Game Of Inches の小説・ストーリー

Only One Crown One team. One legacy. One crown. Jaxon Reed built his name on control. As captain of the Frost Giants, he turned pressure into power and silence into strength. The league calls him the best to ever wear the jersey. He carries that title like armor. Then Adrian Cruz walks back into his locker room. Adrian was once more than his rival. More than his teammate. He was the one Jaxon loved in secret and the one he let go when fame, fear, and outside pressure closed in. Now a shocking trade forces Adrian onto Jaxon’s team, binding them together under a brutal contract clause neither of them fully understands. On the ice, they are unstoppable. Off the ice, they are unfinished. As the media fuels a ruthless GOAT debate and the billionaire owner pulls strings from the shadows, old wounds rip open. Accusations of betrayal resurface. Secrets about a hidden clause threaten to ruin more than their careers. And the question that has haunted them for three years demands an answer: Who really tore them apart? Forced to play on the same line, Jaxon and Adrian must decide what matters more—protecting their pride or fighting for the love they never truly lost. Because there’s only room for one crown in the league… …but there might be room for two hearts. Only One Crown is a dark, emotional second-chance sports romance filled with forced proximity, buried secrets, fierce rivalry, and a hard-won happily ever after.

It was our sixth anniversary, but he chose that day to end it with me. Alpha Ivan Slade was my fated mate, bound to me by the will of the Moon Goddess. But when his chosen mate returned, carrying his heir, I became expendable. Instead of facing me himself, he sent her, Marissa Rowe, to deliver the final blow. With a smirk, she handed me the divorce papers while cradling her growing belly. For six years, I had waited for Ivan to see me as his true Luna. I believed the bond we shared would be enough. I was wrong. Signing those papers felt like the end of the world, but Marissa wanted to ensure I never had the chance to rebuild. On their private jet, as the plane cruised over the endless mountains, she made her move. I was thrown into the night sky, plummeting to what should have been my death. But I guess fate wasn’t done with me. Because instead of dying, I was reborn… as the mate to the Alpha King.

Serena Vale thought the Moon Goddess had blessed her when she discovered Alpha Kael Thorn was her fated mate. But on the night of their mating ceremony, Kael shattered her world. Before the entire pack, he rejected her… accused her of betrayal… and chose another woman as his Luna. Humiliated and broken, Serena is banished from the pack without mercy. There is only one problem. She’s carrying the Alpha’s heirs. Left to die in rogue territory, Serena expects death—until the most feared creature in the werewolf world saves her. The Lycan King. Cold. Ruthless. Deadly. Lucien Draven has never bowed to anyone… yet the moment he catches Serena’s scent, he becomes obsessed with protecting her. As Serena rises from rejected outcast to powerful Luna Queen, the Alpha who destroyed her begins to realize the horrifying truth: He rejected the wrong woman. Now kingdoms will burn. Because the Lycan King is willing to start a war to keep her. And Serena is no longer the weak girl they once humiliated.

SYNOPSIS: Nancy Coronel is a powerful girl, 5 feet 9 inches tall, of mixed Chinese ancestry, and has an athletic build as a result of her love of sports. She has an attractive, sensual, and modest Asian beauty, but she also has a split personality that suggests the ability to be a strong leader and manager of the family's hacienda. She develops into a valiant warrior willing to fight in the battle against rebellion as she accepts responsibility inspired by her passions as a woman with faith striving to acquire a law degree at the university. When confronted by rebels, Nancy Coronel assumes the person tough guy wisdom of a man to defend the hacienda and the lives and property of her people from torture and assault and her man came to be her partner. She learned that her hidden weakness was falling in love. Jason Steven Chang approaches as a partner and guides, a wealthy and well-known man who works as a covert spy for a significant international organization. He is familiar with the numerous conflicts caused by the opposition's uprising. Despite his knowledge about rebelling workers, he chose to live a life of peace, but they became lovers. Despite being 6 feet and 2 inches tall and stunning, he made her feel insecure about his love interest. She insisted on portraying herself as a tough guy, which he challenged and discredited. She secretly becomes pregnant as a result, and she chooses to leave him behind to begin a new life with her kid. Their paths cross oftentimes. As a single parent of their son, she disregards him. Nancy still displays a dual personality to test him but made her his legal counselor when he is allegedly confronted by his real mission. He still loves her and courts her again to propose marriage.

"You sure wanna taste me?" He laughed. That was the first time, he had smiled. "Wow, you are laughing now.." "Only you make me" My heart raced again, beating my eardrums in its intensity, "Ugh, how do you make me like this?" He came closer, pushing my back to the wall. We were inches apart, our bodies almost sticking to each other and his breath on my lips. "You make me so numb, that I fail to say what I always wanted to" I held my breath. His breathing accelerated, "Only you, Anna. Only you" And the space closed with a kiss.

Diana was rejected by her Alpha mate because she was an Omega , she was framed by her mate's younger brother and girlfriend on the night she got her wolf. Thrown into the dungeon and lost her mother to the false accusation and auctioned off to the highest bidder. The twins who bought her had a strange way of showing their love and she ran away on many occasions, only to be caught and brought back to the hell she was living. On one such flight, she happened to save the life of a wolf who she later found out was the Alpha of the largest and most powerful pack in the clan and worst of all, she was mated to him. She broke off her mate bond with the twins and goes with Alpha Sabastian to his Pack but would have nothing intimate to do with him. Alpha Sabastian is ready to give her the time she wants, hoping she would come to accept their bond and his love, but helps her get revenge for her illtreatment from all her previous mates.. What happens when she finds out that the parents she grew up with were not her original parents but they had rescued her from her birth pack when it was being destroyed and that she is actually the daughter of the great Lycan king Nicolas? What should she do when Alpha Ray her first mate and love comes begging out of regret? And how long will Alpha Sabastian be willing to hold off his consuming desire for her and wait for her to accept him, when his Pack elders are insisting on an heir, foisting another female wolf on him, and he is finding it increasingly difficult to control himself around her?

They ambushed his bride and killed her. His first move? He captured the daughter of a renowned Executor. With unlimited power, vast wealth, and absolute authority, Demi Shire did not just seek justice—he hunted for revenge. He is a legend of cruelty. He strikes down lives with a single blow, his face never changing, his heart never wavering. People fear to speak his name. They tremble in his shadow. They bow before him as if he were a deity. He wanted to kill her. He ached to end her life. But he made a vow. An oath sealed between Heaven and Earth that he could not break. So he chose a fate far worse than death. "I will make her suffer every pain known to the world—sharp as a blade, deadly as poison. I have built my own hell, and in this place... no one escapes."

Hope Daniels has spent her life mastering control, on the softball field, in school, and in the quiet spaces where emotions are better left unspoken. With college within reach and her future finally aligning, everything should feel safe, predictable… normal. Then she falls for Kade Mercer, her best friend’s older brother. He’s distant, unreadable, and always watching her like he already knows how their story ends. What begins as stolen glances and unspoken tension slowly pulls them toward something neither of them can stop. On the night everything shifts, Hope wakes in a world that is not her own. The sky is fractured. The air is alive. And creatures born from nightmares hunt anything that breathes. Stranded together for seven relentless days, Hope and Kade must survive a shifting, brutal realm where instinct is the only law and fear takes physical form. Every battle changes them. Every choice binds them closer. And every night reveals they are being watched by something far more dangerous than the monsters chasing them. But survival comes at a cost. Because when they wake back in their world, nothing is as it was. Time has not moved, but they have. The marks they carry begin to glow. The memories refuse to fade. And the line between worlds is beginning to tear again. Some doors are not meant to close. And some connections were never human to begin with. Hope thought she was fighting to survive seven days in another world. She was wrong. She was being chosen.

Tessa Sterling's life was never Meant to be this complicated. Once the daughter of privilege, she now works double shifts to keep her little sister in school after her stepmother seized control of her late mother's inheritance. When her sister begged her to pick her up from a celebrity concert, Tessa expects nothing but chaos. Instead, she runs into Kingsley Voss–international superstar, billionaire CEO, a global icon and every woman's fantasy. But Kingsley is not what the camera show. Behind his fame hides a secret that could destroy his career–a daughter, whose existence no one must ever know. When fate throws Tessa into his world again, this time as a potential nanny, sparks fly and tempers flare, she loathes his arrogance, his charm, his shameless flirting–but she can't resist the bond she forms with his daughter. Kingsley is torn between protecting his secret and protecting the woman who's turning his world upside down. But the closer Tessa gets to his daughter...the closer she gets to uncovering the secret he's sworn to hide. And when love collides with lies, someone's heart will have to pay the price. Behind every secrets lies a forbidden truth– and behind every man like Kingsley Voss, a woman strong enough to bring him to his knees.

Nell has spent her whole life giving second chances. Third chances. Fourth chances. It's the only way she knows how to survive .Homeless at fifteen. Working her fingers bloody at a corner store. She's never once fought back against a world that keeps knocking her down .Then Lena finds her. A warm smile. A home called Haven House a shelter for lost wolves. For three weeks, Nell believes she's finally safe .But the wolves' kindness curdles. Whispers follow her through candlelit halls. And one night, Nell hears the words that change everything :"She's human. She's nothing ."She doesn't know why Lena's eyes flicker gold. She doesn't know why the moon makes the walls hum. And she doesn't know that the mark burning on her palm is a trap eight years in the making.Because Haven House isn't a shelter. It's a prison.Lena isn't a savior. She's the wolf who killed Nell's parents. And Nell? She's not human. She's the Lunar Omega a creature of impossible power. The kind that doesn't heal. It devours. Now Nell is trapped in a house of wolves who want her gone and an alpha who wants to own her forever. The stolen children Rue, Caleb, and Finn don't know that Lena murdered their real families too. The basement holds a prisoner with Nell's eyes. And the full moon is three days away. They wanted her gone. But when the truth comes out, every wolf in Haven House will bow. The question is: after everything the lies, the betrayal, the blood will Nell still have a fourth chance left to give? Or will the girl who forgives everyone finally learn to forgive herself?