Eminence Grise Female Lead Novels & Stories

It was a ghost clawing its way out of the past. Grace strutted into the kitchen like she’d been summoned. She placed her Hermès bag on the granite island like a trophy and removed her sunglasses with all the grace of a stage actress delivering her final line. Then she turned her gaze on Emilia, cool and assessing. “Since when do you eat with the help?” she asked. Emilia’s breath caught, her spine stiffening, but she said nothing. Her eyes darted to Max. His jaw had locked. His hands curled slightly at his sides.

Slate's POV---- I looked back down the stairs searching for the woman who smelled like cedar and honeysuckle. "We have to keep our distance for awhile until we can get them alone to explain to them what is happening," Minerva whispered beside me. I glanced at her to see a smile plastered on her face but eyes searching for her mate. I took another look across the bottom floor when I caught the eye of a beautiful human. She had blonde hair and piercing green eyes. She had a simple lavender dress that hugged all of her curves just right. "Mate," said Erebus.

I could see Boris's smug grin falter for a moment, and whether it was due to my lack of enthusiasm or the underlying tone of indifference in my voice, I couldn't tell. Count Gaius cleared his throat, pulling my attention back to him. "And lastly," he nodded towards the female wolf in Kinnison's embrace, "we have Eris Gravemaw, the eldest daughter of Leon and Trisha." Unlike her brother, Eris exuded tranquility. Her eyes reminded me of the sun, shining with warmth and peacefulness. She had her arms wrapped around my brother's neck, holding on tightly. The sight of them together felt wrong in some uncanny way, like a painting disturbed by a single errant brushstroke.

"That narrows it down to what, a hundred women?" "Fewer than that. She's got red hair, natural. And she's..." Grayson paused, remembering their encounters. "Confident but uncertain. Powerful but seeking surrender. It's a specific combination." "Sounds like you've got it bad." "Maybe." Grayson took another drink. "But first I need Morgan's test results. Then I can move forward." Their food arrived, and they ate in companionable silence for a while. The steak was perfect, but Grayson barely tasted it. His mind kept circling back to the same problems, the same questions.

She was going to do what she wanted, but the fact of the matter is that will she truly be able to give herself over even though she just saw her mate? Probably not. But she was going to try. She turns to peek at Grayson and immediately regrets. Her wolf, Belle, snarls violently, desperate to storm across the hall when Malisha catches sight of Grayson smiling at a young woman. Malisha clenches her fists, forcing Belle down. She cannot give him the satisfaction of seeing her break. She looks away from them, takes a deep breath and gets grafting. Grayson on the other hand can feel her stare at him, and slight pain in his chest, but he ignores it, forcing laughter with the woman beside him. Her

Then Mikael step beside me while I stand in front of the mic and spoke, "HELLO FELLOW GANGMATE, I AM LILIANE TERRANCE AND I AM STANDING HERE TO BE THE NEW QUEEN! I SHALL RULE THIS CASTLE BESIDE THE CARDS AND BRING THE UNDERWORLD'S CROWN TO OUR SIDE! FROM NOW ON, I, THE ROSE EMPRESS, SHALL REIGN THIS WORLD. " I said to them full of confidence. At that moment I decide to embrace my new position and authority. It's a new beginning and I will make everyone fear my name. The Rose Empress, Queen of Scarlet Claw.

Grayson apologized, which irritated me. She got to her feet and slammed my desk three times. "Are you planning on breaking it?" I inquired, irritably. "Not just your desk, but the entire fucking bank, and you'd better watch out for me." With her hand pointing at me, she warns. I was about to respond to her when Grayson stopped me to calm down. "You had better do everything necessary and unfreeze my account before I return." She stormed out of my office, enraged. "Damn she's hot," Grayson exclaimed as soon as the girl left my office. "And she got that beauty even when she was angry." He said it, and I just stared at him, irritated.

He reached across the table, grasping her trembling hands in his, a lifeline of support in her darkest moment. As Noah’s words and comforting touch slowly calmed her racing heart, Grace regained control of her breath. The fog of panic began to dissipate, allowing her to focus on Noah’s next revelation. With a mix of concern and restrained fury in his eyes, he disclosed that he had seen a video from the dash-cam, showing a man mercilessly beating her while wearing a twisted smile. The rage burned within Noah’s gaze as he fought the impulse to unleash his anger on the man responsible for inflicting such pain upon Grace.

Amberleigh found a secret weapon in the war against keeping Grayson’s ass in bed, and it wasn’t just threatening to withhold future sex from him. It came in the form of a beautiful woman with silver hair, bright blue eyes, and a sweet smile, Viola Godwin, aka Grayson’s mother. For such a petite and gentle woman, Viola had no trouble keeping both of the men in her life in line.

I gazed at her longer to get a better look. That was when she also looked at me. “Oh…” Her eye colour… “Suna?” Clairmont stopped beside me. He seemed to follow my gaze when he asked, “Who’s that with Carter?” “Oh, that?” I unconsciously smirked, somewhat excited. I mean… “That, is the revered Minerva Lyle Williams, the female protagonist of this novel!” …What are the chances that I get to meet the female lead here?