Do Sunflowers Have Thorns

Pouco antes do casamento, descobri que estava grávida de dois meses. Meu noivo, Diogo Bragança, com o hálito de quem havia bebido, pousou a mão na minha barriga, murmurou em tom de brincadeira: — Francisca, acho que ainda não estou pronto pra ser pai. Vamos... deixar esse bebê pra depois? Respondi com o coração vazio: — Tudo bem. Na vida passada, insisti em ter esse filho. Na mesma época, Antonella Coutinho sofreu um aborto e perdeu a chance de engravidar. Diogo me culpou por isso e, depois do casamento, foi frio comigo até o fim. O filho que carreguei com dor e quase à custa da minha vida, Lenor Bragança, mais tarde passou a chamar Antonella de “mamãe” aos gritos. No dia em que sofri um acidente e perdi muito sangue, pai e filho passaram por mim sem sequer olhar para trás. Eles tinham pressa. Antonella estava em trabalho de parto. Lá em cima, eu morria, esvaída em sangue. Lá embaixo, eles comemoravam o nascimento de uma nova vida, balançando bastões de luz. Desta vez, não vou mais me abandonar por ninguém. Disquei para o diretor do instituto: — Quero me juntar à expedição na Antártida.

Como a companheira predestinada de Loki Whalen, Alfa da alcateia Darkshadow, eu sempre acreditei que seria sua única Luna por toda a vida. Mas hoje, essa mentira se despedaça. No registro oficial da alcateia, meu nome foi riscado como sua companheira. Em seu lugar está Maya Hemmings, a mulher que ele dizia ter deixado a alcateia anos atrás e que, na verdade, sempre foi seu verdadeiro amor. A verdade é cruel. Nesse instante, a dor excruciante de uma rejeição de vínculo dilacera minha alma. É então que percebo que a fraqueza que senti no último ano não vinha da dor de não conseguir engravidar, mas das consequências do nosso vínculo rompido. Loki precisa da minha poderosa linhagem sanguínea para gerar um herdeiro e salvar a alcateia da praga conhecida como Blight. O que ele não sabe é que, ontem, o curandeiro me disse que estou grávida dos gêmeos que ele sempre sonhou em ter. Já que o amor dele é uma mentira, eu não tenho mais motivos para ficar. Agora, partirei levando comigo seus verdadeiros herdeiros.

Três anos depois da minha morte, meu marido finalmente se lembrou da minha existência. Acontece que a amiga de infância dele teve uma recaída de leucemia e precisava urgente de um transplante de medula. Ele foi lá em casa para me fazer assinar a doação, mas quando chegou, não achou ninguém. Preocupado, procurou os vizinhos e começou a perguntar insistentemente por mim. Uma vizinha olhou para ele com pena e disse: — Você está falando da Carina? Ela morreu tem anos! Mesmo doente, arrancaram a medula dela. Voltou do hospital acabada e não aguentou. Meu marido se recusou a acreditar. Estava convencido de que a vizinha mentia para ele. Ele ficou vermelho de raiva, virou para mulher e gritou: — Se ver ela, avisa: se não aparecer em 3 dias, não pago mais nada para o tratamento daquele bastardo que ela insistiu em criar. A vizinha só suspirou, balançou a cabeça e resmungou baixinho: — Coitada, mas a criança já morreu de fome faz tempo...

He was consumed by hate, while love ripped through me like a storm. We were like two thorns, trapped in a prickly embrace with no escape. We exchanged vows soaked in blood, sealed with a brutal kiss, and bound by bloodied rings, with no happily ever after on the horizon. Marco Costello, my so-called prince, shackled me as his wife, but he was no savior. I used to imagine what our life would have been like if I had said yes all those years ago instead of running away. I'd play Juliette to his brooding Romeo. But fate had a different script for me, casting me as the antagonist, trapped in a cycle of resentment and sadness, like a lost soul wandering through the shadows, unseen and unappreciated. “Till death do us part...” It wasn't a promise of forever, but a sentence to endless torment.

Rejeitada, a vida de Zaia Toussaint desmorona quando seu marido se divorcia dela e a troca por sua ex-namorada. Expulsa de sua casa e de sua posição, Zaia abandona o grupo, levando consigo um segredo que ela espera que seu marido nunca descubra. Ela está grávida dos filhos dele.Sebastian King é um belo e conhecido Alfa com um império multimilionário, cujo nome é bem conhecido, não apenas no mundo dos lobisomens, mas no mundo dos negócios.Ele tem tudo, riqueza, poder, uma enorme matilha e, acima de tudo, a esposa perfeita. Uma Luna que toda a sua matilha e família passaram a amar. O retorno de sua ex destrói o casamento deles, fazendo com que Sebastian expulse cegamente sua companheira de sua vida. O que acontecerá quando ele descobrir o segredo que ela esconde dele? Será que ele se arrependerá da decisão que tomou ao deixá-la de lado?Será que ela o perdoará e algum dia o aceitará de volta?

Our Black Friday sales broke ten million. I allocated a budget of $100,000 and told my deputy to organize a celebration dinner for the team. However, after the party ended, everyone in the team looked at me in disdain. I only realized the reason when I heard their complaints in the break room one day. “Ms. Heaton is such a cheapskate. We made ten million in sales, and she treated us with a $3.99 budget takeout for the celebration.” “Seriously, I heard from Ms. Reiser that Ms. Heaton kept the money for herself! She just didn’t want to spend it on us.” My assistant even showed me a post circulating online, accusing me of exploiting employees and lining my own pockets. I summoned my deputy manager, Casey Reiser, to my office. She fell to her knees in tears and confessed everything. “I’m so sorry, Ms. Heaton! My daughter needed emergency heart surgery. In a moment of weakness, I misused the funds!” However, I had clearly seen her daughter sign up for a dance class just yesterday! Since everyone was so quick to judge without knowing the truth, I would retract the team’s monthly budget of one million then!

“Others may see her as nothing, but to me, she’s more precious than the moon itself.” Ignoring the stunned glances of everyone around, he fixed his gaze on me across the room and strode over with unwavering intent. I felt my heart pound, the same way flowers seem to burst into bloom. Omega Olivia never imagined that a one-night stand would link her to the enigmatic and powerful Alpha, Ryan. Given the stark difference in their social status, she braced herself for the worst—perhaps even the demand for a quiet miscarriage. But instead, Ryan took her home, pulling her into a love story beyond anything she could have dreamed. Yet, as she walks this path of romance, lined with both roses and thorns, will they be able to bridge their worlds, uncover the hidden conspiracies, and find their way to happiness hand-in-hand?

***This book contains strong language, explicit scenes, extremely detailed sex scenes. Proceed at your discretion*** Ellie loses her brother to ‘mysterious’ consequences and her life is turned upside down the second she learns of it. A man obsessed with control. A man consumed by the need to always win. A man with nothing left to lose. In the streets of Milan, they're known as The Black Rose but to Ellie, they're the thorns that will puncture the bubble that was once her normal life. Lorenzo, Noir and Silas will become Ellie's worst nightmare as well as her greatest desire. When they claim her as theirs to protect, theirs to own, she realizes that her old life is gone and that there's no such thing as normal when it comes to these men. Not when The Black Rose wants her. Not when they will burn the world down just to keep her by their sides. They will have her. And she will break them.

"Didn't he tell you anything about me," She asked. She looked quite ethereal and unreal from where she stood, her baby bump showing so clearly that no one would believe she wasn't pregnant. "I'm pregnant honey and Anthony is responsible," She said again, this time her voice was firm and she looked me in the eyes. How could she be pregnant though? I was also pregnant. ** Vanessa Ives, daughter of a runaway mother and an artist that turned to a life of drugs would do anything she can to get her brother back and help her family. She would even get married to her ex boyfriend just because of his mother. Anthony Thorns, doesn't want a child, doesn't want to get married and wants to stay the heck away from his family and their trouble. But when Vanessa appears in his life again after six years, he has to do what she wants just so she could get what she needed. He just didn't know that it would cost him his sanity.

“Tell me, little wolf,” Alvar whispers, his breath hot against Caierre’s skin. “Do you tremble because you hate me… or because you want me?” On his thirteenth birthday, Caierre lost everything, his home, his family, and his voice. His pack was wiped out by the Silvermark wolves under the ruthless rule of High Alpha Alvar. Years later, Caierre returns with one goal in mind: revenge. But when he finally meets Alvar, something changes. The bond between them burns too strong to ignore. Hate turns to desire, and the man he swore to kill becomes the one his soul cannot live without. In a world ruled by blood, war, and curses, love becomes their greatest sin. “Barbarian: Court of Thorns and Roses” by StarsTouch Pen — a dark, forbidden MM werewolf romance where vengeance meets passion, and fate tests the line between love and destruction.