Choose Or Die

My husband, an Army regimental commander, was killed in action. Before his body was even cold, I didn't hesitate. I filed for his death certificate and notified the Army, the Social Security Administration, and our bank. Then, three days later—on the very day his twin brother married his childhood sweetheart—I moved out, changed the locks, and remarried quietly at the courthouse, taking my son and the full line-of-duty death benefits with me. To everyone else, I was heartless. Cold. I let them curse me. I just looked into my “brother-in-law's” bloodshot eyes and felt a quiet, cruel satisfaction. Only I knew the truth. In my last life, I discovered the body sent home wasn't my husband's at all—it was his identical twin brother's. I ran to confront him, but by chance I overheard him and my mother-in-law whispering. "Mom, Sarah is strong. And we have our son. She'll be okay. The benefits will take care of her. But Amy has waited for my brother all these years. If she finds out he's dead, she might do something drastic." Their words struck me like lightning. I tried to expose them, but my husband knocked me out. He told everyone grief had driven me insane. He locked me in the garage apartment and, with cold detachment, married his sweetheart. And when that woman complained my son was too loud, my husband slipped sleeping pills into our boy's juice—right as my crying child was coming to look for me. My son never woke up. The day they buried him hastily, I ended my life in the garage, utterly broken. When I opened my eyes again, I was back to the day they delivered my brother-in-law's body to our home.

Sera Quinn had one job. Marry a dying man, keep her head down, and wait. Nobody told her that Damien Voss did not die on anyone's schedule but his own. She was twenty two years old when her stepfather sat her down at the kitchen table and explained her options. Her mother was sick. The bills were swallowing everything. And the most powerful billionaire in the country was lying unconscious in a private hospital ward with his family desperate enough to pay a small fortune to any woman willing to stand beside him at the altar. All Sera had to do was say yes. She said yes. She had no other word left. She moved into his mansion and tried to be invisible. She talked to him in the dark of his room every night because there was nobody else and because she was sure he could not hear her. She told him things she had never told anyone. She told him she was scared. She told him she was pregnant. Then she overheard four words that changed everything and she ran before the sun came up. Four years later she had rebuilt herself from nothing. A career. A spine. Twin children with their father's eyes. A case file she had been building alone, one quiet hour at a time, that connected a road barrier report to a name that would put people in prison. She had one rule. Stay away from Damien Voss. Then her four year old daughter hacked into his private server and left him a message. Damien was already in his car before Sera found out what her daughter had done. He was not coming to talk. And Sera Quinn was finally done running.

In the third year of my relationship with Jason Chase, he told me he wanted to give me an unforgettable birthday. I never expected that that would mean pressing me onto the icy ground and letting other men humiliate me. I lifted my head with difficulty, trembling as I clutched at the hem of his pants. I asked, "Jason… why?" He looked at me with contempt and kicked me away without any hesitation. He said icily and ruthlessly, "Christine Light, this is for Lisa. I've been waiting a long time to avenge her." I closed my eyes as my heart shattered into a million pieces. Later, just as he wished, I decided to end my life. But then, he broke down in tears, begging me not to leave him.

"Marry me before i die and after that, i will make sure your daughter will get a new heart. Just marry me, and say i do in front of my parents."- SPADE CEDRIC VASILE What will you do if death is on it's way to take you? Upang matupad ni Spade ang kaniyang pangako sa kaniyang mga magulang, handa siyang magpakasal without binding with so called love, just a pure contract hanggang sa sumapit ang araw kaniyang kamatayan. Yet, hihilingin pa ba ni Spade na mamatay kung ang puso niya ay unti-unting nahuhulog sa kaniyang asawa, na walang ibang hiniling kung hindi ang madugtungan ang kaniyang buhay. Paano kakalabanin ni Spade ang kamatayan, kung nalalabi nalang ang mga oras ng kaniyang buhay. Will the heavens heed his plea to prolong his days, if only to remain with the woman who ignited his desire to live?

I was with Marco, the New York Mafia heir, for seven years. He never told his family about me. But when I walked in on a wedding rehearsal and saw the groom embracing the bride-to-be. It was Marco! "Her fiancé's held up in Italy. I'm just a stand-in," he told me, but his eyes never left her. "You're the best wedding planner in New York. This wedding has to be flawless." But I saw something in his eyes I'd never seen before. A possessiveness that bordered on resentment. Isabella, the bride, hated every idea I had for her. In the end, Marco told me to give her the wedding I'd spent five years designing for myself. "Our wedding can wait. I'll give you something bigger, I promise. It's just a plan, Sophia. It's what you do. Giving it to a client should be easy, right?" He didn't know. It wasn't just a plan. It was my dying wish. In the end, I gave him what he wanted, quietly preparing to die. Later, he went mad, kidnapping the world’s best doctors—risking a global manhunt—all to save me.

His sickness grew worst as his health deteriorated. Han Manuel knew he wasn't going to live much longer and after much denial, he decided to accept his horrid fate. But he found love in the weirdest of girls but prettiest of them all. She gave him hope and a thousand and one reasons to live again. A story of two hearts from two different worlds, joined together by love and destiny....

Sie war dem Namen nach seine Frau, zu Lebzeiten sein Schatten, und seine Erinnerung war zu spät, um sie zu retten. Isabelle Rousseau liebte jahrelang Étienne Beaumont, den Mann, der ein Imperium aufbaute, während sie ihre Zwillingstöchter allein großzog. Er jagte dem Erfolg hinterher. Sie jagte seinem Herzen hinterher. Und als sie ihn dabei ertappte, wie er ihren Jahrestag mit einer anderen Frau feierte, zerbrach nichts in ihr, es hörte auf zu schlagen. Sie geht. Sie nimmt ihren Namen wieder an. Sie baut ihre Welt neu auf. Doch Geheimnisse kommen ans Licht. Die Zwillinge sind nicht seine. Eine Verschwörung bedroht alles. Und eine tödliche Diagnose lässt die Zeit gegen sie beide kämpfen. Kann der Mann, der einst ihr Herz gebrochen hat, es heilen? Oder kommt die Liebe zu spät, um noch etwas zu bewirken? Manche Liebesgeschichten enden mit „Ja, ich will.“ Manche enden mit „Ich vergebe dir.“ Aber die seltensten enden mit „Ich entscheide mich, wieder zu leben.“

In der Nacht ihres achtzehnten Geburtstags hatte Nyra Virellion alles. Reichtum. Macht. Eine liebevolle Familie. Eine Zukunft als Erbin des mächtigen Darkforest-Rudels – und einen Verlobten, der geschworen hatte, sie immer zu beschützen. Am Morgen hatte sie nichts mehr. Ihre Eltern werden brutal ermordet. Die Ältesten wenden sich von ihr ab. Der Beta, dem sie vertraut hatte, stiehlt ihr Geburtsrecht. Und der Mann, den sie heiraten wollte, verrät sie auf die demütigendste Weise, die man sich vorstellen kann. Ihres Titels beraubt und aus ihrem eigenen Rudel verstoßen, entdeckt Nyra die grausame Wahrheit: Die Menschen, die ihr am nächsten standen, hatten die ganze Zeit gegen sie intrigiert. Doch als sie versuchen, sie zu einer Ehe mit genau dem Mann zu zwingen, der ihr Leben zerstört hat, greift jemand Unerwartetes ein. Ein mysteriöser und gefährlich mächtiger Lycan-Alpha – einer, dem selbst die stärksten Wölfe Respekt zollen – weigert sich, das geschehen zu lassen. Und in dem Moment, in dem sich ihre Blicke begegnen, verändert sich alles. Denn das gebrochene Mädchen, das sie wegwerfen wollten, könnte weit wichtiger sein, als irgendjemand ahnt. Nun von Feinden umgeben, von Verrat gejagt und an ein Schicksal gebunden, das sie nie erwartet hatte, muss Nyra sich entscheiden: Wird sie das machtlose Mädchen bleiben, das sie verstoßen haben … oder wird sie sich erheben und alles zurückfordern, was man ihr gestohlen hat?

My mate and my own brother both fell for a low-born Omega. My mate, Kael, kept delaying our Mating Ceremony. “Elara, you were born to be the perfect Luna. She… she has nothing. Just give it time, okay?” My brother, Liam, broke the vow he made to our dying mother. “Dahlia is so helpless, Elara. My duty to protect you extends to her. She needs it more.” On our birthday, Kael chose to comfort a hysterical Dahlia. On the anniversary of my mother's death, Liam was with Dahlia, getting her newly adopted pet treated at the vet. And when they stood on stage with her at the Wolf Summit, accepting the strategic planning award that was mine… I severed my link to the pack and left for good. But when they finally realized they could no longer feel my presence… The two men who cast me aside for a lowborn Omega tore the world apart, desperate for just one trace of me.

Samantha Sonnet, my wife who's also a hospital dean, decides to replace my name with Nicholas Spark, the intern's name on the surgical atlas that I've spent the last three years drafting without my permission. That atlas is then published. I burn the only original draft of the atlas in front of the entire department. Samantha blames me for being brash. "He's just leaving his name there so that he can ensure a smoother project closeout." After dusting the ashes away, I reply, "My academic achievements will always be mine. Since someone else's name is printed on my achievements, that means they are no longer pure." Later at midnight, Samantha hands me a glass of warm milk in an attempt to apologize to me. When I regain consciousness once again, I've already gotten strapped to a surgical table beneath a huge spotlight. I see a scalpel glinting coldly right above me. "You're a man of purity, right?" Samantha murmurs into my ear. "Three people's blood will be coursing through your veins soon enough. You'll be impure soon enough!" At the moment, Samantha is livestreaming an illegal organ removal surgery. As I stare at the camera hovering above my head, I say coldly, "If you've recorded enough evidence, then it's time to turn off the camera! Tell Captain Hardy that I've gotten my hands on the evidence he wants!"