Charlie Kelly

A companion book to the Trio of Mates series, this book describes how the original pairings of the trios came together: Lovers to Friends: The story of Carl (Brandon's dad) and Richard and Lauren (Devin's parents). Destined for Each Other: The story of Corinda, Casen, and Severn In the Midst of Battle: The story of Bhakti and Liam Right Place, Wrong Time: The story of Gael and Hakeem I Always Knew: The story of Charlie and Zak

Seseorang tuan muda besar yang merupakan CEO dari perusahaan terbesar sepanjang masa dalam dunia bisnis yang tak lain lain adalah MaLvi Company. Reza Abrisam Malviano ialah pemilik perusahaan tersebut. Dengan sifatnya yang arogan, sombong, dan angkuhnya tak luput dengan banyaknya orang-orang yang mau menghancurkan dirinya terlebih lagi dengan kedudukannya di MaLvi Company. Tangannya meraih lalu membuka map biru yang bernama 'Nara Charlie' Reza sudah bersumpah akan membalaskan dendamnya pada keluarga Charlie, walau pun ia tahu kalau Nara tidak bersalah sama sekali tapi tetap saja bagi Reza. Orang sudah berkhianat akan selamanya seperti itu. Reza sama sekali tidak pernah memandang bulu jika ingin membalaskan dendamnya. Markas yang ia beli untuk dijadikan tempat eksekusian para tikus-tikus nakal sudah menjadi bukti betapa kejamnya Reza dalam dunia bisnis. Reyhan yang sudah hafal betul gimana sifat dan juga perilaku Reza, ia berharap penuh dengan seseorang gadis yang akan menjadi mangsa Reza selanjutnya.

Book One Kelly Bradley didn’t need to worry about falling in love when she came up with her plan to marry Jack Sutton. She’d dated so many great guys over the years, but not fallen in love once. Not with any of them. It just wasn’t in the cards for her. So, when she approached powerful, sexy Jack Sutton and proposed a temporary marriage-of-convenience, she wasn’t one bit concerned that her heart would be on the line. But, when Jack agrees and she moves into his home, Kelly quickly discovers just how wrong she was. Before she knows it, not only is her heart on the line, but her life is, too. Book Two After a near-death experience, artist Ashley Price is compelled to paint visions of the dead. Then she paints a man buried alive and, recognizing the surroundings, she rushes to save him. Instead of being grateful to her for rescuing him, Detective Jack Sullivan accuses her of being in league with a serial killer. He swears he will put her behind bars. Except, the more time he spends with her, the more he falls under her spell. Can he trust her, or is he walking into another deadly trap?

When Alkira Kelly Muller is forced to marry the young billionaire, Zane Lander Johnstone her world turns upside down as he vows to make her life a living hell. To him, she is just an opportunist, using him for her own financial gain. But little did he know, there is more to the story than he believes, and he can trust no one. Not friends, not family! Can he even trust himself?

Anita Williams is a werewolf, an Alpha to be exact. She’s the leader of Velvet Waters Pack, one of the strongest and wealthiest packs in the United States. Anita had everything she could ever want, except one thing, her mate. Unlike other werewolves when she turned eighteen she didn’t feel the pull of her mate. Now 23 years old and still mateless, Anita has decided to just give up. That is until Anita and her friends decided to go out for drinks and her wolf goes crazy. She is ecstatic when she starts to feel the mate-pull, that is until her eyes land on him. Not only is Anita’s mate human he’s also not at all like she expected. Kelly Salvatore was never popular. He wasn’t the guy that a girl walked up to and shamelessly flirted with. No, he was the man that always got stuck in the friend zone and never got the girl. He was a 25-year-old antisocial virgin so, when a beautiful girl like Anita tries to talk to him he immediately shuts her out. Anita will need to channel her patience if she wants any chance at getting Kelly to accept her. Now that she’s found him, there was no way he was leaving, he was her human mate. Once again, her name is Anita Williams and this is her life story!

On the night of the full moon, I lie in the forbidden grounds on the brink of death because of the wolfsbane terrorizing my system. My Alpha mate, Elio Palmer, wrenches my fingers open and snatches the only antidote that I have. "Kelly grew up with me since we were pups. After her parents died, I've been the one who's closest to her. As the Luna, you must sacrifice yourself for her." Then, Elio feeds the antidote to Kelly Giles, who has only gotten infected with a tiny hint of wolfsbane. He doesn't hesitate to abandon me, his dying mate, in the forbidden grounds afterward. He thinks I will accept my death without any resentment, seeing as he's tamed me during our times together. But what he doesn't know is that the thick stench of death doesn't attract any beasts to my side the moment our mate bond is completely severed. Instead, it attracts the attention of Samuel Gray, the Lycan King who drills raw terror into every werewolf in the land. Some time later, Samuel approaches me after slaughtering all the beasts in the forbidden grounds. "Are you planning to die like that after getting abandoned by an inferior mutt?"

Three years ago, during a critical moment of a business negotiation, the proprietary data I personally compiled ended up becoming the weapon that secured the victory for my business rival. I was taken away on the charges of leaking corporate secrets—and my girlfriend, Kelly Stone, smugly flashes the proprietary data at me, mocking me for my foolishness. After being given a five-year prison sentence, I suffered endless torture behind bars and died from the internal injuries. However, I got to witness everything that happened following my death. Whitney Evans, a college senior of mine who had a thing for me, did everything in her power to clear my name. She sold her company and pursued every avenue she could. In the end, after losing everything, she cried herself unconscious at my grave. Then, suddenly, my eyes opened again. I saw Kelly sneaking a USB drive into her handbag before turning to leave. I grabbed the USB drive from her and looked her in the eye, warning, "What you're doing is against the law, Kelly. I advise you to watch yourself from now on. Also, it's over between us. Don't even set foot inside my office again." Immediately, I went looking for Whitney. Three years have passed since then. In that time, I've managed to secure success in both career and love. It won't be long before I complete the acquisition of my company's business rival, Havenshire Group. Yet, the night before the official signing, I drink a glass of milk that Whitney gives me. My body swiftly goes weak, and I collapse on the couch. When I regain consciousness, I find myself lying on the floor with my hands and feet bound in metal chains. I can hear Kelly's and Whitney's voices ringing loud and clear. "No one will be able to see that you forged Caleb's signature for the share transfer agreement with Sam as the recipient, right?" "We'll just keep Caleb locked up here, so who's going to know that the signature is forged? His company has been expanding too quickly. We can't let him ruin Sam. It's all your fault, anyway, Kelly. I wouldn't have had to waste all those years on Caleb if you'd just stolen the data back then!" Taking in my restraints, I let out a self-deprecating smile. All along, I believed that Whitney and I loved each other. Turns out I've just been deluded this whole time. If Kelly and Whitney care about Samuel Gibson that much, they'd better spend every moment of their lives guarding him from now on. I'm going to do everything in my power to destroy him!

Zack clears his throat. "We have been dreaming about Brandon Snow." "Ahhh," Lucille says, smiling and nodding her head. "The future Beta. And a white wolf to boot. Your future pups will be quite beautiful with Charlie's chocolate coloring and Zak's reddish hue. The three of you will make wonderful parents." Zak's mouth drops open and Charlie squeaks out, "Our future... pups!" "What do you know of Selene and her mates?" Lucille asks. "Mates? I only know of one mate. Pan," Charlie says. "As the god of the wild and the goddess of the moon, Pan and Selene's children became werewolves. Wild creatures who were controlled by the moon." "Ahhh. Is that what they are teaching the young pups now? That Selene only had one mate? I knew that they didn't want mate trios any longer, but I didn't know that they would attempt to change even Selene's story," Lucille chuckles. "Alpha, Luna, do you truly believe that if there was no humanity in their coupling that we would be human at all?" "Wait. What?" Zak says. "If we were only children of Pan and Selene, we would always be wild creatures. Nymphs, satyrs, centaurs. But we aren't. Of course, we could remain in our wolf form all the time if we wish, but we always have the ability to shift into human form. No, young ones, Selene had two mates. One, the god Pan. The other, a human man named Endymion. We get our wolves from Pan, our pull to the moon from Selene, and our human selves from Endymion," Lucille says. "Why..." Zak licks his lips and starts again. "Why weren't we told this?" "Ahhh," Lucille breathes out, taking a sip of her coffee. "Because not every wolf has two mates, as Selene did. As you two do."

Mabait, mayaman at maganda, ganyan ang tingin ng buong mundo kay Charlize Elizabeth Sandejas o Charlie, ang tagapagmana ng Sandejas Shipping Lines. Nasa kanya na ang lahat maliban sa isang bagay-- ang puso ni Gael Estrada, ang ulilang lubos na tinulungan noon ng kanyang mga magulang at ang kaisa-isang lalaking kanyang minahal. Thinking he doesn't want her because of their differences in life, Charlie had spent the last three years of her college life trying to unlove and forget him. Subalit muling bumalik si Gael sa buhay niya bilang kanyang bagong bodyguard. Sa pagkakataong iyon, nagtapat si Gael sa tunay nitong nararamdaman na siya lang ang pinakamamahal nito at wala nang iba. Nang maipit si Charlie sa isang kasunduang hindi naman niya talaga ginusto, lihim siyang nagpakasal kay Gael at nagpakalayo-layo. At nang akala niya maayos na ang lahat sa piling ng kanyang mahal, bigla na lamang siyang iniwan ni Gael sa panahong kailangang-kailangan niya ito. Makalipas ang halos limang taon, muli silang nagkita ni Gael. He is now a billionaire but doesn't have any memory of her. He wants two things from her, her signature on their divorce papers and her company's closure. Papayag ba siya sa gusto ni Gael nang gano'n-gano'n na lang gayong ito ang unang nanakit at nang-iwan sa kanya? Paano niya lalabanan ang galit sa kanya ng dating asawa na hindi niya alam kung saan nagmula? At higit sa lahat, paano niya sasabihin dito ang tungkol sa kanilang anak na bunga ng minsan nilang pagmamahalan na hindi naman nito maalala

My husband, James Lincoln, disappeared in an accident, and my in-laws wasted no time filing to have him legally declared deceased. At the funeral, a woman, Xena Xander, suddenly showed up with a young boy, both crying hysterically. The boy, Charlie Lincoln, screamed at the top of his lungs, calling my husband “Daddy.” My ten-year-old daughter, Mia Lincoln, charged at him, shouting, “Shut up! That’s my dad!” Pretending to break it up, my in-laws instead shoved Mia to the ground. She collapsed and passed out on the spot. “If you’re looking for someone to blame, blame yourself for not giving us a grandson! This family can’t die out without an heir!” Xena smirked at me with blatant provocation. Behind her, Charlie spat in my direction and sneered, “You’re just a worthless tramp nobody cares about.” I didn’t lose my temper. Instead, I laughed. “If you want the status and the inheritance so badly, you can have them. But don’t come crying to me when you regret it.” Two weeks later, Xena showed up at my doorstep, covered in blood, banging on the door and screaming. And then, I got a phone call that felt like a nightmare come to life. But I couldn’t have cared less. By then, I was already enjoying a peaceful vacation overseas.