Erin Ashford Nude

I stare at the email on my screen, unable to move my fingers. Tomorrow is our company's crucial product launch, and I just learn that the patent for the algorithm I spent three years developing is now filed under Matthew Ashford's new assistant, Sophie Bennett. I storm into Matthew's office to confront him. Sophie sits on his desk with her legs crossed, looking completely innocent. She claims that she filled out the form by mistake. "It's just a clerical error. The patent still belongs to the company. What's the big deal?" Matthew stands up from his chair, positioning himself in front of Sophie. I can't believe what I am hearing. "Matthew, this is my research!" "Emma, you're thirty-five. Why are you picking a fight with a twenty-three-year-old intern?" He frowns. Then, he turns to Sophie. "Starting tomorrow, you're the new CTO. Emma needs… some time off." I'm utterly stunned. A decade of marriage and five years dedicated to building a company together have been shattered by a few casual words from him. Thirty minutes later, Sophie posts a photo on social media of herself sitting on Matthew's lap. They are both clinking champagne glasses. "So lucky to have the best boss ever. I'll make sure to be his loyal kitten." Below that, Matthew leaves a comment—three red heart emojis. I shut my laptop and pick up my phone. "Hello. Is this Mr. David Langley from Novara Group of Sundale Valley? This is Emma Whitmore. I've changed my mind. I'm ready to join you." I pause. "And by the way, about that unreleased algorithm upgrade, I have the complete technical blueprint. Make me an offer." Later, I fly to Tallisport with an eight-figure check in hand, while Matthew goes frantic trying to find me.

He was her only escape… or so she thought. [{EXCERPT}] "MARRY ME!" Alana shouted just as he reached the door. Roman stopped mid-step. Slowly, he turned, amusement flickering in his cold eyes before a low, cruel laugh slipped past his lips. “Seems you’ve finally lost all sense,” he said when the laughter faded. He stepped closer, his towering frame swallowing the space between them as she tilted her head to meet his gaze. “What makes you think you can make such a bold request, Alana?” he murmured, his cold fingers brushing against her lips. A shiver ran through her, stealing her voice for a moment. Then she straightened, her fists tightening at her sides. “Because I’ll be the best wife you could possibly ask for,” she said, forcing confidence into her tone as a small smile curved her lips. Roman tilted his head, a dark smirk forming. “Is that so?” he whispered, his hand slipping beneath her dress as she gasped. –––– After escaping the suffocating grip of her abusive family, Alana believes she’s finally free. But freedom comes at a price. Roman Ashford is everything she should avoid. A cunning billionaire. New York’s most eligible bachelor. A man whose name alone unsettles the entire business world. One unexpected encounter pulls her into his orbit, binding her to him in a dangerous arrangement as his fake girlfriend for thirty-one days. But just as she begins to find her footing, her past comes back to choke her. To secure the inheritance her late father left behind before her mother claims it, Alana must find a husband. With time running out, she makes a reckless decision and turns to the one man she should never trust, making a deal that could ruin her utterly.

Sera Ashford is a Null—a walking void where magic and memory go to die. Dogs hate her. Spells slide off her skin. And the supernatural world would kill to own her blood. But Sera doesn't know any of this. She just knows she got fired from her diner job for "creeping out the customers." Then she meets Kael Valerius in a rain-soaked alley. Kael is a Voidborn—the first vampire, cursed for nine hundred years to hear the screams of every life he's ever taken. Witches he burned. Kings he betrayed. A little boy with dark curls who just wants his mother. The voices never stop. They never forgive. And they've been driving him slowly, exquisitely mad. But when Kael touches Sera, the screaming stops. Desperate for silence, he offers her a contract: stand at his side during the Conclave of Thorns—a gathering of every bloodline, coven, and pack with a grudge—and he'll pay her enough to erase her debts. One month. Then freedom. The deal shatters the moment their hands meet. Sera doesn't just silence Kael's curse. She absorbs it. Now the voices scream inside her skull. Ghosts wearing familiar faces crawl out of the walls. And a dead woman named Margot—Kael's former Tether, who clawed out her own eyes—whispers warnings in the dark. Trapped on Kael's estate, bound by a curse that will tear her mind apart if she strays too far, Sera has thirty days to master the deadly politics of immortals, survive the hungry ghosts inside her, and uncover the truth Kael buried with Margot. Because the curse doesn't just collect the dead. It remembers how they loved him. And in a world where regret is a hungry god, Sera might be the only one who can end the feast—or become its next meal.

“Give me your hands,” he ordered, coldly. I froze, watching him loosen his tie as he walked closer. Something about him felt… off. Mean. Distant. My throat went dry, but I gave him my hands anyway. He gripped my wrists—tight enough for my pulse to throb under his fingers. He wrapped the tie around them and pulled, dragging me up the bed like an animal on a leash. My back hit the headboard. Before I could react, he tied the other end of the tie to the frame. Then he reached for the veil on the nightstand. “What are you doing?” I asked, heart racing. He didn’t answer….just placed the veil over my head like I was a doll. “Making sure I don’t see your face and wish it was hers,” he said, unbuttoning his shirt. I blinked. “Hers?” He leaned in. His jaw clenched. “Your twin sister,” he said. “I wanted her. Not you.” His words felt like someone yanked the floor right under me. “I should be with her,” he added cruelly. “Loving her. Worshiping her. Not stuck with a knockoff pretending to be my wife.” I couldn’t breathe. My hands fought the tie, but it was useless. I was trapped, veiled and bound. Lucian didn’t want me. He wanted ‘her’ instead. —------------- Losing her clinic was devastating. Facing eviction was worse. But accepting a mysterious nursing job? That was desperation at its finest. What Scarlett Ashford didn’t expect was that her patient would be her terminally ill twin, the same sister she’d cut ties with. And Lucian Montgomery, her sister’s cold billionaire husband, offered her a proposition far beyond medical care. He wanted her to be his surrogate. Scarlett wonders—what twisted melodrama has she gotten herself into?

I spent two years drowning in guilt for an accident that wasn't my fault. Two years watching my husband transform into a monster who blamed me for the paralysis a drunk driver caused. Two years sacrificing pieces of myself for forgiveness I'd never earn. And then Adrian made one request that shattered what little dignity I had left. His birthday wish: Two weeks in Italy. His two best friends. My body. He wanted me to give them what he could no longer provide. I said yes because I didn't know how else to survive his threats, his manipulation, his systematic destruction of everything I used to be. What I didn't expect was how they'd look at me when I agreed—like I was cheap, disposable, exactly as worthless as I'd always believed. Matteo Greco touched me with hands that worshipped while his words cut deep, the Italian architect whose warmth turned ice-cold the moment I knocked on his door. Kian Ashford used me like I was nothing while his grey eyes promised I could be everything, the lawyer whose control shattered the same night mine did. They broke me completely. And broke their rules together with their hatred for eachother. Because Kian isn't just a lawyer—he's a Werewolf Alpha in a three-piece suit and a racer at night. Matteo isn't just an architect—he's a Lycan Alpha hiding behind Italian charm and motorcycle leather. And somehow this completely human woman triggered something in both of them that should be impossible. Mate bonds don't lie. But neither do the species that have been enemies for centuries. A dark paranormal romance that will leave you breathless, aching, and absolutely dripping. This is not a gentle love story...this is brutal, beautiful, and will wreck you in the best possible way.

I was the daughter of the Ashford Pack Alpha — the most beautiful she-wolf in the entire southern territory. Alphas lined up to pursue me, and I couldn't be bothered to give any of them a second glance. Until my best friend dared me: "Sera, I've got a bet for you. Think you can make my brother Kieran fall for you? Win, and I'll give you my mother's healing moonstone necklace. Lose, and you hand over that limited-edition sports car you love so much." Countless beautiful she-wolves had tried to get into his bed. Every last one of them had been turned away cold. The very first night after I took the bet, I saved Kieran from a silver poisoning, and spent the rest of that night tangled up with him while he burned through his heat. For the two years that followed, he grew more and more obsessed with me. On the long conference table in the pack meeting room, he pinned me down against the papers. In every room of his private estate, we left traces of ourselves behind. I gradually fell in love with him during countless intimate moments. Until the night only to overhear his conversation with the pack elder. "Alpha, it's time to announce who will be Luna." The Elder's voice was low and deliberate. "Miss Seraphina has been by your side for two years now. According to pack tradition—" "Enough." Kieran cut him off. "She and I were just having fun." The Elder was quiet for a moment. "And your first love? When you two separated, she asked for two years apart to try other partners. Those two years are up now. Isn't it time for her to come back?" "Yes." Warmth finally crept into Kieran's voice. "It's time for her to come back." That was when I realized — his so-called true love was my half-sister. The person I hated most in the world. For two years, I had been just his experiment while he "tried someone else". I turned and walked away without a second thought. But this powerful Alpha went mad — tearing through the entire wolf world searching for me.

Lena Vasquez avait toujours été l’étudiante parfaite… jusqu’à la nuit où elle surprit son petit ami en train de la tromper. Ivre et le cœur brisé, elle s’incrusta dans une somptueuse soirée sur un toit et s’abandonna à un inconnu dévastateur qui la baisa sauvagement contre la rambarde du balcon, lui faisant tout oublier dans des vagues de honte et de plaisir. Le lendemain matin, elle découvre que l’inconnu n’est autre que Damien Ashford : le milliardaire impitoyable qui vient d’acquérir son université et contrôle désormais sa bourse, la seule chose qui l’empêche de tout abandonner. Désespérée pour sauver son avenir, Lena accepte le marché choquant de Damien : devenir son modèle nu exclusif pendant deux mois. Trois nuits par semaine, complètement nue dans son studio privé, sans limites, sans pitié. En échange, sa bourse et ses frais de scolarité sont garantis. Ce qui commence comme une transaction humiliante se transforme rapidement en quelque chose de bien plus dangereux. Sous le regard intense et possessif de Damien, sous ses touches autoritaires, la honte de Lena se mue lentement en un désir interdit. Chaque séance lui enlève bien plus que ses vêtements : elle lui arrache ses défenses. Mais Damien cache de sombres secrets. Ses fiançailles glaciales, le fantôme de sa défunte épouse qui lui ressemblait trait pour trait, et cette sculpture qui pourrait les détruire tous les deux. Un seul accord. Une seule obsession. Lena va-t-elle perdre son avenir… ou rendre son âme à l’homme qui possède déjà son corps ?

SYNOPSIS Ich habe mich an einer reinen Alpha-Hockey-Akademie für Jungen eingeschrieben, um den Mann zu zerstören, der meinen Vater gebrochen hat. Ich hätte nie erwartet, dass zwei Alphas versuchen würden, mein Herz zu beanspruchen. Mein Name ist Eliana Vance. Doch hinter den eisernen Toren der Northfell Hockey Academy bin ich Eli. Ein schmächtiger Beta-Junge. Niemand. Eine sorgfältig aufgebaute Lüge, verborgen unter Kompressionsband und illegalen Duftblockern. Mein Vater war ein legendärer Coach, bis Gregory Ashford ihn vernichtete und unsere Familie in den Ruin trieb. Jetzt bin ich hier, um sein Imperium von innen heraus zu Fall zu bringen. Mein Plan war einfach. Unsichtbar bleiben. Trainieren. Überleben. Warten. Dann kam Theo Ashford. Kalt. Gefährlich. Der Alpha-Kapitän, der das Eis beherrscht wie ein König. Er sollte mein Feind sein. Doch seine Aufmerksamkeit haftet an mir, seine Instinkte kommen mir zu nahe. Als er mich an die Bande drängt und behauptet, ich würde nach ihm riechen, beginnt meine Kontrolle zu bröckeln. Und dann ist da Logan Hayes. Warm. Unerschütterlich. Der Star-Stürmer, der hinter meine Maske blickt und beschließt, mich zu beschützen. Bei ihm vergesse ich den Schmerz. Seine Nähe fühlt sich sicher an, fast wie ein Zuhause, das ich längst verloren habe. Doch meine Tarnung hält nicht mehr lange. Die Duftblocker versagen. Mein Geheimnis droht ans Licht zu kommen. Und zwei mächtige Alphas stehen kurz davor, gegeneinander zu kämpfen wegen eines Mädchens, das sie für einen Jungen halten. Der eine will mich kontrollieren. Der andere will mich retten. Aber ich bin nicht hier, um mich zu verlieben. Ich bin hier für Rache. Und wenn alles zerbricht, werde ich entscheiden müssen, was wichtiger ist. Rache. Oder mein Herz.

J'étais la fille de l'Alpha de la Tribu Ashford – la louve la plus belle de tout le territoire du Sud. Les Alphas faisaient la queue pour me courtiser, et je ne daignais accorder un second regard à aucun d'entre eux. Jusqu'à ce que ma meilleure amie me lance un défi : « Sera, je te propose un pari. Tu crois pouvoir faire tomber mon frère Kieran amoureux de toi ? Si tu gagnes, je te donne le collier de lune de guérison de ma mère. Si tu perds, tu me passes cette voiture de sport en édition limitée que tu aimes tant. » D'innombrables belles louves avaient essayé de se glisser dans le lit de Kieran. Toutes avaient été froidement refusées. La toute première nuit après avoir accepté le pari, j'ai sauvé Kieran d'un empoisonnement à l'argent, et j'ai passé le reste de cette nuit à m'enlacer avec lui pendant qu'il brûlait de fièvre et de chaleur. Pendant les deux années qui ont suivi, il est devenu de plus en plus obsédé par moi. Sur la longue table de conférence de la salle de réunion de la tribu, il m'a plaquée sur les documents. Dans chaque pièce de son domaine privé, nous avons laissé des traces de notre passage. J'ai fini par tomber amoureuse de lui au cours d'innombrables moments intimes. Jusqu'à la nuit où j'ai accidentellement surpris sa conversation avec l'aîné de la tribu. « Alpha, il est temps d'annoncer qui sera Luna. » La voix de l'aîné était basse et délibérée. « Mlle Seraphina est à tes côtés depuis deux ans maintenant. Selon la tradition de la tribu... » « Assez. » Kieran l'a interrompu. « Elle et moi, on s'amuse juste. » L'aîné est resté silencieux un moment. « Et ton premier amour ? Quand vous vous êtes séparés, elle a demandé deux ans d'intervalle pour essayer d'autres compagnons. Ces deux ans sont écoulés maintenant. N'est-il pas temps pour elle de revenir ? » « Oui. » La voix de Kieran s'est enfin adoucie. « Il est temps pour elle de revenir. » C'est à ce moment-là que j'ai réalisé : son soi-disant véritable amour était ma demi-sœur. La personne que je détestais le plus au monde. Pendant deux ans, je n'avais été que son cobaye parce qu'il voulait essayer quelqu'un d'autre. Je me suis retournée et je suis partie sans hésiter. Mais cet Alpha puissant est devenu fou, il a parcouru tout le monde des loups-garous pour me retrouver.