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I gave up everything for my mate. My scholarship. My future. My mother’s life insurance. I built Levi Weston into hockey’s biggest star… only for him to erase me from his life the moment he reached the top. Now I’m 72 hours away from deportation, drowning in debt, and hunted by the past I thought I’d escaped. Then I meet Seven Calloway. Levi’s quiet, dangerously handsome stepbrother. The league’s infamous Golden Rookie. The man who can’t score… …and the one every pack fears because of the beast he keeps chained inside. My desperate proposal is simple: Fake date me for 24 hours, and I’ll make you the greatest hockey player Canada has ever seen. It was supposed to be a business deal. No feelings. No touching. No falling in love. But every stolen kiss feels real. Every victory brings us closer. And every heartbeat awakens a bond neither of us can deny. Just when I finally choose Seven over the man who destroyed me, our enemies strike. A deadly conspiracy. A stolen future. A pregnancy no one knows about. A tragic accident that steals my memories… …and the son who grows up without knowing his true father. Three years later, the Alpha I forgot walks back into my life. He remembers every promise. I remember nothing. But my wolf… She has never forgotten him. When pretending becomes reality, how do you choose between the man who broke your heart… and the one who never stopped fighting for it?

Claire Fort is a nerd girl, and she is always getting bullied by her high school friends. On her 18 birthday, she wishes that she suffer will be over and there was someone that will help her life. However, there is a popular student and a jock named Jake who always helps her with any struggle. Jake falls in love with Claire at the first sight and is willing to do anything to protect her from all the fellow students who kept bullying her. Then there was an incident that shocked Claire. Her mother Anna was remarried, and she never thought that she would have a stepbrother who turned out to be her bully Ethan Greenwood, Ethan is the most handsome, mysterious, and charismatic student from Claire's high school, and he was her mate. Ethan always rejected Claire, even though he had the vision that Claire was his mate, but he disliked her because she has a weird fashion sense and seemed so nerd, and he kept bullying her. Until finally, Claire entirely changes herself and gains much attention from all the people. But this makes Ethan completely attracted to her, he wants to merge with her, and he is willing to do anything to get together with Claire as his fate mate. But it doesn't stop there, there are so many struggles that Claire has to face in her life. Including the curse that she received from the evil witches and only the two Alphas who can help her. That's Ethan and Jake.

“I will never love you.” She said, giving him a last look of detest. “Don’t worry, I’ll make you...” He said as he kissed her neck. She tried to push him away but he held her arm, nuzzling, “I’ll wait for the moment when you’ll beg me to take you to the deepest depth of pleasure.” *** When two Alphas with an inability to love destined together unexpectedly as mates then their distinctive territories would only serve as an excuse to arise resentment because none of them would leave their pack. The egoistic Lucille Dayle would never step down and so does Leonel Alvarado who caprice for a mate. When one urges to shatter their baseless bond while the other wants to forge one, this would lead to the labyrinth of darkness and seduction. Lucille would endure all tortures to save her pack from the blood thirsty lunatics but Leonel would reach the depths of hell to possess what belongs to him too. In the possession of power and pride, who will bend its knees first?

Life wasn't that good to Moriah as her groom decided against the marriage and left two hours before the wedding began. As if life hadn't been satisfied being cruel to her as it yet gave her another huge blow as she ended up marrying her sworn enemy. For her to salvage her reputation and that of her family, she has to walk down the aisle and marry the substitute groom. Walking down the aisle, she saw the man waiting for her. He was her archenemy, the billionaire business mogul, her fiancé's best friend, Ethan Miller. The blissful marriage she had been dreaming of with the love of her life turned into a nightmare.

⚠️TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ This story contains mature themes, including consensual BDSM, power exchange, and adult language. It is intended for mature audiences (18+). Some scenes may be intense or triggering for certain readers. This is a fictional work, not intended to offend or misrepresent any person, culture, or country. Blurb: Freya is a gifted surgeon known and loved by everyone in the hospital where she works. one night, her life is thrown into chaos when two bloodied men, hours apart, crashed into her world, demanding her skills... and both hiding deadly secrets. In a world where everyone plays dirty and secrets, can kill, Freya must choose her heart or avoid both calamity.

Eighteen years of hope, one night of shattering betrayal. Beta's daughter Maliyla finally finds her fated mate, the powerful Alpha Erick Lopez, only to be publicly rejected just hours later. Humiliated and cast out by her entire pack, she is forced to run, barely escaping a fatal attack. But fate isn't finished. Rescued by a rival pack, Maliyla meets the one man who makes her heart beat again: a powerful second-chance Alpha. Her first mate broke her; her second mate wants to claim her. Can Maliyla heal enough to choose a new life, or will the ghost of her rejection haunt her forever?

Anna Pope arrives at Yale believing in the black and white of love. Perfect, sweet and cute. Not reckless. And definitely not backstabbing. She has a boyfriend only three hours away, an already planned future and a rule she has never broken. Being faithful. But then, she is forced to live in the glass-walled penthouse of Andre Clark, her boyfriend’s best friend, heir to a billion-dollar empire and the one man who has always looked at her like he knows something no one else does. And when the lines between them start to fracture, Anna discovers that Andre Clark has battles of his own and that she has just been drawn into them.

After 8 years, Shane met his highschool crush; Nicole Colgate but this time, they met as a detective and a murderer. Nicole allegedly murdered her husband. Shane has just 48 hours to unravel the truth. He put away all sentiments and dug into the case. All evidence pointed at Nicole as the culprit. The most convincing evidence was that Nicole, who was a renowned writer, brutally murdered her husband in a replica of the murder in her latest book. After Nicole's imprisonment, Shane's gut feeling persisted. He visited Nicole in prison and took the call to re- investigate. He was caught up in the embers of his undying passion for Nicole as he unveiled the truth

Condemned as a witch. Thrown into a bloodsport. Hunted by beasts who want to claim, break, or kill her. Branwen Mosswood spent her life serving pints and saving every copper to escape the Walled City's cruelty. She dreamed of a quiet cottage. Freedom. Peace. Instead, she stabbed a nobleman who got too handsy... and was sentenced to the Wilder Games, a brutal forest arena where thirty "criminals" are forced to survive thirty days while being hunted by five savage shifter Warlords: 🦁 Hadrian Ironpaw - the prideful Lion King 🐺 Fenrick Bloodhowl - the feral Wolf beast 🐻 Torren Brokenbone - the berserker Bear 🐆 Zarrk Shadowprowl - the stalking Panther 🐅 Nythor Frostbite - the northern White Tiger prince If they catch her, they can claim her, body, blood, and soul. Branwen has no intention of becoming anyone's prey. She'll fight. She'll bleed. She'll unleash every forbidden spell in her bones. Because she won't just survive the Games... She'll bend the beasts to their knees Tap in! Updates multiple times weekly! This is the first in a series!

Caspian Henderson has been rigid and restrained throughout his six-year marriage to Juliet Bennett, and their life together feels dull and uneventful. Even their nights together feel like a chore with a set time. He arrives on the dot, does what he came for, and leaves. Everyone in their social circle believes he's the kind of man who will never bend for any woman. That was true until a month ago, when he returned with an orphaned girl who claims to have saved his life. Her name is Willow Everly. She's cold and unapproachable—the polar opposite of Juliet, who has been doted on all her life. Juliet's girlfriends attempt to warn her. "That young woman looks like a handful. You'd better keep an eye on your husband." Juliet beams. "Don't worry. Caspian doesn't even waver when I tease him. There's no way he'd be interested in that delicate little thing." Yet in just a few days, she finds out just how wrong she is.