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Elle pensait que ce n’était qu’un jeu. Un pari stupide, lancé entre amis : séduire l’homme que toutes les femmes redoutent… et qui ne s’attache jamais. Froid. Intouchable. Dangereux. Personne ne gagne contre lui. On Mais elle accepte. Au début, tout est simple. Sourires, regards, manipulation… Elle joue, elle avance, elle contrôle. Jusqu’au moment où il commence à répondre. Jusqu’au moment où il la regarde autrement. Et surtout… jusqu’au moment où elle comprend qu’il sait. Ce n’est plus un jeu. C’est un piège. Et cette fois, ce n’est pas elle qui mène la danse. Entre désir, manipulation et sentiments interdits, elle devra choisir : gagner le pari… ou se perdre pour lui.

Sienna Carter, une journaliste ambitieuse, vient tout juste d’être promue au poste de rédactrice en chef dans un prestigieux magazine. Pourtant, alors qu’elle s’apprête à célébrer ce nouveau tournant dans sa vie, un événement choc bouleverse tout. Elle surprend son fiancé dans leur lit conjugal, en train de la trahir avec sa meilleure amie. Face à cette double trahison et à l’humiliation qui s’ensuit, Sienna décide de rompre définitivement avec lui. Mais les blessures émotionnelles ne s’effacent pas si facilement. Alors qu’elle tente de se reconstruire, un homme mystérieux entre dans sa vie : Raphaël De Luca, un homme charmant et envoûtant qu’elle rencontre par un étrange hasard. Il semble être le remède idéal à sa douleur : attentionné, séduisant, et elle se sent de plus en plus attirée par lui. Pourtant, ce qu’elle ignore encore, c’est que derrière son sourire envoûtant et ses yeux perçants, Raphaël cache une vérité bien plus sombre. En réalité, Raphaël De Luca est à la tête d’un empire criminel, chef de la mafia et figure dominante du monde souterrain. Alors que Sienna croit avoir trouvé un échappatoire à sa peine, elle découvre peu à peu que cette rencontre n’était pas un simple coup du destin, mais plutôt le début d’une descente dans un univers où trahisons et dangers sont omniprésents. Déchirée entre son attirance pour Raphaël et la réalité de son identité, Sienna doit choisir : peut-elle continuer à se perdre dans ses bras ou doit-elle fuir cet homme dangereux, qui pourrait bien être la dernière erreur de sa vie ? Mais il est peut-être déjà trop tard : la mafia a ses propres règles, et Raphaël, en tant que chef, n’est pas prêt à la laisser partir aussi facilement.

Avery Nash had two lives and one rule. Keep them completely separate. By day she was the captain of the Crestwood University cheer squad and a Business Management student holding onto her scholarship by her fingernails. By night she was Scarlett, masked and wigged and untouchable, dancing at Velvet Underground to cover the gap between what her scholarship paid and what her mother's deadbeat boyfriend kept taking from them. On the night her boyfriend cheated on her with her biggest rival, Avery made one reckless decision. She followed a brooding stranger back to his motel room and gave him the one thing she had been saving. Her virginity. "Take off the mask. I want to see you." He had said. "A little mystery never hurt anyone, did it?" she replied. She slipped out before dawn, telling herself she would never see him again. Then she rang her best friend, Jade's doorbell and he answered the door. Liam Harrington was Jade's new stepbrother, who she hated, the transfer quarterback every girl on campus was already talking about, and the boy sitting three seats away from her in every Business Management lecture. He was also the only person in the world who knew what Avery felt like without her armour on. He just did not know her real face. Now Avery was living three lives at once. The captain, the stripper, and the girl quietly falling for the one man she was absolutely forbidden to want. And the secret that started as one reckless birthday night was growing into something big enough to burn everything she had built.

Les gens murmurent que le roi Alpha Maximus est une créature démoniaque d'une taille titanesque et d'une brutalité sans nom, marquée par une malédiction effroyable. Partager son lit équivaut à signer son arrêt de mort, car aucune femme n'en est jamais ressortie vivante. Alors pourquoi m'a-t-il choisie ? L'Oméga grassouillette dont personne ne veut. Celle que sa propre meute a jetée comme un vulgaire déchet. Cette nuit avec ce Roi impitoyable devait m'être fatale. Au lieu de cela, elle m'a bouleversée à jamais. Maintenant, je ne pense qu'à cet être qui prend ce qu'il désire sans la moindre compassion. Ses caresses me consument. Sa voix me subjugue. Son corps me dévaste. Et je reviens sans cesse en redemander plus. Pourtant, Maximus ignore l'amour. Il ne veut pas de compagne. Il conquiert. Il possède. Et il ne reste jamais. Tant pis pour lui... Je ne suis plus cette pauvre fille pitoyable qu'ils ont abandonnée. Je suis bien plus redoutable : l'unique femme capable de briser sa malédiction... ou de faire s'écrouler son royaume.

Elena a découvert la trahison de son mari. Celui-ci l'a trompée ouvertement, sans aucune retenue. Mais Elena n'est pas une femme à se laisser abattre. Elle a fait condamner la maîtresse à la prison, récupéré les parts et les biens qui lui reviennent, puis a demandé le divorce sans regrets. Elle pensait ne plus jamais croire en l'amour, ni vouloir refaire sa vie avec quelqu'un. Mais la vie lui réserve une surprise bien plus belle que ses rêves : depuis son divorce, elle rayonne comme jamais. Héritiers influents, chirurgien puissant, homme mystérieux, camarade brillant, star internationale, tous sont irrésistiblement attirés par elle. Certains la regardent en silence depuis des années, d'autres s'imposent avec autorité, tandis que certains ne cessent de la séduire. Tous se prosternent devant elle, tous lui déclarent leur amour. Mais cette fois, c'est elle qui choisit, c'est elle qui décide.

My husband planned to sell my body to a stranger so that he could have a perfect reason to divorce me. When I heard his phone conversation, I didn’t wait for him to catch me, I hit the loudest club in town at once. Then something I didn’t expect happened. I slept with his forbidden best friend, a man who hated my guts like crazy yet he claimed me like I was his soulmate. His jaws tightened as he whispered “He didn’t deserve you. You were supposed to be mine.”

~"Why is the best fruit always forbidden?"~ Alecander Blackford is that perfect Alpha blessed with the face of an angel but cursed with overbearing parents who would not stop tailing after his ass. After he runs away from the pack to stay at his aunt’s house, he did not expect that he would meet his mate who turned out to be more than he had expected and everything he was not. Soft, caring with a touch of defensive instincts, Elristeya Larsen is just that girl who has two parents that were in love since forever and a brother who would do anything to make her frustrated. When she meets her brother’s new best friend, it turned out to be the Asshole that had slammed the door in her face, Alec. She was undeniably captivated by his hypnotic orbs and the way he looked like everything a human was not. Like a different breed. Alec’s entire plan to stay away from her as far as he could begins to fall flat right before his own eyes. No matter how he tried to ignore her, like a moth to a flame he was attracted to her. When circumstances fell into place, they slowly began to get closer, creating more connection and strengthening the bond between them. Elristeya soon realized that Alec was no prince charming of hers but her beautiful downfall. Her perfect nemesis. Her flawless damnation. Theirs was the mate bond that was never supposed to be formed. Forbidden right from their births and when they try to fight against the fate that binds them, ugly and haunting secrets, capable of ruining them both and those they cherished, from the past are unleashed, threatening the soul bond they shared.

As an entrepreneur, Ashley West has spent most of her time focusing on business, but she decided to take a break from work and go on a vacation to explore and have fun. What happens when she had a one night stand with a stranger who turned out to be her father's best friend and business partner.  Caught between loyalty to her father and a desire she can no longer deny, Ashley faces a dangerous game of forbidden attraction. As emotions flare and boundaries blur, she must decide. Will she follow her heart and risk losing her father's trust or give up on her feelings for peace to reign?

“Shh, little girl,” he growled, teeth catching my bottom lip. I fought the moan, but he circled my clit, my hips jerked helplessly against his hand. Then he pushed my panties aside and sank two thick fingers inside me. I soaked his palm, knees buckling as tremors wracked me. “That’s it, cum for me,” he whispered against my ear. I did. Waves crashed through me while he held me up, stroking gently, murmuring filthy praise that made it sweeter, deeper, more shattering than anything I’d ever felt with a woman. I’m a lesbian. I’ve always known it, claimed it shamelessly. I’ve mapped women’s bodies with my mouth, hands, loving every touch and gasp. My best friend’s tongue between my legs has made me come countless times. The only man I tried, my ex, was awkward, unsatisfying. I swore off them forever. I love women. I love my best friend. So why does this man, her father, the one I should never want make me wetter with one stroke than she ever has? Why am I aching for his cock, pushed inside me, thrusting relentlessly, filling me, ruining me in ways no woman could? Why does bending over his desk for him feel like the right thing to do? One forbidden touch. One devastating truth: I might never want another woman again. When I rejected the vice chancellor's advances, my best friend's obsessive aunt, she threatened expulsion. My friend took me to her father, the college owner. One look at his body and I was lost. That night in their home, hiding in the kitchen while watching him cook, I touched myself, craving what is forbidden. Will my best friend discover my sudden addiction to her father? Will her aunt ever stop wanting me?

I had fallen in love with my father’s friend—the man I was supposed to call “uncle,” Kael Viremont. For a while, I thought he loved me too. We even had this silly little promise—that if I turned twenty-seven and still want to be with him, then we could be together, publicly. Five days before my twenty-seventh birthday, I overheard him saying he’d never liked me. That he was going to marry his childhood sweetheart. And as if that wasn’t cruel enough, he was planning to use the wedding to cut me off for good. So I did the one thing I should’ve done a long time ago—accepted that he and I would never belong to the same world… and disappeared from his life for good.