Bookworm Haven

My husband had just ducked into the bathroom when his phone started ringing. I glanced at the screen and saw it was his brother calling. A frown creased my brow, but I answered anyway. "George, why haven't you sent the $10,000 to Mom and Dad this month?" Ross Serrano said. "Mom just asked me about it." I hung up without a word, but a rush of fury surged through me. My husband stood at the bathroom door, his hands still dripping wet. I forced a bitter smile. "You make $8,000 a month, right? $3,000 goes to the mortgage, $2,000 to me, and you pocket $1,000 for yourself. You told me you sent $2,000 to your parents, so how did that magically turn into $10,000?" His lips quivered, his face draining of color. My heart sank, and my hands trembled uncontrollably. We'd been married for five years, and I'd never once laid eyes on his bank card. What other secrets was he keeping from me?

“You fucking carry my name now, Bella. You're Mrs Bella Enzo Barine. You no more belong to Marino's.”, Enzo roared. “I'm not a piece of land or some property that you own, Enzo. I'm a human and I breathe. I'm married to you, not sold.” Bella spoke with tears in her eyes as the grip on her arm was getting harder which might leave a bruise later. I will not be dictated by a mandate to marry someone like Enzo De Luca, the sole heir of the Barone Clan. Despite his reputation for ruthlessness and his animosity towards the Marino’s, I refuse to be coerced into a marriage with a man I haven't seen in years. His grey eyes may have been my first love and my first heartbreak, but I will not allow him to break me. As the daughter of his greatest enemy, I am confident that I will not be bent to his will. The real question is not whether love can emerge from violence and hatred, but whether I will allow myself to be controlled in a perpetual struggle.

"I'm not going to forget you." He said solemnly, pausing to take my hands in his. I relished the feeling of his rough palm against my smooth ones. ~~~~~~ "You're raising your voice, Weston!" Mrs. Smith half yelled. "You're raising your voice at me, all because of her!" "I should probably go." I said softly, before turning and walking out of the room. ~~~~~ "My parents want me to begin the mating ritual with someone three full moons after I'm officially made Alpha." He finally admitted. My eyes widened in surprise and a bit of dread. "B-but...you haven't found your mate yet." ~~~~~~ Ella Badmus has been in love with her best friend for as long as she could remember. She's used to being his priority just as he was hers. Now he's turning twenty-five and getting ready to be the pack's Alpha. A lot's changing and there's nothing she can do about it.

The yacht I'm steering crashes into a huge wave, scaring my husband's junior, who has a heart condition. So, my husband orders someone to tie me up and dangle me in the ocean by a rope. He even tells the captain to head straight into the waves. "You know Wren has a heart condition, yet you still scared her! How can you be so evil?" I beg him to let me go and tell him that I was following a charted path; I didn't mean for anything to happen. However, he just mocks me. "You've been a yacht driver for so long. Haven't you experienced anything like this before? I'll make you go through what Wren did! Let's see whether you'll pull this again!" After a day and night of this torment, he relents and decides to pull me back up. It's too bad he doesn't know that the waves have already torn me to shreds.

The cities richest man daughter were both very different from each other, from inside and out. On the day of the wedding of the older daughter Rachel, she was killed by her younger sister Amber and her fiancé Smith. But later her eyes opened in an unfamiliar room, she found out that she has been rescued by the cities well known and the most brave General of all time, who will help her reach her goal to take revenge from her sister and fiancé, but in return the general wants her to be his personal assistant as well as his wife for couple years. on the other side, the General is secretly investigating her father. And Rachel doesn't know anything about it, she just thinks that the General wants a fake relationship with her to avoid the his marriage, but from whom he is marrying was a literal shock for Rachel . But the fait is planning something different, on their way to reach their goals they both will feel a weird kind of attraction with each other AKA love. On the way to achieve their goals they both will encounter with a mystery that they haven't even thought about.

"I TOLD YOU THERE WON'T BE LAST WARNING" his agitation increased and scars dominated his face. his claws lengthened snappily while Alex was still staring. I only felt that flashy air as Alex got pulled up. Before I knew what was happening, he had hurled him against the wall and had a hole in his chest. "I'm sorry, A-A-Alex is gone...... ****************************************** Sebastian was a mythical vampire who fell for me and was ready to devour anyone else who wants me. I died in a car crash but not even heaven or hell accepted me because I haven't completed my longevity. Lucifer, the angel of hell had arrived to take me with him because he adored me when I died. The Almighty felt like my presence would change him and his legacy so... I got reincarnated to earth as an angel. After my reincarnation, I met Sebastian, a non-ordinary vampire who wouldn't live to see me taken away by Lucifer.

The novel consists of several mini-stories about therapy sessions at a therapy clinic named "Soulmate", but the letters "m-a-t-e" were broken in a storm. Each mini-story is narrated by both the psychologists and the patients, describe the patients' worldview, why they do what seems "mentally ill" to us. We often say that the patients' head is abnormal, that their way of thinking is so weird. But is there any possibility that it's because they received different (whether right or wrong) information, so they react differently? Is that just because we "normal people" haven't got enough understanding about this world? Throughout the story, we could see that therapy sessions are a two-way arrow. While the experts are affecting the patient, the patient is also influencing them,“When you look deeply into the darkness, the deep darkness is also looking into you". The story does not make any conclusion about who is right or which world is real, maybe all of them are real, maybe they are all virtual, or maybe, it all doesn't matter. Isn't the world where we live? Wherever you live, that's your world.

"Meet my older son, Dino." I can hardly believe my eyes. My mother’s new fiancé is a billionaire Mr. Alessandro. But it’s his son, Dino, who makes my stomach twist. Dino Alessandro, my worst high school nightmare. The boy who made every day a living hell, who left me with a scar that serves as a constant reminder of everything I endured. Now, he’s going to be my stepbrother. But Dino is different now. Gone is the reckless teenager, replaced by a charming, arrogant man who acts as if our past never happened. He seems intent on winning me over, pushing boundaries and testing limits, as if he can erase the hurt with a single smile. But I haven’t forgotten the scar he left on me. I swore to hate him forever. So why can’t I ignore the way my heart races whenever he’s near? When love and hate collide, will my past wounds finally heal, or will he scar me all over again?

My brother-in-law passed away in an accident. Out of pity for his widow, my husband decided to be the breadwinner for both families. After that, my husband and son both gave all their love to my widowed sister-in-law. On her birthday, my husband and son reserved a restaurant in town for her party. I was plucking corn in the field when I started bleeding, a sign that I was miscarrying. I called my husband, begging him to come home and take me to the hospital. However, he scolded me angrily, calling me a liar. “What the hell are you talking about? I haven’t touched you in months! How could you be pregnant?” My son grabbed the phone impatiently as well. “Mom, the teacher said lying is wrong! Aunt Laura’s blowing out the candles now, bye!” We had been married for seven years, yet they had completely forgotten that today was my birthday too. Despairing, I dialed another number. “Mother, I changed my mind. I’m going back to inherit the clinic.”

Trigger warning! This book includes violence and explicit scenes targeting adult audience (18+). Readers discretion is adviced. *** "I'll give you a life filled with so much pleasure that you forget all the pain you ever went through". *** Living her life as an object, hurt and killed by her father and twin sister, Raven over and over again, Haven grows in a world of fear and survival. Trying her best to get by everyday. Until she meets Urian, the lycan king who is not supposed to have a mate. Creating a bond more stronger than anything that has ever existed. Leaving a world she has always known, her world of hell. And leaving her father and Raven to go into a whole new world. One that was meant to be her new hell, one that was meant to be unbearable, she soon realizes that a love she never knew could exist, one so strong and steady, was now with her and Urian has no plans of ever letting her go. He is ready to show her a taste of paradise every time and everywhere.