Estella Zeehandelaar

On my 20th birthday, my father hosts a dinner for our allied families. He lifts his glass with a smile and turns to his old friend, saying, "It's time my principessa chooses a husband from your sons." Without hesitation, I choose the youngest—Salvatore Carlo. Everyone is stunned. After all, I'm Estella Vinci, the eldest daughter of the Vinci family. I was born into wealth and power, with a father from a long-established Virellian mafia family and a mother from Montavira's ruthless DeNucci bloodline. And yet, I was hopelessly in love with Giovanni Carlo, third son of the Carlo family. In my past life, I got exactly what I wished for. I became his wife. He got what he wanted too. With my father's power, he became the heir of the Carlo family. But after we got married, my adopted sister Eleanor Vinci became his mistress. When my father found out, he was furious. He sent her far away in marriage to Norland. From that day on, Giovanni hated me with everything he had. He drowned himself in nightclubs, night after night, always bringing home women who looked just like Eleanor. He let them mock me and humiliate me. On my birthday, one of them poisoned my cake. I died with hatred in my heart at eight months pregnant. Now that I am reborn, I decide to let them have each other. But the moment I choose Salvatore, Giovanni loses his mind.

"Magkano ang kailangan mo, upang layuan ang anak ko?" tanong ni donya Marsha kay Estella, "hindi kita maaaring tanggapin dahil isa ka lamang dukha! saan ka ba napulot ni Ludwig? sa club? At sinong nakakaalam, kung yang dinadala mo, ay sa anak ko?" Isang sampal iyon para kay Estella. Ang inaasahan niyang maayos na pagtanggap sa kanya, ay magiging isa palang bangungot! Ang akala niya, matapos niyang matakasan ang matandang ipinagkakasundo sa kanya ng kanyang ama, ay magiging maayos na ang buhay niya, hindi pa pala. Kaharap niya ngayon ang isang repleksiyon ng matapobre niyang madrasta. Kuyom ang kamao, nilisan niya ang lugar na iyon, upang hindi na maalipusta pa, ng kahit na sino, sa pamilya ni Ludwig, dala dala ang anak nilang kambal, na hindi pa man naiisilang, ay itinakwil na. "Ako ang bahala sa inyo mga anak. Hindi ko hahayaang may mang-api pa sa inyo, gaya ng naranasan ko," kinakausap niya ang mga bata sa kanyang tiyan. "Babangon ako, at maniningil!" Tiningnan niyang muli ang mansiyon, sa huling pagkakataon. Hinulma niya sa isipan ang sinabi sa kanya ng kanyang biyenan. Saka hilam ng luha ang mga matang lumayo, na hindi alam kung saan tutungo.

Eli Gunnar has been on the run most of his life, after the Alpha of his pack killed his father, blaming him for the death of the Alpha and Beta heirs. Eli was banished at 12 by the Alpha. Less than a year later, attempting to save the only person kind to him in his banishment, Eli was found with a dead Luna Estella in his arms. He was blamed for her death and was hunted until her son, Liam caught him. Only because of Liam's mate, Angel, a Guardian with the gift of tasting deceit, was the real story believed. Liam let him go to start a new life. It's on this journey that he stumbles across his fated mate, only she doesn't have a wolf. Grace is the only child of Alpha Edgar and Luna Paige. For ten years she is spoiled, the darling of the pack. prepared to become the next Alpha, taking over for her father. However, when Grace does not get her wolf, her father changes, becoming angry and distant. When she still has no wolf on her 12th birthday, he banishes her from the pack. She and her mother leave the pack and Paige's mate. Living in the human world, Grace watches the ruptured mate bond slowly kill her mother, leaving her alone in the world at age 16. However, on her 18th birthday she not only awakens with a wolf, but a Guardian. Now, hunters are coming. They have heard of Guardians and their strength, and they want them dead. Grace will have to trust Eli as her mate and join forces with the other Guardians who she feels a strange connection to defeat this new foe and begin the life she was always meant to have – the leader of her own pack.