a relentless fight to reclaim his Luna. Caught between a husband desperate for redemption and a destined mate who has waited years to make her his, Charlotte must choose… Will she return to the man who shattered her heart, or embrace the Alpha who never stopped waiting for her?

For ten years, Autumn Lewis and Julian Carter were childhood sweethearts. After three years of marriage, all she got in return were injuries, neglect from her brothers, and betrayal from her husband. When Autumn found out she had stage-two stomach cancer, something in her finally let go. She picked herself up and rose from an unnoticed employee to a powerhouse in the tech world. As soon as the divorce cooling-off period ended, she tricked Julian into signing the papers and made a clean break. The next time they met, the ever-calculating Julian’s eyes turned red as he tore up the divorce certificate. “Autumn, I was wrong. We’re not getting divorced. If I could give you my stomach, I would—just please don’t leave me.” Her once-proud brothers now pleaded, “Autumn, forgive us. Your sister-in-law is filing for divorce. Could you spare us some money?” Just then, a man stepped out from behind her, lifted his shirt slightly, and sneered. “Autumn, why waste your time on these jerks? Look at me instead.” Indeed, affection that came too late was worth less than dirt. She didn’t care for it anymore.