Gumball Neighborhood

“You know I could end you. Right here, right now.” “No you won’t. You would have done that in the last three seconds if you wanted to, Angel…, but you’ve chosen to let me go.” His deep blue eyes darkened as his gaze threatened to burn me for eternity for my web of lies. “What makes you so confident, Jade?.” ~ Angel Axton is anything but your regular neighborhood artist. He loves his art, his beloved niece and his family, but his inner instincts kick up a notch when a new addition to the family arrives in a business suit, with a fix it attitude and a very mysterious aura. Knowing only luxury her whole life, Elena Chantel is traumatized when a single dark night takes her parents away in cold blood and turns her entire existence into a joke. From the pampered and loved daughter, she drops her flowers for a sword and signs a pact with a Ruthless Mafia lord. A final assignment as a nanny brings her closer to tasting revenge and delivers her into the Axton family a family with enough secrets to keep the city on their toes. Dedicated to her purpose, Elena is determined to turn a blind eye to raw male gorgeousness that drips from Angel Axton, the hot second son of the Axton family which threatens to deliver her to his bed. But when things take a hideous turn and her mission starts to reveal secrets of not only the family she had invaded but also secrets that questions her very existence, Elena wonders if she’d traveled too far, if there was still a way home.”

Bridget was born out of a teen mistake of her mother and her mother in the process of proving that she was not a failure put a tight leash on her and wanted her to be perfect no matter what. Bridget was kept from the outside world and the first time she would step outside, she also made the same mistake as her mother as she ended up getting pregnant for Mike, her neighborhood friend when she got admitted to the university. She couldn’t contact him and had to live with her cross as her mother abandoned her and baby ended up dead. She became a neurosurgeon after ten years and her past came rolling into her life as she crossed path with her mother and Mike, who was still interested in her. Will she be able to forgive them? Will she let Mike back in her life?

Rafe Sullivan Underson, the king of Alphas, rumoured to be a beast had become more violent, heartless after losing his soulmate through a tragic incident. Desperate to seek avenge for his mate's death, Rafe captured all the possible killers of his mate. Following as a pawn, Rafe claimed the other Alpha's daughter aka princess Seraya Quinley who lived in the neighborhood kingdom on the deal that she would be sent back to her family if her father proves himself innocent. Young, stubborn and chivalrous, Seraya Quinley had never loathed someone more than Rafe in her life. He turned her his slave, his toy and sole property to rip off her Alpha pride. But what will happen when these two Alphas will begin to have feelings for each other despite their blossoming hatred? Is it possible to love your mate's killer?

They say the devil wears a three-piece suit. Mine wore a ring stamped with a golden lion, the symbol of the Ricci mafia. It was on a night of fire and ashes that my life changed. My name was Alaya, and I was just a girl among many others, born in the alleys of a neighborhood where poverty poisons you from the cradle. My mother, sick, had only me... and the debts. That night, they came. They knocked on the door. Three men in black. Not a word, just an envelope, and a chilling phrase: — "Your daughter is still a virgin, isn't she? The boss pays dearly for that." I had no choice. His name was Santino Ricci. Cold. Magnetic. Dangerous. The head of one of the most powerful families in Italy. He looked at me like one looks at precious merchandise. Then he said: — "You will be my wife. No matter how you feel." And I signed my condemnation. This marriage was not a union... but a gilded cage. I learned to survive among snakes. I saw death. I saw blood. I heard the screams of girls who, like me, had been sold. But what they had not anticipated... was that the little broken virgin would eventually bite back.

When I was a kid my entire family committed suicide. Weird, I know. Unfortunately, they thought themselves as unfit to live and ended their life. They had gotten themselves stuck in something deep and dark with a couple of the demons around our neighborhood and their contract was coming due. So at the age of only 13, I was left to fend for myself and survive in a world full of werewolves and demons. ~ I am Lisa Summers and my family was once one of the most powerful werewolf packs in North America. That is, however, only because of a contract made by a demon. After their deaths, the pack diminished to almost nothing. The spell cast upon the pack members had been lifted and they saw no reason to stick around. I was left with no one to support me and I was f****d to find my own way through life. My title as the Alpha's daughter slowly slipped back to Omega in a matter of hours. Nobody wanted anything to do with me. I was a freak in their eyes. They were embarrassed of me, I humiliated them. I was supposed to be strong and lead the pack when her parents couldn't and I wasn't able to. I was an Omega at heart. I always had been, no matter the spell the demon put on everyone. I was an Omega and they were finally beginning to see that. I was weak, pathetic, unloved, and an outcast. Everyone despised me. People who I thought of as family members disowned me. For the first time in my life I was completely and utterly alone. Until I met him. He is the one for me . Only him.

“Aurora, I cannot do this”. “Arthur, please. This….is… my last wish”. She managed to say. “Because of your disobedience, you will be reborn with a mate you and your wolf will disagree on.” **************** Natalie, a fresh college graduate lived peacefully in her little neighborhood until the day she crossed paths with him. Ethan Blackwood popularly known as Ethan Woods thinks it is the biggest joke by the universe when the moon goddess paired him the Alpha of Arkhills Pack with a human:the weakest of them all, after waiting for a mate for 6 years. What happens when Ethan finds out that his Beta Kael, who already has a mate, is also attracted to his human mate? Could it be that Natalie is also Kael's mate?

Grace Turner was the picture of suburban perfection—devoted wife, PTA president, and quiet survivor of a loveless marriage. But when her husband’s financial collapse drags her family into ruin, she teams up with her two closest friends for one desperate, reckless act: robbing a neighborhood grocery store. What they didn’t know? The store is a front for a brutal crime syndicate. Now, with the gang’s blood money in their hands, the women are given two choices—work off the debt, or disappear. For Grace, survival means submission to their mysterious leader, Cain Russo—a man as dangerous as he is magnetic. Cold-blooded and commanding, Cain makes it clear: she belongs to him until the debt is paid. But lines blur when power games turn into obsession, and desire burns hotter than fear. As Grace is pulled deeper into Cain’s violent world—and his bed—she’ll have to decide what’s more dangerous: the gang that owns her… or the man who’s claimed her.

“Marry me.” He said in a serious tone. “I’ve been owned once. Never again.” she reminded him, but mostly it was for herself. He got closer, pulling her towards him in a gentle approach, then whispers in her ears. “Let me belong to you then.” _____ Camila Torres gave her everything to the Carter family, to her beloved husband Jaxon Carter. She was slave to his siblings and parents for thirteen good years. Because she was poor, and they took mercy on the poor girl. Does that means she should become a slave?? Camila takes off to a fancy neighborhood not so far from her former home with her cousin's savings, but now she has do work hard to maintain that lifestyle and give her son the best life without the Carters. There she meets a mysterious neighbor who is hot, and wants Camila. Nico Romano has the power to destroy the Carters, and Camila is his perfect weapon. But the more he touches her world, the more she sinks into his skin. She's not the pawn he expected. When her ex returns for custody, her son is kidnapped, and long-buried secrets ignite a scandal that could burn the entire Carter empire to ash, Camila must choose: Play by the rules of the rich, or rewrite them all. She left her past behind… but her past refuses to let her go.