Gloria Modern Family Novels & Stories

The day I found out I was a match for my dad—stage four leukemia—I bailed. Mom tore the world apart looking for me, but yeah, she had to watch him go. After that, she drowned herself in research, built a name, even adopted this perfect little angel. We crossed paths again at some fancy leukemia conference she was hosting. I was on the demo table. She took one look and scoffed. "Charlotte Stein, not the time for your crap. Get up and go." The host blinked, stunned. "Dr. Cooper... you know this cadaver?" She actually laughed. "What, she paid you for this stunt?" The host turned ghost-white. "M-Miss Stein passed three days ago..."

If it was my sister being bullied, Mom and Dad would have believed her right away and fought for her without a second thought. However, it did not matter anymore. In my next life, I would pick parents who really cared about me.

My sister-in-law, Cynthia Ziegler, has my name written on her cancer diagnosis report. As such, the entire Ziegler family assumes that I'm the one with cancer. Overnight, my husband, Leonard Ziegler, sends a text message to his mistress, Irene Ludlow. "Our time will soon come! That old bat is about to die at last, so I'll finally be able to marry you!" My grandmother, Amanda Powell, cries and clings onto my hand, begging me not to seek treatment. She is not only discussing with Leonard on how best to split my insurance money after my death but also employing various methods to hasten my death. However, they are all unaware that Cynthia used my medical insurance card when she went for her physical examination. I feign sadness and nod with tears in my eyes. "I won't seek treatment, Mom. Let's not seek treatment no matter who is diagnosed with cancer."

To save my family, I was dying of silver poisoning, my fiancé Marcus, the Alpha who had promised to never abandon me, now wanted to harvest my healthy kidney for my parents' adopted daughter, Celeste. Nobody cares if I live or die So I refused the conservative treatment plan. I injected myself with the witch's life potion. The price? In 72 hours, I would die from complete organ failure. In those three days, I gave my private healing center—the one I'd built with my own hands—to Celeste. Mom and Dad beamed with joy. "Good girl, you've finally grown up. You're taking care of your sister now." Marcus wanted to postpone our wedding to care for Celeste. I accepted it calmly. He praised me for finally being understanding. I even gave up my position as the pack's chief healer to Celeste. My parents and Marcus were so excited they planned to throw her a grand celebration ball. They invited every important person with status in the pack to honor her new role. I was just curious about one thing. After I died, would they shed a single tear for me?

My sister Iris almost died from anemia. The day she was hospitalized, my whole family started blaming me. I'd been frail since birth, so Mom and Dad had always poured all their attention into me. The new school supplies were mine, the new clothes were mine, and even on the birthdays we shared, the cream and chocolate part of the cake always went to me first. I used to hear Iris crying at night. But whenever I tried to comfort her, she just shoved me away. On my twelfth birthday, I came home from school with a perfect score on my test, beaming as I pushed the door open. Mom and Dad's eyes were red, and they looked at me as if I'd done something terrible. “Why can't you ever be nicer to Iris? We give you everything, and you should be thinking about her too.” “The doctor said her health problems are all because of how she feels.” “You're so spoiled, so selfish.” I lowered my head. They didn't know that I was frail because I'd made a deal to take Iris's death for her. Tomorrow, I was going to be erased.

In the tenth year after I had married in his place, my brother, Thayer Ashford, suddenly returned. The whole family fell silent as they looked at him. He yawned as he spoke with careless ease, “I traveled through thirteen countries. I’m exhausted. “Where’s Seraphina? She should be in primary school by now, right? Why hasn’t she come to see me?” Seraphina was Thayer’s daughter. Back then, Thayer had abruptly announced he had a child. Yet on the very day of his wedding, he staged his own death, leaving behind Seraphina and his fiancée, Isolde Fairchild. The Fairchilds belonged to the old-money elite of the city. My parents did not dare offend them, so they decided to package me—fresh out of graduation—and send me to the wedding in Thayer’s place. Over these ten years, I became a competent husband and a responsible father. As my parents watched Thayer’s brazen composure, their gazes shifted toward me. I gave them a faint smile. “Sera went to Novaforge with Isolde.”

Eight years ago, my cousin Wendy Cooper was involved in a drunk driving hit-and-run. Yet, my parents made sure all the evidence pointed toward me. The victim's family waited outside my school every day with gasoline, threatening to die with me. Because of that, the school took away my guaranteed admission to university. That day, my parents and brother all tried to persuade me. "Wendy's terrified. Just give her your spot to make her feel better." I refused, fought back, and even tried to talk them out of it. But the next day, they handed me over to the police themselves. Lance Stewart, my fiance and a powerful business tycoon, had orchestrated it all. As he was afraid I'd run or cause trouble, he personally pinned several charges on me and sent me to an isolated island prison. He left me with no way out. When my sentence began, he made me a promise. "Esme, just endure it for a few years. I'll get you out once Wendy graduates, and then we'll get married."

Nathan Levasseur hatte immer ein perfektes Leben. Als Erbe eines Finanzimperiums, charismatisch und ehrgeizig, bekommt er immer, was er will. Erfolg, Macht, Liebe: alles gehört ihm. An seiner Seite steht Sophia, seine Verlobte, die Perfektion verkörpert. Sie sind das ideale Paar, von allen beneidet. Bis zu dem Tag, an dem alles zusammenbricht. Ein Autounfall lässt ihn gelähmt zurück. Von einem Tag auf den anderen verliert Nathan alles: seine Freiheit, sein Selbstbewusstsein… und Sophia. Sie liebt ihn, sagt sie, aber nicht genug, um diese neue Realität zu ertragen. Sie verlässt ihn ohne einen Blick zurück. Verletzlich in seinem Körper und in seinem Stolz, stürzt Nathan in Wut und Ablehnung. Er lehnt Hilfe ab, verweigert Zuneigung, weigert sich, als ein geminderter Mann gesehen zu werden. Doch Léa, seine ehemalige Assistentin, bleibt. Sie, die in seinen Augen nie gezählt hat, weigert sich zu gehen. Die Monate vergehen. Léa wird zu seinem Halt, die ihn antreibt, sich neu zu erfinden. Doch Nathan lehnt es ab, erneut zu lieben. Er weigert sich zu glauben, dass sie ihn anders als als einen gebrochenen Mann sehen könnte. Also stößt er sie immer wieder von sich, bis auch sie schließlich geht. Aber vielleicht ist es zu spät, um das, was er zerstört hat, zu reparieren. Vielleicht gibt es Fehler, die sich nicht verzeihen lassen. Oder vielleicht… hat die Liebe doch noch eine Chance zu existieren, selbst inmitten der Asche der Vergangenheit.

Tara und Mike haben sich nicht ausgesucht. Eine arrangierte Ehe verbindet sie und zwingt sie in ein Zusammenleben, das so brennend wie explosiv ist. Sie, kühn, hartnäckig, will diesen Mann mit dem feurigen Blick zähmen, diesen kalten, jähzornigen Ehemann, der seine Verletzungen hinter einer Mauer aus Eis verbirgt. Er, geplagt von seinen Ängsten, zerfressen von Eifersucht, kämpft gegen die Unruhe an, die diese aufsässige Frau in ihm weckt. Zwischen Auseinandersetzungen und Anziehung wird ihr Alltag zu einem Schlachtfeld, auf dem jedes Wort eine Waffe und jeder Blick eine Provokation ist. Tara will ihn verstehen, ihn zwingen zu lieben. Mike will sich vor ihr schützen, aber am Ende brennt er vor Verlangen nach ihr. In diesem Krieg, in dem sich Liebe und Hass umschlingen, findet der wahre Kampf woanders statt: zu lernen, Vertrauen zu schenken, zu respektieren, zu heilen. Aber wenn zwei verletzte Seelen aufeinanderprallen, kann man wirklich auf Frieden hoffen … oder nur die Asche einer unmöglichen Liebe ernten? Die Herausforderungen einer Prinzessin

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