Everything And Nothing

He said he was starving… and I knew that hunger was for me. ~~~ For ten years, Alex Voss has been nothing more than Lena Martinez’s best friend. They’ve shared everything—laughter, heartbreak, late-night secrets. Everything except the one thing they both secretly want. Until one reckless night rips the mask away and Alex can no longer ignore the truth: his so-called best friend has always been his deepest craving. When Lena’s hidden world pulls Alex into desires he never dared confess, Alex is dragged into a world of obsession, jealousy, and forbidden desire. The more he tastes of her, the more he wants, and the harder it is to stop. CAUTION: Steamy, Forbidden and Addictive. This is a full compilation of dangerous desires between best friends who were never meant to cross the line. Packed with tension, jealousy, betrayal, and heart-racing steam, each act peels back another layer of reckless hunger. Perfect for readers who crave forbidden best-friends-to-lovers, explosive secrets, and intoxicating passion that will leave you begging for more.

They took everything from me before I was old enough to remember: my name, my family, my life. Raised as the Ashfords’ scapegoat daughter, blamed, beaten, humiliated while my perfect sister shone, I thought I was worthless. Until a masked stranger broke into my father’s study and called me by a name I had forgotten: Celeste. Vincent Torres is everything the Ashfords pretend to be: powerful, untouchable. He says my life with them is a lie. That I was never meant to be theirs. That he can help me take back my name, my inheritance, my future. All I have to do is marry him. A contract. Nothing more. I’ll become the wife my sister always wanted to be. I’ll infiltrate the world that should have been mine. And together, we’ll destroy the family that destroyed me. But somewhere between the contract and the vows, between the lies and the truth, I forgot the most important rule: Never fall for your weapon. Especially when he might be just as broken as I am.

What happens when the wife he never loved becomes the one woman he can’t afford to lose? -- Lorenzo Gabriel Devlin stopped believing in love and marriage the moment his mother walked out on his father for another man, and when his first love chose her career over him. To him, love was nothing but a lie. But as the eldest son and heir to the Devlin Corporation, duty always came before desire. He needed an heir to carry on the family legacy. So when his father arranged a marriage for him, he had no choice but to agree... even if his heart was no longer capable of loving. Amber Desiree Villanueva, the only daughter of Villanueva Enterprise, never imagined marrying without love, but saving her family’s failing company leaves her no choice. She enters an arranged marriage with none other than Lorenzo Gabriel Devlin. Her role was simple: be the perfect, obedient wife and give him an heir. Amber had prepared herself for a loveless marriage, until she met Lorenzo and fell for him at first sight. She dreamed their marriage could turn into something real, but her hopes were quickly shattered when Lorenzo treated her coldly and refused to even touch her. Still, she tried. And just when she thought nothing would ever change, one fateful night did. But the next morning, Lorenzo didn’t remember a thing. Amber buried the memory deep in her heart, until two weeks later, two red lines appeared on the test. But before she could tell him, Lorenzo’s first love returned. And from that moment on, everything began to crumble. When the pain became too much to bear, Amber made the hardest decision of her life. She left, carrying the one secret that could change everything—Lorenzo’s baby.

“Reject us,” Kellen commanded. “No.” The word slipped from Daciana's lips. The murmurs in the crowd grew louder, shock spreading like wildfire. The triplets’ eyes widened in disbelief, their confident masks slipping. Kellen’s hands balled into fists, his jaw clenched tight as he glared at her. “What do you mean, no?” Axel’s voice broke through the noise, disbelief clear in his tone. “You’ve always hated us. You don’t want this. Reject us!” “I won't reject you” Daciana stood her ground, she had never had this kind of leverage over them before, For years, they had been in control, tormenting her at every turn. But now… now they were at her mercy. They were begging for rejection? That wasn't going to happen. She would make sure they paid for everything they've done. This mate bond they desperately wanted to break…. will not happen! **** When she didn't get her wolf on her eighteenth birthday, Daciana became an element of mockery in her pack. Everybody hated her and the students at school derived joy in bullying and making her life miserable. Daciana has hated the royal triplets all her life. She wanted nothing to do with them, and they equally hated and made her life hell. She wished to have nothing to do with them, but fate played a quick one on her, and she got mated to all three of them. The triplets, having no power to reject her, asked her to reject them, but Daciana, knowing the leverage she had, refused with the sole aim of making them pay for everything they did to her. But how long will she be able to play this game? Will she win, or will she be pulled into their seductive web now that they didn't want to let her go?

Luna Valerie had everything she ever wanted in life. Evan, her dream husband, their little son, a family she could call her own. But the small hope she had of ever winning the love of her life, vanished the day his fated mate stepped foot into the pack. Just when she thought her heart can't break any more than it already has, she pales as her little son runs to Evan's fated mate and calls her 'mommy'. That is the last straw. So with everything she had, she filed for divorce and left with no words. No explanation, no note. Nothing. However, fate seems to have its cruel way with her when she discovers she is carrying their second child. She hates the goddess for playing such a cruel trick on her, for making her leave with a piece of the man she once loved deeply with all her heart, just when she wants nothing to do with him. Yet that does not stop her from loving her child and giving him the world. Years later, she now goes by Detective Val of a supernatural agency that deals with all supernatural creatures and brings justice for all. Now it just so happens Evan's pack is experiencing a case of children going missing. He seeks the help of the supernatural agency for assistance. Detective Val is assigned to the case, to which she has no choice but to go. What will happen with her reunion with Evan and their son upon her return? Will feelings spark to life? Is there a chance of rekindling old memories upon learning that Evan has never taken another luna after she left? Or the fact that nothing has changed with her feelings toward him? Ride the rollercoaster of emotions with me and let's find out!

For ten years, I've served as the lover supporting Catherine Sanders from the shadows. With my help, she's able to save her company from the brink of bankruptcy and eventually gets it listed. On the day before we're about to ring the bell, just as I'm about to propose to Catherine, she introduces her childhood sweetheart, Benedict Shaw. Apparently, he is to take over my position in her life. She thanks me for my contributions throughout the decade, but her company is about to embark on a new journey. That means I'm no longer suitable to stay by her side. As I watch the woman I spent the last ten years loving and sacrificing everything for using a bank card to dismiss me, I feel as though my heart has plunged into the icy abyss. "I spent ten years devoting everything I have to you. In the end, it's nothing but a huge mistake." But Catherine remains blind to the truth. Once I quit my job, her company will cease to exist, just like my love for her.

Being bullied by her peers for being an overweight human has been hard for Neaera. What's worse is when she learns she was adopted. Deciding to run away, she comes to learn she is a werewolf, but not fully. Being found by a pack of mercenaries, she spends the next five years becoming a strong and fierce warrior. Alpha Stryker has spent the last five years in a foul mood. The night his sister left, he has done everything he could think of to find her. When he requests the help of mercenaries to protect his pack from a threat, it is Neaera that shows up. He instantly recognizes her, because he learned before she left that she was his fated mate. Now he will stop at nothing to claim her and protect her from the threat was now targeting her. Will she reveal the truth or do everything to protect her secret? Can she let the past go and accept that the one she used to think of as her brother, is now the mate the Moon Goddess chose for her?

Five years of war, three peace summits. One rule that never changed. Ray Carter and Levi Morgan stay on opposite sides, until the night fate decides otherwise. Ray feels nothing, rules everything and answers to no one. He built his empire on control and his reputation on fear, and he has never once lost either. Then Levi walks into the room. His enemy, his rival. The heir of the pack that took everything from him, his mate. One bond, two men on opposite sides of a war neither of them started. Laws older than their bloodlines demand they reject each other, walk away, and pretend it never happened. But the bond doesn’t care about laws and neither, it turns out, does Ray. Someone already knows their secret and someone who has been waiting for exactly this moment. The question isn’t whether Ray and Levi can survive each other. It’s whether either of them will survive what’s coming and who exactly wants them to find out the hard way?

I was in love with Ethan Black, a brilliant man with big dreams. I gave him my twenties, my body, my loyalty. I worked three jobs while he chased his startup dreams. And when he finally made it, he became a stranger. Then I found out he got another woman pregnant, the same woman who dumped him in college when his family lost everything. That nearly destroyed me. But I stayed. I told myself love was worth it. But nothing could prepare me for the day he left our four-year-old daughter home alone… to go see her. And our little girl died. I buried my child and with her, the woman I used to be. Now, I live for one thing only: Revenge. He took everything from me. Now I’ll take everything from him. He doesn’t know it yet… but I’m not the same woman he left behind. And by the time I’m done, he’ll wish he never met me.

ADESSA: I should have known better that nothing good lasts forever. Especially for someone like me—a lowly, orphaned Omega. The last year has been so perfect that I thought I had finally found my place in this world, right in the arms of my mate, Alpha Kael. Kael chose me to be his Luna out of revenge to the female who broke his heart. His reasons didn't matter to me. And though I knew he could never love me the same way he loved Desiree, I have nothing to complain about. Kael was the ideal mate—the perfect Alpha. I was lucky to be his. I was so immersed in the bubbles of my perfect world that I forgot he was never mine in the first place. When tragedy struck, and he awoke with no memory of us, I found myself alone in the shambles of my dreams, witnessing the man I loved walk away with the woman who had broken him. In the blink of an eye, I was back in the same place I was before I met him. KAEL: My life has always been perfect. I am the Alpha of one of the strongest packs on this side of the country and betrothed to the woman who will be the perfect Luna to stand beside me. So when I woke up with no memory of the last two years of my life, married to a woman I had never met and couldn't remember, I began to question everything around me. I wanted nothing to do with her. She is not the Luna I envisioned to end up with. ¤¤¤¤¤ THIS IS A STANDALONE NOVEL AND NOT CONNECTED TO MY PREVIOUS BOOKS/SERIES.  Follow me on my socials for updates and teasers — author.cassa.m.