Derek Hale Shirtless

My best friend, Maya, flew in from Miami for my bachelorette week. My last days of freedom. She insisted on a girls' night in to celebrate, ordering all my favorite takeout. She asked me to hold her mobile phone and wait.Then her phone lit up. A message from some guy. A shirtless pic. Text: I need you tonight. Another photo buzzed through. Sex toys. Bondage gear straight out of a movie. My face burned. My heart hammered against my ribs. I’d just stumbled into her secret life. But the next image made my blood run cold. A close-up of the man's chest. A jagged scar I knew better than my own reflection. It belonged to my fiancé, Luciano Carbone.

Derek, a Beta werewolf, has a secret that is keeping the new Alpha of their pack from claiming his position as pack leader and it has nothing to do with power. Derek has been in love once... but being in love with a human has cost him. Especially when he learned that she had moved on. There was no way to find her. No way to know. His pack never knew why he continuously rejected every she-wolf that came to pass, and he had no reason to bring it up. He didn’t owe them anything. The trouble he faced began to build since being welcomed back in after his time splitting from the pack. There was nowhere else for him to go now that his heart had been absolutely broken. But even this connection has him concerned with his status among them. A rogue that returned was never respected. He knew that. They didn’t trust him. And why should they? Derek knew it would only be time before he left again, regardless of the implications going forward. All that mattered was finding his human mate, Aislyn, and salvaging the love she worked so hard to promise him.

Esmeralda Bandares melarikan diri dari rumahnya, bersama Catherine, sepupunya, dan bersembunyi di Hawaii, sebagai Leah dan Alicia Spencer. Di sana, mereka mengenal Hale dan Darren. Jika Hale berusaha menjerumuskan mereka, Darren selalu menjadi dewa penolong mereka. Namun, itu sebelum Esme mengetahui siapa Darren sebenarnya. Saat telah mengetahui siapa Darren sesungguhnya entah keberadaan pria itu masihkah disyukurinya atau malah disesalinya?

On Valentine’s Day, someone stabbed my mother-in-law twenty times until she died. So, I took the murderer to court. My wife was a renowned lawyer, but she decided to defend him. I confronted her in anger, but she casually replied, “Derek’s younger brother is still a college student. Can’t you be a little more forgiving? “I’ll bring Derek and his younger brother along to visit your mother’s grave. Drop the charges. Don’t let this go to trial and embarrass me when you lose the case.” Looking at the mangled corpse full of stabbing wounds, I could not help but let out a bark of laughter. It looked like she was still unaware that the corpse was actually her own mother.

My daughter was being slandered at the werewolf aristocratic high school. The other party threatens my daughter, saying that her father, one of the most powerful Alphas in the territory, will soon have my daughter kicked out of school. But the father they called for backup turned out to be my mate, Derek. When I saw Emma, her hair was a mess, her clothes disheveled and torn, with tear stains still fresh on her face. My heart ached. Rage surged through me. Across from us stood a glamorous she-wolf, her chin lifted high with arrogance. "So what if my daughter slandered yours? Look at what you're wearing. You're nothing but poor Omega wolves." The girl who had spread rumors about my daughter was equally brazen. "My father is a major shareholder of this academy. If you dare defy me, I can have trash like you expelled in minutes!" But the father who arrived in a luxury SUV to back them up, dressed in an expensive tailored suit—wasn't that my mate Derek? When Derek saw Emma and me, he frowned, clearly surprised. I let out a cold laugh. "Derek, so you have another family and another daughter now?"

On the day of my mating ceremony with my Alpha mate, Derek, his childhood sweetheart Victoria returned. Victoria, using her supposed silver poisoning as an excuse for needing care, crashed our ceremony. She snatched my mate away, turning me into a laughingstock for the entire pack. Derek, seemingly unconcerned, said, "She's silver-poisoned. Her body's weak. Don't overthink it." He carried her to the pack healer, leaving me alone and humiliated. I yanked off the silver pendant he'd given me when he chose me as his mate. As I tossed it aside, it sliced my palm. To my horror, the small cut didn't heal. Instead, blood flowed freely. Because I was the one truly poisoned by silver. Derek didn't know. Months ago, during a rogue wolf attack, I'd taken a silver bullet meant for him. I survived, but my wolf lost her healing ability forever. Later, I overheard the usually strong and calm Alpha yelling at the pack healer, "How did you miss this? If anything happens to my Luna, none of you will survive!"

Lors de ma cérémonie d'union, la demi-sœur d'Alpha Derek, Victoria, est arrivée dans une robe cérémonielle de Luna à 30 millions d'euros, affirmant que notre meute ne pouvait pas se le permettre. Victoria m'a poussée dans le feu sacré, et alors que les flammes brûlaient ma peau, Derek m'a hurlé, m'accusant d'avoir gâché la cérémonie et de l'avoir humilié devant tout le monde. Ils sont partis ensemble pour leur lune de miel – celle que j'ai payée de ma propre poche. Des loups de la meute rivale m'ont encerclée. Ma louve ne pouvait pas se transformer, à cause de la grossesse. Par notre lien télépathique, j'ai supplié Derek de m'aider. Mais il m'a bloquée… pendant qu'il embrassait Victoria sur une plage des Maldives. Les griffes de l'Alpha rival ont éventré mon ventre, et mon enfant à naître a été déchiqueté. Derek est revenu en larmes, m'implorant de lui pardonner. Comme une idiote, je l'ai fait. Mais ce qu'il ignore, c'est que je suis l'héritière Alpha de la meute la plus puissante des Territoires du Nord. Rompre notre lien d'âmes ne suffira pas. Je vais tout lui prendre.

Alex doesn’t do complications, especially not the kind that come with a smoking hot, cocky, openly bi roommate who sleeps shirtless and looks like temptation personified. He’s straight and he has a girlfriend and sharing a dorm room with Seth Carter was never supposed to mean sharing anything else. But when one drunken mistake turns into an unforgettable night, the boundaries blur fast. Now Alex can’t stop thinking about the way Seth looks at him or the way he felt when Seth touched him like no one else ever has. Seth isn’t asking Alex to figure it all out. But he’s not about to play dirty little secret, either. And the more Alex tries to run from the truth, the more it hunts him down.

Warning: This book contains sexual contents that are not suitable for those under 18🔞🔞. Please proceed with caution. He was supposed to be a one-night stand. Now I’m holding a gun to his head and I still want to kiss him. I’m a hitman. Flirty, unhinged, and hired to kill the cold, powerful mafia boss I’ve been obsessed with for months. But the moment I see him again, shirtless and smug, everything falls apart. Instead of pulling the trigger, I give him a warning. Now we’re hunting down the person who ordered the hit while trying to keep our hands off each other. He’s dangerous. I’m worse. And between the bullets, betrayals, and bedroom threats… I still don’t know if I want to kiss him or kill him.

Used as nothing more than a toy by her mate, life turns sideways for Alisha Morrin, who wakes up one morning to find herself in bed with the Alpha of the enemy pack, Derek Wayland. What happens when she tries all she can to escape his sights, but to no avail? And how long can she hold off, especially when she is carrying his child? The Red Wolf pack and the Silver Moon pack have been at odds for generations now, though they are powerful packs in their own right. When Derek Wayland, unmated Alpha of the Red Wolf pack, wakes up one morning with a mate bond burning in his heart, what happens when he finds out who his mate truly is?