Joan O'brien Nude

Na festa, minha filha levantou de propósito uma pergunta para o meu marido. — Papai, já que a Srta. Lloyd está grávida do seu bebê, isso quer dizer que vamos morar com ela no futuro? Ele coloca o bife cortado com cuidado no meu prato e responde suavemente: — Sua mamãe e eu fizemos um acordo — quem trair primeiro desaparecerá da vida do outro. Eu não posso deixar isso acontecer, querida, então isso precisa permanecer em segredo. Mesmo quando o bebê nascer, eu nunca vou deixar a mamãe descobrir sobre eles. Em seguida, ele faz um sinal para mim: — Eu sempre vou te amar. Meus olhos ficaram marejados mas ele não percebeu. Mal sabe ele que minha audição foi restaurada há uma semana. Ele também não sabe que eu já descobri a amante que ele vinha escondendo. E muito menos imagina que eu comprei secretamente uma passagem para atuar como professora voluntária no Planalto de Seru. Tudo o que preciso fazer agora é esperar sete dias até a papelada ser aprovada. Então, eu vou desaparecer da vida dele para sempre.

— Malu, eu te amarei para sempre! — Eduardo rugiu em desespero com a voz carregada de desejo. No instante em que estavam prestes a alcançar o clímax, o celular dele começou a vibrar insistentemente. Em um momento como aquele, é claro que ele não deu importância. Mas logo a tela se acendeu e, no momento, que ele reconheceu o nome escrito na notificação, seus movimentos pararam de repente. Maria Luíza ouviu-o atender: — Alô? — Edu, você sabia que a Jordana... — No silêncio da noite, a voz do outro lado soou nítida. — Fale mais baixo, o momento não é conveniente. — Eduardo interrompeu em árabe, num tom contido. — O resultado dos exames saiu. — Do outro lado, a pessoa também passou a falar árabe, mas a voz continuava alta. — Jordana está com câncer terminal, e só tem um mês de vida! Ela quer ser sua esposa. Você pode realizar o último desejo dela antes que ela morra? — O quê? — O rosto de Eduardo mudou drasticamente. — Espera por mim! — Malu, surgiu uma urgência. — Ele se voltou para Maria após desligar o telefone. — Eu preciso sair um instante. Fique em casa descansando, eu volto logo. Sem esperar pela resposta dela, Eduardo levantou-se, lavou-se rapidamente, trocou de roupa e saiu sem olhar para trás. Logo em seguida, o celular de Maria vibrou. A tela iluminada mostrava a mensagem de Jordana Torres: [Maria, você perdeu. Eu já te disse antes que o Eduardo é meu.] E logo acima, tinha uma mensagem enviada por ela três dias antes: [Se eu tivesse câncer, você acha que Eduardo te deixaria para vir atrás de mim? Eu aposto que sim.] O olhar de Maria ergueu-se lentamente desviando a tela do celular até a porta do quarto, ainda aberta. Eduardo não sabia, mas ela já dominava o idioma árabe há tempos, e tinha entendido cada palavra daquela conversa. Depois de muito tempo em silêncio, um sorriso amargo se desenhou em seu rosto. — É... eu perdi...

Alexandru Luc Conri is a Lycan, one of the only ones left. He is the Beta of The Blue Moon Pack. He has been in love with Adaline Aurora Vulkov all his life, but she ran away ten years ago, leaving him and everyone behind. Now, she's back, and he's ready to claim her as his Mate, something he should have done long ago. He tries to, but she rejects him, in front of the whole pack, and he lets her go. Adaline Aurora is a psychology professor at NYU. She left New Orleans years ago, determined to never return. However, she visits for her parent's anniversary, and she sees him, Alexandru, so she flees. She has never felt part of the pack, and she never wolfed out, one of the things that made her leave home. She returns to New York, trying to live her life with her boyfriend and best friend, oblivious to the danger lurking around. An huge wave of betrayal and dangers bring Addie and Alex together, and she starts to realise things, as they try to work together to save their home. This is a second chance paranormal novel. It has witches, werewolves and vampires. Find out what happens to Adaline and Alexandru.

We all know a Viola, we've all met a Viola, we might even be one. Viola is a woman in her early twenties with absolutely no reason to keep living. She wants to die, so she tries to, sadly for her, she doesn't. Now, she is standing in the ashes of who she used to be with no idea who she should be. Viola will break your heart, but only the best stories do. She is consumed by a loss that is as deep as the ocean, pain that knows no bound, extreme anxiety and chronic paranoia, trauma that is skin deep, sadness that always return, depression that never leaves and how agonizing a friendship-breakup can be. This is a book about Love, the love that lives between you, love that is hard to find, harder to understand, the love we were born with, waiting patiently between our ribcages, waiting to be recognized, to be seen, the love we should have for ourselves, the love that does not fade.

lunch went by pretty quickly, and we were back to classes soon enough. I'd like to forget to get a book out of my locker, so I went to go quickly and went to get it. I was leaning against the locker next to mine as I quickly scanned my schedule on my locker door. When warm air fanned the side of my face. "Move" being the excellent human being I am, I jumped out of fright, flinging the heavy calculus textbook in my hands backward. I hear a grunt and turn to find the person hunched over as they hold part of their face "Oh God! I'm so sorry!" I panicked. and then he looked up. the first thing I noticed was his short, dark hair. it looked so smooth, and 1 almost reached out to play with it. My eyes trailed down to his strong jaw line, down to his broad shoulders. I didn't even realize that I was biting my lip as I further inspected the Adonis before me. His arm flexed, bringing my attention to the amber eye he was now covering It was him. Six. He is the most popular and dangerous guy in school. And I'd managed to injure him with my calculus textbook.

Damien Lancaster, the cold and ruthless heir to a billion-dollar empire, has spent years plotting his revenge against Selene Carter—the woman he believes ruined his life. Damien and Selene were once lovebirds, so much in love they couldn't do without each other. They met at a business party. Years later, the lovers who were once the talk of the town became the laughingstock. Damien's business crumbled, and he was back to square one. The moment his business collapsed was also when Selene vanished without a trace. He began to believe she was behind his downfall—and she wasn’t there when he needed her most. Years later, Damien is now successful. He meets Selene again—she’s doing all kinds of jobs, struggling to survive. Damien approaches her with one motive—revenge. He tries to lure her in, but she resists. When an opportunity arises, he forces her into a fake marriage to secure a deal and restore his image. Selene, drowning in debt and legal trouble, has no choice but to sign. The contract: no love, a time limit, and total control. But as emotions resurface and secrets unravel, Damien finds himself falling for the woman he swore to destroy. Their twisted love faces betrayal, secrets, pregnancy—and a dangerous threat.

Love, Happy Endings, Soulmates, these are the things we want and need in life, we want to get them, but it's easier said than done. Certain factors need to be considered. Relationships and Love need few unmaterialistic things, but sadly, Caden Ian Manchester and Fiona Guinevere Kings do not know these. Weighed with traumas and scars, they hid their true self from each other, but the past never stays hidden, and it gets revealed in the worst way possible. Fiona Kings looks like a real life Barbie, but she sure as hell doesn't live in a fairytale, if it's a fairytale, it's a twisted one, a very twisted fairytale. Her life has being chaotic, from a family that don't care about her, to an abusive and psychotic boyfriend. She met him, Caden Manchester, it seem like she's drawn to the bad boys, Aren't we all?. Caden Manchester is a walking trauma, a breathing disaster, a living catastrophe, an addictive poison. She knows she should run, everyone tells her to run, but once Love gets into the equation, leaving seems unlikely. Caden Manchester is an orphan, a drug addict, a result of a broken home. An Artist who has definitely lost his muse. He meets her, Fiona Kings. She seems like his saving grace, his last and final shot at redemption, all he has to do is let her get tangled in his web of pain, death and painful secrets. He's no good for her, he's aware of this,  She's too angelic, but like a moth drawn to flame, he's drawn to her, to light. She's his Vanilla, His butterfly whose wings he breaks, rendering her broken. He breaks her, shatters her, destroys her, but she didn't leave. He tries to push her away, but, she stuck with him.

“Oh my darling Uncle”. I said while hugging him as he was backing me. “Uncle?”. A different voice asked and it seems to come from the person I'm hugging. He turned around with me in his arms and I stared into his eyes. Dark eyes. Uncle Max's eyes are blue, like mine. I let go of him immediately like I had been burned and blushed furiously. “Uhm, sorry. I thought you… were my uncle”. I told him. A chuckle brought my attention back to his handsome face. “Hello cutie, why do you think your uncle is here?” He said, his voice sending shivers down my body. *** Happiness Matthews, a 19-year-old college freshman, thought she had everything figured out when she left her small Texas town for the bright lights of California. But after a dangerous security guard targets her in her new apartment, she has to move in with Mason, her uncle's friend, who she met two years ago at his wedding. Mason, a man in his thirties still haunted by the woman who left him at the altar two years ago, never expected to share his home with his best friend’s niece. At first, their living arrangement seems like a temporary inconvenience—but the longer they stay under the same roof, the harder it becomes to ignore the magnetic tension building between them. As the lines between family and desire blur, Happiness finds herself drawn to the man who carries both charm and a painful past. But with every passing day, the unspoken rules become more difficult to follow, and a dangerous truth about Mason’s past threatens to tear them both apart. In a story where forbidden attraction and unresolved heartbreak collide, Happy must choose between loyalty, family, love, and her own future—before the stakes get even higher

🔔 Fair warning: This book contains steamy scenes, forbidden desires and language. Two weeks after her father’s burial, Scarlett’s mother brings home a tattooed, irresistible lover. Scarlett swears she won’t want him—but forbidden desire doesn’t play fair. Scarlett knows he’s off-limits. He’s her mother’s lover. But every stolen glance, every brush of his hand, drags her deeper into obsession. Soon, secrets become touches. Touches become nights of forbidden ecstasy. And Scarlett discovers that once you taste sin, you can never spit it back out.

Right after Suzanne's husband runs away with his mistress, she not only loses her job, but the doctor diagnoses her son with a liver infection. Then her friend Stella linked her up to “Dominic Khan.” Dominic Khan, who is a forty-three-year-old billionaire with no wife or children, requires a decent lady to marry him to bear him an heir and be a stay-at-home wife during the contract marriage. When introduced to Dominic Khan, Suzanne is stunned by all his impediments and erotic expectations but she accepts them. *** But will Dominic accept to take care of Suzanne's dying son? Would he make a single mother with no decent background his wife? What if Suzanne's husband returns? Read on to unravel this rivalry of love, romance, and seduction!