Calling Kettle Black Novels & Stories

I was the top bounty thief in the organization. The best they had. After turning in my final score, I announced on the spot that I was done for good. Then, I stood in my studio, blending paint. A single photograph was pinned to the wall before me. Black Viper filled the doorway, the light behind him casting his face in shadow. "What's it like," he asked quietly, "pretending to be an artist?" He stepped further inside. "Does paint smell better than blood?" I placed the palette knife down and wiped my hands slowly. "I'm done. I walked away." "Old Fox didn't approve of it." "That's not my concern." Black Viper crossed the room and tapped the old photograph on the wall. "Are you certain?" I did not want to look. I told myself not to. However, my gaze shifted anyway. A young boy stared back from the photo. "The blind kid?" I had spent ten years searching for him. "Where is he?" I moved toward the wall, reaching to rip the picture down. "One last job," Black Viper said, pressing his palm against the photo. My hand stopped in midair. "What's the target?" "The final lot at next month's auction that the Gilbert Group will be holding. "It's called Mermaid's Tear."

During the two months that I was away for a competition, my neighbors insulted me in the neighborhood’s common group chat. [The girl living on the ninth floor, you look like a decent girl. Why are you bringing so many men back home every day?] [Can you moan a little softer? I don’t care if you’re a sex worker, but if you keep making loud noises until midnight, don’t blame me for calling the police!] [Don’t call the police yet. I haven’t had my turn. How much are you charging, Charlene?] My heart sank. Before I left for my competition, I had asked my boyfriend, Jacob Smith, to take care of my luxury river-view apartment. That way, he could keep an eye on my expensive paintings. What was happening? I rushed home in confusion, but when I opened the door, I was further dumbfounded. My 3,000-square-foot apartment had been partitioned into 30 rooms. Meanwhile, Jacob’s childhood friend, Prissy Black, was holding a string of keys as she collected rent money. When they saw me, everyone started laughing. “What? Are you here to rent from Prissy after learning that she’s providing cheap rooms in such a pristine location? “Too bad everyone knows that you’re eyeing her boyfriend. You won’t be able to benefit from doing such a thing!” I was extremely furious as I approached Jacob to talk about it. However, he told me that it was Prissy’s dream to be a landlady. He asked me not to pay it any mind and to treat it as doing a good deed. “You’re rich anyway. Don’t be so calculative. Everyone’s happy now, so what’s wrong with that?” The keys tinkled in Prissy’s hand as if they were taunting me. “This house doesn’t welcome stray animals like you. You have yourself to blame for not having such a nice boyfriend.” The two of them acted all lovey-dovey in front of me, and I immediately called the police. “Someone’s trespassing on my property, and my painting that’s worth 15 million dollars has gone missing. What type of punishment would this entail?”

I wanted a start over, somewhere quiet. That is why I agreed to move to a new town with mom. The haunting memories were too much to handle. I felt like I couldn't breathe anymore. Entry into a new home should be rewarding, refreshing even. But is It? Why does it feel like I've run into a place that has me question every noise, people and even my own dreams? Something lurks in the deep parts of the forest, it's calling my name- a summon. 'It's You!' That's what I heard. But I never realised that my very own existence, was what GRIPPED the secrets of the moon.

I found my husband with another woman, and by the next day, she was calling my mother "Mom." Selene thought discovering her pregnancy would save her marriage. Instead, she walked in on her husband with his first love, learned she wasn't her parents' biological daughter, and watched as her entire world was handed to a stranger. Aurora, the biological daughter, the first love, the woman with a vendetta. She knows about the pregnancy. She knows about the hospital cover-up. She knows everything. And she won't stop until Selene has nothing left. Some betrayals are planned years in advance. This one was perfect.

For generations, every male born into the Black bloodline has shared the same fate: Find their mate. Love her. Kill her. The entire werewolf world knows the story of the cursed Alpha twins. Vegas Black is obsessed with control. Every rule, every schedule, every decision is designed to prevent him from becoming the monster his father was. Virgo Black is barely holding himself together. His wolf is violent, unpredictable, and responsible for the death of their first mate. After burying the woman they were supposed to spend forever with, the twins made themselves a promise: They would never love again. Then they meet Kalani Taylor. At eighteen, Kalani has spent her entire life proving she doesn't need anyone. She may not have shifted yet, but she's already the strongest warrior in Dark Falls Pack and determined to become a pack doctor. So discovering she's mated to both cursed Alpha twins feels less like fate... And more like a death sentence. Forced to leave everything behind and move to Shadow Pack, Kalani quickly discovers the curse didn't just destroy the Black family. It destroyed an entire pack. Nobody gets too close. Nobody questions the rules. Nobody talks about the dead mate. And nobody dares challenge the Alpha twins. Until her. The problem? The more Vegas pushes her away, the more she wants to fight him. The more Virgo tries to stay distant, the harder it becomes to resist her. And for the first time in generations, the curse is reacting differently. Because Kalani isn't just another mate. She might be the one woman powerful enough to destroy the curse forever. If the twins don't destroy her first.

Imagine loving someone in secret for a decade, watching them chase the one person who could never truly accept them, believing their wedding would finally free them and you, only to see him drop to his knees in front of everyone, begging her to stay and calling you, his best friend and secret mate, “just friend”. The pain rips through you, you drown it in alcohol, follow a scent that feels like home, and wake up beside a man who looks exactly like him and wants nothing more than to ruin you, strip every ounce of innocence from your bones, and worship the grounds of your sanctuary day and night.

Aiden Atkinson, a rejected Alpha werewolf, searches for a life of meaning; when he stumbles upon Kayla Lawson. He soon learns to love and trust someone new in his messed up life. Kayla Lawson, a broken young woman, has an identity crisis and discovers she is a mermaid. When the war between werewolves and mermaids is revealed to Kayla by Aiden, she must decide to tell him who she really is and risk their new relationship. As she begins to make amends with the death of her parents, Kayla finds herself drawn to the ocean by a mysterious voice calling her into the depths of the ocean. Perhaps these voices can help Kayla make sense of the world around her.

She is a to die for beauty, twenty-seven years without a husband or boyfriend, her first love who she never got to make hers is the only man she has ever learned to love and was it. People have been calling her a spinster unknowingly o her. And the first day someone calls it to her face, it was him, the most wanted bachelor in the country. But no one knows him, he is a mysterious man known worldwide but no one knows his real identity. Her rock-hard heart skips when she hears his voice for the first time, “You are mine for tonight, spinster Kira” “Then you will be my boyfriend, I am no spinster.”

Emma Grey is a beta from the well-known Solis Pack, where betas are hated and abused on. Facing her family feud and perception among the members of the pack, she is bound to fight for her life. One after another challenges continues to present itself and when she started to lose hope, she met him. Her mate, Nathan Black, an alpha from Luna Pack. When one living in a different world stumbled upon each other, can love really conquer all? Follow through their journey in going through their challenges embracing their love together. - “All of it was a mistake.” - Emma Grey “Then, look me in the eyes and tell me. Tell me that everything we had didn't mean a thing to you. Tell me…” - Nathan Black

“New destiny,” the wind whispered. Instinctively, my wolf leapt forward in protection, growling menacingly. I crouched in front of her, inhaling her sweet scent—the same one that had drawn me to her, the same one that stirred something deep within me, calling to me without a single word. I whispered to the wolf: “So, the rumors were true… Hunter not only kept his daughter as a prisoner but also hunted her.” The tone of my voice sent a pleasant shiver through the air, teasing my own ears. “Tell me, blind wolf, I just killed your father. Do you hate me for it?”