Jade Necklace Pendant

J’ai cru que ma vie s’arrêtait le jour où j’ai poussé les portes de l’église. Il faisait beau ce jour-là. Un soleil de juillet qui traversait les vitraux en longs rubans dorés. Ma robe était blanche, mes cheveux étaient coiffés, mes invités étaient là. Cent cinquante personnes. Cent cinquante paires d’yeux braquées sur moi. J’attendais. Une heure. Deux heures. Thomas n’est jamais venu. À la place, j’ai reçu un message. « Elle est enceinte, désolé. » Je ne sais plus si j’ai crié. Je ne sais plus si j’ai pleuré. Je me souviens seulement de ce silence, de ce vide, de cette honte qui m’a engloutie. Pendant un an, je me suis cachée. Pendant un an, j’ai vécu en pyjama, à manger des pizzas surgelées, à regarder les mêmes séries en boucle. Pendant un an, j’ai cru que l’amour était une blague, que les hommes étaient des menteurs, que la vie ne valait pas la peine d’être vécue. Puis un jour, j’ai ouvert une enveloppe. Une invitation. Le gala du Domaine Kensington. Thomas y serait, avec sa femme, son enfant, son bonheur volé. J’ai décidé de me venger. J’ai décidé d’engager un gigolo. Je ne savais pas que ce gigolo était un milliardaire. Je ne savais pas qu’il avait lui-même signé un contrat, pour protéger son héritage, pour faire croire à son grand-père qu’il n’était pas seul. Je ne savais pas que ce mensonge allait durer des années, et que, dans les ruines de ce mensonge, allait naître quelque chose de plus fort que tout : l’amour. Ce livre raconte cette histoire. La nôtre. Celle d’un contrat, d’une clause absurde, d’une promesse brisée et…

Il la voulait juste pour une nuit et pas pour toujours. Le jour de son anniversaire, ivre et imprudent, le futur Alpha, Harry Blackridge prend ce qu’il avait toujours voulu pendant des années, son corps et au matin il réalise l’erreur que le destin avait faite. Elle est son âme sœur. « Oublie ce qui s’est passé, » lui dit-il, froid et distant, et elle le fait, ou essaie de le faire, jusqu’à ce qu’une attaque de rogue la mette à l’hôpital de la meute, saignant et appelant son nom, encore et encore, pendant qu’il reste dans une autre pièce tenant la main d’une autre femme. Cela la brise complètement, tout devient encore pire quand elle découvre même qu’elle est enceinte aussi. La loi de la meute ne laisse aucun choix. Un an, un contrat et un mariage sans promesses et sans amour. La nuit, il la touche comme si elle lui appartenait, son corps sûr même quand son cœur ne l’est pas, et elle le laisse faire, mais ne lui donne jamais plus. Maintenant il veut tout mais elle n’est pas sûre de le vouloir encore.

« J'ai besoin de votre aide pour simuler un crash de jet privé, » ai-je dit calmement. « C'est le seul moyen pour moi de quitter Lucas Moreau. » Les gens disaient qu'il avait renoncé au trône de la Mafia pour moi. Ils l'appelaient l'homme qui avait troqué le pouvoir contre l'amour, l'héritier qui avait abandonné le sang et l'or pour épouser une serveuse des bas-fonds. Pendant des années, il a fait croire au monde en notre histoire. Il a bâti des empires à mon nom. Il m'envoyait des roses tous les lundis. Il a déclaré à la presse que j'étais son salut. Mais l'amour ne signifie pas toujours la loyauté. Pendant que je croyais encore à l'éternité, il construisait une seconde maison dans mon dos – une maison remplie de rires, de jouets, et des fils jumeaux qui ont hérité de ses yeux. La nuit où j'ai disparu, son empire a brûlé. Il a ravagé des villes, corrompu des gouvernements, et enterré des hommes vivants pour me retrouver. Mais au moment où il y est parvenu, j'étais déjà partie. Et la femme pour laquelle il était autrefois prêt à mourir ne l'aimait plus assez pour rester en vie.

On the night of their second wedding anniversary, Adrian Cole publicly declared his love for his wife, Ava, gifting her a rare sapphire pendant that became the talk of the city. To the world, they were the perfect couple envied and admired but behind closed doors, Ava’s reality shattered. A single anonymous message exposed everything, Adrian’s personal assistant, Livia, wearing the same pendant, wrapped in his embrace. While society praised his devotion, Ava sat alone in a house that no longer felt like home, choking on betrayal she had unknowingly endured for years. For too long, she had played the obedient wife, enduring the scorn of her in-laws and Adrian’s cold excuses that his affair meant nothing, just a “momentary indulgence.” Confident she was bound to him by her family’s financial struggles, he believed she would never leave… even if it meant raising another woman’s child. But he was wrong. Quietly, Ava began to dismantle everything. She gathered evidence, secured her freedom, and walked away without a trace of the fragile woman he once knew. The woman who returned was no longer soft or submissive, but a brilliant and popular figure in the world of medical innovation, one whose name commanded respect. By the time Adrian realized what he had lost, it was already too late. Because the woman he once discarded now stood beside a far more powerful man, not just any man but his own UNCLE who looked at him with cold amusement and said, “Be careful with your words… That woman you call your wife now belongs to a world you can’t reach.”

Jade has more than enough on her plate with overbearing parents and a 'little miss perfect' elder sister, to add the psycho leaving threat notes in her locker would be just too much. It could be some stupid prank or she could be in real danger, but she doesn't have the time to figure it out on her own. So when life hands her the possession of her school's bad boy's precious book, she trades it for his help in uncovering the person behind all this. The heat is turned up and things are getting interesting between the bad boy and his good girl as mysteries get solved and hearts learn to love........again!

I was Alpha Dylan’s “mate-in-waiting” for six years. Every night, he’d make love to me, worshipping every inch of my body. On our sixth anniversary, he promised me a surprise. I thought he was finally going to make me his official Luna. Instead, I watched him place the moonstone necklace, the symbol of the Luna, around the neck of Lady Lilith from the Black Forest Pack. He took my hand and explained, “Lilith has a rare disease, Moon-Eater's sickness. The only cure is to complete the mating bond with a powerful Alpha.” “Don’t worry. In three months, you’ll take your rightful place as my Luna.” I didn’t cry or fight like I used to. Instead, I sent a message to the Alpha King, the fated mate I once rejected. “About your offer to marry me… I accept.”

After I was reborn, I was the one who changed the name on my blood bond with Prince Mortlock. I wrote in “Isabella”—the other vampire he’d always cherished, always protected. When Isabella wanted the ruby necklace, the one that marked the Prince's Mate, I let her have it. The wedding dress Mortlock had prepared for me? I gave that to Isabella, too. I did it all because in my past life, I got my wish. I became Mortlock’s mate, but I lived every moment in Isabella’s shadow. In the end, during a battle with vampire hunters, Mortlock ran to a wounded Isabella first. I was the one left to take a silver stake through the heart. So this time, I decided to let them be. To stay far away from Mortlock. But this time, the cold, distant Prince wept and begged me to be his mate again.

“Why are you in daze again?” Hillary asked Kath when she caught her staring at the passenger for too long. Kath quickly switched her look elsewhere, like she hadn't done what her buddy had said. "I'm not! I'm not!" she lied, but her companion noticed her holding the square cufflink with a jade stone in it. Katherine Del Valle has been hunting for the owner of the cufflink for 10 years, but while she is looking, she meets a domineering passenger on the plane and tries to entice her. What would happen if she fell in love with him? Can he help her find the owner of the cufflink, or will he be the one to derail her plan?

Nora Ainsley didn’t sign up to play hero. As a rogue-born tracker for hire, she works solo, stays broke, and minds her business. But when a missing pendant leads her into the heart of a conspiracy tied to the murder of the Silver Ash Pack’s Luna, she gets dragged into something way bigger than she ever wanted. Now she’s a suspect, a target, and holding a magical artifact every side wants to kill for. Worse, the only person offering help is Roman Vale—a masked stranger who’s got his own twisted ties to the very pack that wants Nora dead. She didn’t ask for this war, but if she doesn’t fight back, she won’t survive it.

In the third year of my relationship with Aden, he died in a war between werewolf packs. His beta twin brother, James, brought back the obsidian pendant that Aden had dropped on the battlefield. He told me in a choked voice, “Emily, Aden isn’t coming home.” I fainted on the spot. After waking up, I went mad and tried to go to the battlefield to die with Aden. However, James held me back. Later on, I attempted suicide multiple times, only to be saved by James and his mother, Louise. All the werewolves in Moon Forest Pack said that Aden and I were deeply bonded. It was not until the third month after Aden’s death that I finally discovered the one who died wasn’t him at all.