I Was Quiet But I Was Not Blind

Auri Meadows, 19, was waiting for the day her mate would reject her. After an attack on her pack, she had been left blind and scarred. With how she looked, she knew no one would want her and she would be free to live out the secret life she had built. But Alpha Logan wasn’t about to let his mate go. Not after all the years he had searched for her. But as her secrets are revealed, their mate bond continues to be tested and leaves both of them wondering if the Moon Goddess turned their back on them.

"Repeat that, Bella. Say 'no' again, and I promise you that'll be the last thing you ever say on this earth," Damien Alejandro says, pointing a gun to my head. His icy, cold voice sent shivers down my spine, and somehow, his voice scared me more than the gun pressed to my temple. “I…I…I do," I stammered, the words tasting like bile on my lips. “You may now kiss the bride," the priest announced. --- Isabella is kidnapped on her wedding day and taken to an undisclosed location, where she is forced to marry a stranger, Damien Alejandro, who turns out to be a dangerous Mafia king. He claims her father sold her to him, but there's one problem—she has no father. She promised herself she wouldn't fall for the enemy, but what's a girl to do when a six-foot-three, gorgeous man shows a soft spot for her and can't keep his hands off her?

The Moretti Family's Thanksgiving party was in full swing downstairs—crystal clinks, fake laughs, classic mafia gloss. Meanwhile, I was curled up in a servant's room on the third floor. Jackson Moretti's wife. Legally, anyway. My hands were ice. I gripped the ultrasound report like it could anchor me. Three heartbeats. Strong, steady. It was supposed to be a surprise—his big Thanksgiving gift. To the outside world, Jackson was a polished Stanford grad, running a top-tier consulting firm in San Francisco. But behind the scenes? He ran the Moretti empire—cold, calculated, pulling strings in the West Coast's darkest corners. Three years of marriage and we barely spoke, but I still clung to the hope that maybe... maybe there was something real left. Then I heard him downstairs. "You really not letting your wife come down?" "Isabella?" He laughed. "She'd kill the vibe." Another voice chimed in. "Lina's back, right? Wild you married her twin. Which one do you actually like?" Jackson didn't miss a beat. "Isabella's just a stand-in. Quiet. Predictable. I could tell her to drop dead and she'd say 'okay.'" "So when are you ditching her?" "Dunno. She thinks she matters. I'm just playing her." I slapped a hand over my mouth to muffle the sob. A minute later, I was heading downstairs, numb. I brushed my fingers over my belly. "Sorry, babies," I whispered. Triplets. His. He thought I was blind. Weak. Stuck. What he didn't know? A quiet woman, once she snaps—she can burn it all down.

I go deaf in an attempt to save James Duncan. He falls to his knees before my parents and begs them to let me marry him. He says he'll care for me for life. He finally passes his five-year test, but he sleeps with his lover before our wedding. He does it before my very eyes. He clamps a hand over her mouth and says, "Be quiet. Don't wake Layla up." His lover giggles and nibbles on his palm. "What's there to be afraid of? She's deaf; she can't hear us." James doesn't know that I've already regained my hearing. He and his lover are also unaware that their behavior is being livestreamed.

My daughter was born with silver poisoning in her blood—passed down from me—which made it hard for her to sense her wolf, and even harder for her to shift. I worked tirelessly, taking on every job I could, to earn enough money to find a cure for her. One night during a late shift, I saw her. My daughter, dressed like a princess in an elegant, Silverlight-woven gown, sat at a table in a high-end restaurant. With her was my mate—supposedly bedridden and paralyzed—wearing a tailored haute couture suit. Across the table sat the famous she-wolf of our pack, the daughter of a respected elder. They had ordered a lavish dinner, the bill totaling over $500,000. After the meal, I overheard my mate ask our daughter, “You remember how to tell the story, right?” She nodded and replied, “Yes. I’ll tell Mom we were working as werewolf junk collectors all night, collecting waste paper crates, and in the end, we only earned enough to buy half a loaf of bread.” My mate smiled, pleased with the answer. The she-wolf then gifted my daughter an entire collection of newly released moonstone jewelry. Before they left, my mate tipped each waitress $5,000. I stood frozen, tears falling as the truth shattered my heart: my mate—and even my beloved daughter—had been lying to me. Even in dormancy, my wolf mourned. A colleague saw me crying and asked what was wrong. I forced a smile and said, “I’m just happy. I got $5,000 tonight. It would’ve been even better… if it hadn’t come from my mate, the one who’s supposed to be paralyzed and lying in bed.” No one knew what I had sacrificed to be his mate. I waited for an apology. But it never came. So I made my decision. I called my father—the one who had been waiting all these years for me to return as his heir. When I disappeared from their lives, just as they had always secretly wished... That’s when they finally began searching for me across the world.

Keira Nathania, si gadis introvert berumur 16 tahun yang tumbuh besar di sebuah panti bernama Dream High. Walaupun serba kekurangan ia sangat senang tinggal di tempat itu. Karena baginya tempat itu mengajarkan arti dari kesederhanaan, kesabaran, dan keikhlasan. Kasih sayang yang teramat cukup pun ia dapatkan dari panti itu. Di sekolah, dia tidak pernah membuat masalah atau mendapat masalah, baik secara akademis, hubungan dengan teman-temannya, maupun hubungan dengan guru-gurunya. Namun, kondisinya yang baik-baik saja seketika berubah. Bermetamorfosa menghadirkan luka dan lara. Tak sesuai keinginannya. Keira harus menerima pil pahit, bahwa ia telah dibully oleh temannya, Laura. Semua ini bermula ketika Keira mengetahui fakta bahwa Laura menjadi penyebab meninggalnya Tsania, teman Keira. Untuk menutupi kejahatannya, Laura pun terus mengancam Keira. Pembullyan, kesedihan, dan cemoohan yang dirasakan Keira dari orang yang selalu merisaknya, tak disangka mengantarkannya kepada peristiwa besar yang menegangkan dan mengubah kehidupannya. Dan ketika itu Keira tak disangka menyerah akan hidupnya bunuh diri di atas jembatan dan menenggelamkan diri ke laut. Namun seseorang telah menyelamatkannya. Sang kakak, Karin yang merupakan kembarannya Keira. Bertahun-tahun lamanya ia hadir dan menolong Keira yang sudah tenggelam di laut. Namun Karin berakhir dengan kehilangan ingatannya sedangkan Keira selamat. Akhirnya Karin yang disangka meninggal padahal ia lupa ingatan dan sembunyi di suatu tempat. Di sisi lain Keira diangkat menjadi anak angkat ibu Karin yang sedang mencari informasi tentang saudara kembar anak angkatnya. Keira menjalani kehidupan sebagai Karin, ia merasa bahagia. Hadirnya dua sahabat yang peduli dengannya dan dua sosok pria yaitu Rakha dan Nathan yang mewarnai hari-harinya. Akan tetapi dibalik kebahagiaan, kegelisahan pun cukup menghantui Keira. Permusuhan dimulai kembali ketika sosok teman lama pindah ke sekolah yang sama dan berusaha untuk membocorkan identitas Keira yang sebenarnya. Namun tak disangka sang kakak yaitu Karin muncul kembali dan menyelamatkan sang adik dari Laura yang selalu menindasnya.

For someone who nearly dies because of an accident that wipes the memories of her 23 years of existence - the only thing that Sammia Avileigh can do is to depend on everything that her family told her. With the help and support from them, she did her best to live a normal life. She follows everything that her parents told her about who she was, what she likes, what she does, what she wants, what's her favorite, how she dresses, what she hates, and what she's not good at. A year later, she finally recovers, she's happy with her life despite forgetting those memories that define her. But her almost perfect life turns upside down when she saw a strange note on the empty abandoned room on the back of their house. 'Aliano Silvanus Rivvero, you need to kill him. Remember that.' What does the note mean? Why does she feel like it is connected to her? And if that's the case- why would she kill the man she is bound to marry? The man that she really likes, according to her parents? They say a memory can be a star or a stain, and Sammia Avileigh didn't know that the latter defines her lost memories. And that's, what they will never let her know...

Grace, the golden child as a Beta's daughter, defied all expectations by choosing Ethan—the disgraced Alpha's son—even after he inadvertently caused her father's death. She stood by him, pulling him from the depths of despair. But when Ethan finally annihilated the rival pack responsible for his own father's murder and brought back their Alpha's daughter, Caroline, his vengeance spiraled into madness. Now, Grace must face the harrowing truth: can she still love the man who has become a monster?

It is an old tale that werewolves have only one mate whom they protect, cherish, and die for but what if it is possible to have more than one mate? Ahana was an average human who barely was surviving her ordinary life until her fate threw her in between two werewolf brothers who were willing to rip each other throat for her, one wanted her to be his, and the other despised her as she unknowingly created a feud between them now it will cost her something but at what price she will earn her true mate? Will she be able to resolve their issues and mend their relationship and in the process fell for one of them? Does she has two mates and have to make a choice? What has destiny stored for her?

I did three things when I had made a decision to leave Alpha James. The first thing I did was throw all the precious gifts he had given to me. The second thing I did was secretly donate the wooden house he had built for our future and tear up the ceremonial dress that was custom-made for me on our marking day. The third thing I did was go to the Northern Territory to guard our pack, so I cast all ties with the entire pack and disappeared into the tribe. What he didn’t know was that I had quietly planned my departure while he was out hunting and spending countless nights at the Moon River with Doris, his childhood sweetheart. I became the ideal Luna he was hoping for, considerate and tolerant. Later, he lost control and asked me: “Why aren’t you angry? Don’t you love me anymore?” I lowered my head in silence and announced my decision to leave after seeing the ambiguous messages Doris, James's sweetheart, had sent to me.