Ecclesiastes 7:20

At 20, Judi thought her life was finally turning around. She and her niece Aria had been struggling for years, barely scraping by in a run down apartment. Then Aria met a man online, a Norwegian billionaire named Aleksander Barginsen and everything changed. Within days, money was pouring in. Gifts, rent paid in full, a luxury penthouse and it felt like a dream. But that dream unraveled fast. Because the man Aria had been talking to wasn’t Aleksander at all. It was his nephew, pretending to be him, spending Aleksander’s fortune behind his back. And when the real billionaire finds out, he shows up furious and ready to press charges. Aria is arrested, and Judi’s world falls apart all over again. But Aleksander offers her a deal: a contract with terms that could get Aria out of jail. It’s risky. It’s complicated. And it comes at a cost Judi isn’t sure she’s ready to pay. Twisted Fate is a gripping story about deception, loyalty, and the impossible choices we make for the people we love.

Back when I was 20, I supported a girlfriend. I paid for her education and even found the best doctors for her mother, who had cancer. The sweet, brilliant girl stayed with me for four years. However, my family went bankrupt after my parents died. I even injured my eyes and broke my legs. I watched her have a heart-to-heart talk with her childhood friend, tears in her eyes. I left without a word, and she never sought me out. Years later, I saw her again while picking up trash outside a hotel. She had become a wealthy CEO and was about to marry her childhood sweetheart. Her gaze at me was cold and indifferent. I bitterly asked, "Do you still hate me?" Yet, with tears streaming down her face, she replied, "Yes… I wish you were dead."

My sister's best friend borrowed 20 thousand from me, saying it was for her mother's medical bills. As a cop, I lent it to her. I figured if I could help, I should. When it was time to pay me back, she didn't return a cent. Instead, she showed up at my precinct holding a baby and accused me of indecent assaults. After a paternity test, the baby turned out to be mine. She went on livestreams, crying about how I broke the law despite being a police officer. She used the scandal to make herself famous. The force treated me like a disgrace and fired me. I tried to explain, but no one believed me. I went from a model officer to a criminal overnight. My parents were cyberbullied; with nowhere left to turn, they both drowned themselves. My wife was also beaten in the street. She suffered a miscarriage from the attack and died from massive blood loss. As for my sister, guilt drove her insane; she was hospitalized before vanishing from the public eye. After my family fell apart, I hanged myself one night. Then I opened my eyes again. I'd been reborn. Facing my sister's evil friend, I vowed to fight back.

As her ears started ringing, the lump in her throat growing, the words he spoke faded into the background. Her eyes welled up, and her breath hitched, she had heard him right? “Earth to Rebecca, hello?!” He replied to her in an annoyed tone. She took a deep breath, “After 20 yrs you really don’t want a life with me” she managed to speak slightly above a whisper. She had been his rock, put his needs first, never said no to his frivolous spending, and had loved him enough for the both of them; yet in the small bedroom in their city apartment he stood with divorce papers in hand. She hadn’t been naive about the rough patch that they were navigating, but they had always worked past because Rebecca had always put her husband 1st. “Rebecca I don’t love you and no level of your love is going to undo these divorce papers. I can’t even stand to be in this room with you, but I want to be on a united front when we tell the kids.”

I was pregnant and just 20 years old. Scared, and stupidly hopeful. But when I told Corey, my mate and the father of my child, he sneered. “Don’t lie to me, you fat b**ch,” he said before slamming his fist into my stomach. The child I carried? Gone. Just as unexpected as it had come. My father, Alpha of our pack, didn’t even flinch. Instead, he brought back his real daughter and sold me off like trash to three Alphas. One of them in a wheelchair, a broken alpha no one wanted. They called him useless. Crippled. But when his cold eyes met mine for the first time, he said, “Good. You’re already used to pain. That makes you easier to keep.” They are leaders of a brutal outlaw pack, exiled and feared. They don't need permission to touch me—they own me. When I wake up screaming from my nightmares, it’s their voices that calm me. “You’re ours now, little lamb. And no one hurts what’s ours.” They say the men I now belong to are broken. One is Crippled, and the others are psychos. But they don’t know them like I’m starting to. They are not just Alphas, they are bikers. I know I can't escape now.

Imagine standing in your white dress, 20 minutes to your wedding and your boyfriend of 4 years and supposed soon to be husband walks in and tells you it was all a mistake and he doesn't want to marry you anymore. You're devastated, because everyone is in the hall waiting for you, both the same people that have mocked you for being in a relationship that was heading nowhere; you should have listened to them. Now you run out crying, after begging him in tears to please consider taking you back (I'm such a fool) You're in the garden crying and you meet his hot half brother and you both share his cigarette. Now he has a proposal. To save you from shame and for personal reasons for him; He's asking you marry him. But it doesn't end there, because you never knew that he was in the Mafia, a top ranker at that, and he has obsession issues. He will literally kill anyone he dares to look at you, he will protect you, even take a bullet or two for you, but there's a catch. You must not fall in love with him. Sounds crazy right? Well let's go

Thanatos walks into the room, and my world stands still. He looks like a Greek god. I can’t catch my breath. He’s almost 7 feet tall. I need to run my fingers through his golden locks that touch his beautiful face. His dark gold eyes burn into my soul. His face is full of scars and draws me in. He is the most handsome man I have ever laid eyes on. His muscles are bulging out of his tux. He smells like a wood fire. Like he’s going to burn my entire world down. My jaw is on the floor. My wolf is howling in my head, begging me to reach out and touch him. He pulls out a chair and sits beside my father. My sisters and I sigh in unison. What I wouldn’t give to be his seat cushion. Traded like property. Marked as a breeder. Ayesha was never meant to survive the Lycan King. But inside her stirs something ancient Stella, a demon wolf bound by blood and rage. She doesn’t obey. She doesn’t kneel. And she certainly doesn’t care that the king wants Ayesha to carry his heir. Ayesha must walk a dangerous line between survival and surrender. Because losing control doesn’t just mean death it means

Every girl dreams of finding her mate. The moment they turn eighteen, it becomes the hope they hold onto and the promise of love. But not for Iris. At 20, Iris has already lost her home, her pack, and the innocence that came with believing in fairy tales. After a brutal rogue attack leaves her people leaderless, she’s forced to move to Clawstone Pack, a pack ruled by Alpha Zane Theron. And that’s when she feels the unmistakable pull of the mate bond. But he doesn’t. Zane doesn’t feel anything. No bond, no spark, no recognition. He’s unable to sense his fated mate… and believes Iris is just another girl trying to lie her way into his life, like so many before her.

Lucien Valez, billionaire CEO of Valez International and secret money launderer for the world’s most dangerous cartels, isn’t used to mistakes. But when a cartel’s heiress, Elena Ramirez, vanishes with $20 million in product, Lucien needs leverage to save his own life. His solution? Kidnap Cassia Monroe, Elena’s quiet best friend from school. A gifted violinist with no ties to the criminal underworld, Cassia is suddenly pulled into a game where love and survival are equally dangerous.

결혼한 지 7년이 지났지만, 경민준은 그녀에게 한결같이 차가웠다. 하지만 연미혜는 사랑했기에, 언젠가는 그의 마음도 따뜻해질 거라 믿었기에, 그 냉랭한 태도를 묵묵히 견뎌냈다. 그러나 7년의 기다림 끝에 그녀에게 돌아온 건 그의 사랑이 아니라, 다른 여자에게 한눈에 반한 남편의 모습이었다. 그는 그 여자에게 다정하고 사려 깊었고, 연미혜는 그 모든 것을 지켜보면서도 끝까지 가정을 지키려 했다. 그러던 어느 날, 연미혜가 생일을 맞아 남편과 딸을 보기 위해 먼 길을 날아갔지만, 그들이 함께 향한 곳은 그녀와의 약속 장소가 아닌 다른 여자의 곁이었다. 그날 밤, 혼자 남겨진 호텔 방에서 연미혜는 모든 걸 내려놓기로 했다. 자신이 정성껏 키운 딸이 다른 여자를 ‘엄마’라고 부르는 날이 와도 더 이상 아프지 않을 것 같았다. 그녀는 주저 없이 이혼 서류를 작성했고, 양육권도 미련 없이 포기한 채 깔끔히 떠났다. 그 순간부터 그들 부녀에게 어떤 관심도 두지 않았다. 오직 이혼 서류가 정리되길 기다릴 뿐이었다. 가정을 잃었지만, 그녀에겐 더 넓은 세상이 기다리고 있었다. 한때 모두에게 무시당했던 그녀는 단숨에 수천억 자산을 가진 여자가 되었다. 그런데 이상한 일이었다. 이혼 서류는 언제까지고 정리되지 않았고, 집에 발길조차 두지 않던 남편이 점점 더 자주 찾아왔다. 그리고 어느 날, 벽에 몰린 그녀를 내려다보며 한때 차가웠던 남편이 낮게 속삭였다. “이혼? 절대 안 돼.”