Live Or Let Die

In order to maintain peace among the packs, the Nightshade Pack of the north and the Emberclaw Pack of the south decide to form an alliance and dispatch their diplomats to each other's packs. On the day before the pack-exchange application is due, I accidentally discover a request that will transfer me to the Emberclaw Pack, which is a thousand miles away. Lucas Ashworth is the one who has made said request. Not only is he the Alpha of the Nightshade Pack, but he's also my boyfriend. I feel chills running down my spine. My body starts to tremble as I reach out to Lucas through my mind-link. Based on the sensations drifting from the mind-link, I can clearly feel how relaxed and pleased Lucas is at the moment. After hearing my choked-up voice, he merely replies casually, "Oh, Lily was the one who submitted the request. She said she was just pulling a prank on you and wanted to see when you'd notice that request. "Now that you've noticed it, you can just cancel the application." Lily Cross is Lucas' new secretary. She's an Omega whose wolf has just awakened within her. My wolf and I fall silent for one whole minute. It turns out that others can easily pull pranks on me, Lucas' girlfriend as well as a warrior of this pack. Instead of kicking up a fuss or getting into an argument with Lucas, I just pack up my things calmly and travel to the Emberclaw Pack as scheduled. But Lucas gets alarmed soon enough. He asks, "Didn't I tell you to cancel the application? You didn't do that?" I nod in return. "Yeah."

Sera Quinn had one job. Marry a dying man, keep her head down, and wait. Nobody told her that Damien Voss did not die on anyone's schedule but his own. She was twenty two years old when her stepfather sat her down at the kitchen table and explained her options. Her mother was sick. The bills were swallowing everything. And the most powerful billionaire in the country was lying unconscious in a private hospital ward with his family desperate enough to pay a small fortune to any woman willing to stand beside him at the altar. All Sera had to do was say yes. She said yes. She had no other word left. She moved into his mansion and tried to be invisible. She talked to him in the dark of his room every night because there was nobody else and because she was sure he could not hear her. She told him things she had never told anyone. She told him she was scared. She told him she was pregnant. Then she overheard four words that changed everything and she ran before the sun came up. Four years later she had rebuilt herself from nothing. A career. A spine. Twin children with their father's eyes. A case file she had been building alone, one quiet hour at a time, that connected a road barrier report to a name that would put people in prison. She had one rule. Stay away from Damien Voss. Then her four year old daughter hacked into his private server and left him a message. Damien was already in his car before Sera found out what her daughter had done. He was not coming to talk. And Sera Quinn was finally done running.

"Marry me before i die and after that, i will make sure your daughter will get a new heart. Just marry me, and say i do in front of my parents."- SPADE CEDRIC VASILE What will you do if death is on it's way to take you? Upang matupad ni Spade ang kaniyang pangako sa kaniyang mga magulang, handa siyang magpakasal without binding with so called love, just a pure contract hanggang sa sumapit ang araw kaniyang kamatayan. Yet, hihilingin pa ba ni Spade na mamatay kung ang puso niya ay unti-unting nahuhulog sa kaniyang asawa, na walang ibang hiniling kung hindi ang madugtungan ang kaniyang buhay. Paano kakalabanin ni Spade ang kamatayan, kung nalalabi nalang ang mga oras ng kaniyang buhay. Will the heavens heed his plea to prolong his days, if only to remain with the woman who ignited his desire to live?

In der Nacht ihres achtzehnten Geburtstags hatte Nyra Virellion alles. Reichtum. Macht. Eine liebevolle Familie. Eine Zukunft als Erbin des mächtigen Darkforest-Rudels – und einen Verlobten, der geschworen hatte, sie immer zu beschützen. Am Morgen hatte sie nichts mehr. Ihre Eltern werden brutal ermordet. Die Ältesten wenden sich von ihr ab. Der Beta, dem sie vertraut hatte, stiehlt ihr Geburtsrecht. Und der Mann, den sie heiraten wollte, verrät sie auf die demütigendste Weise, die man sich vorstellen kann. Ihres Titels beraubt und aus ihrem eigenen Rudel verstoßen, entdeckt Nyra die grausame Wahrheit: Die Menschen, die ihr am nächsten standen, hatten die ganze Zeit gegen sie intrigiert. Doch als sie versuchen, sie zu einer Ehe mit genau dem Mann zu zwingen, der ihr Leben zerstört hat, greift jemand Unerwartetes ein. Ein mysteriöser und gefährlich mächtiger Lycan-Alpha – einer, dem selbst die stärksten Wölfe Respekt zollen – weigert sich, das geschehen zu lassen. Und in dem Moment, in dem sich ihre Blicke begegnen, verändert sich alles. Denn das gebrochene Mädchen, das sie wegwerfen wollten, könnte weit wichtiger sein, als irgendjemand ahnt. Nun von Feinden umgeben, von Verrat gejagt und an ein Schicksal gebunden, das sie nie erwartet hatte, muss Nyra sich entscheiden: Wird sie das machtlose Mädchen bleiben, das sie verstoßen haben … oder wird sie sich erheben und alles zurückfordern, was man ihr gestohlen hat?

A hell-recycle world within the modern world, designed for death or near-death individuals. With the greenhouse effect resulting in instability in hell, access to hell becomes restricted, and the game keeps the new souls busy while offering them a second chance to return to their lives before death, depending on their performance. A six-digit cash prize is awarded to the winning participants, with rewards ranging from reversed choices and time manipulation to wealth and more. The 100 Doors Challenge System was designed purposely for this world, to keep the growing audience (already existing souls) entertained. Chosen participants must die beautifully at each door. The fancier and more tragic the death, the higher the views. The story alternates between real-world broadcast control rooms, digital death arenas, and fragmented dreamlike worlds designed from Author Willa’s traumas, fears, and regrets and those of the participating ghosts. 100 Doors: Die Fabulously for the Audience. This story contains graphic adult themes, including explicit sexual content, psychological tension, dark humour, trauma, and scenes of coercion and moral ambiguity. It explores mature, disturbing, and emotionally intense situations within a fantasy-system setting. Reader discretion is strongly advised.

Eine bewegende und emotionale Geschichte über Mia, eine Frau, die in einer lieblosen Ehe gefangen war, die auf einer Geschäftsvereinbarung anstatt auf Zuneigung beruhte. Mit Kyle Branson verheiratet, einem erfolgreichen und distanzierten Geschäftsmann, führte Mia ein Leben im unerkannten Schatten seiner wahren Liebe – ihrer jüngeren Stiefschwester Taylor. Als Mia unerwartet entdeckte, dass sie mit Zwillingen schwanger war, erschütterte diese Nachricht ihre Welt, zumal ihr Ehevertrag eine Schwangerschaft verbot. Während Mia mit der Realität rang, Kyles Kinder zu erwarten, musste sie nicht nur die erdrückende Last ihrer kalten Vertragsbeziehung tragen, sondern auch den Schmerz des Verrats ertragen, da Kyle seine Affäre mit Taylor fortsetzte. Mias innerer Kampf verschärfte sich, als sie durch den emotionalen Aufruhr watete, für den Mann unsichtbar zu sein, den sie einst geliebt hatte, und gleichzeitig das drohende Geheimnis ihrer Schwangerschaft bewältigen musste.

Everyone was watching them when Augustine grabbed my hand and said, "Where do you think you're going, my mate?" I can't believe her mate is the new Alpha! I once thought that Augustine loved me, but contrary to what he said, he was engaged to wolfless me, simply for the elders and the pack. And I knew nothing about this. Worse still, there's always a Rhoda between us. When Rhoda lied about me pushing her. "Apologize to her." Augustine said to me with an expressionless face. He always had the utmost tolerance and patience with Rhoda even if she wanted to kill me. When I finally shifted miraculously, my wolf revealed the unsettling reality, "Didn't you know the earrings he gave you had a location tracker in them?" I shuddered as I heard this. I jumped off a cliff, letting everyone think I was dead. Augustine, I want you to regret it; I want you to remember this day you lost me forever. I never thought we'd see each other again. He stared at me when I stood with a younger Alpha by my side and pulled me into his arms, "Don't touch my mate." "Augustine, I am not your mate." I sneered. "Keira, I am sorry, but don't leave me." The condescending Alpha begged me.

Sie war dem Namen nach seine Frau, zu Lebzeiten sein Schatten, und seine Erinnerung war zu spät, um sie zu retten. Isabelle Rousseau liebte jahrelang Étienne Beaumont, den Mann, der ein Imperium aufbaute, während sie ihre Zwillingstöchter allein großzog. Er jagte dem Erfolg hinterher. Sie jagte seinem Herzen hinterher. Und als sie ihn dabei ertappte, wie er ihren Jahrestag mit einer anderen Frau feierte, zerbrach nichts in ihr, es hörte auf zu schlagen. Sie geht. Sie nimmt ihren Namen wieder an. Sie baut ihre Welt neu auf. Doch Geheimnisse kommen ans Licht. Die Zwillinge sind nicht seine. Eine Verschwörung bedroht alles. Und eine tödliche Diagnose lässt die Zeit gegen sie beide kämpfen. Kann der Mann, der einst ihr Herz gebrochen hat, es heilen? Oder kommt die Liebe zu spät, um noch etwas zu bewirken? Manche Liebesgeschichten enden mit „Ja, ich will.“ Manche enden mit „Ich vergebe dir.“ Aber die seltensten enden mit „Ich entscheide mich, wieder zu leben.“

I was with Marco, the New York Mafia heir, for seven years. He never told his family about me. But when I walked in on a wedding rehearsal and saw the groom embracing the bride-to-be. It was Marco! "Her fiancé's held up in Italy. I'm just a stand-in," he told me, but his eyes never left her. "You're the best wedding planner in New York. This wedding has to be flawless." But I saw something in his eyes I'd never seen before. A possessiveness that bordered on resentment. Isabella, the bride, hated every idea I had for her. In the end, Marco told me to give her the wedding I'd spent five years designing for myself. "Our wedding can wait. I'll give you something bigger, I promise. It's just a plan, Sophia. It's what you do. Giving it to a client should be easy, right?" He didn't know. It wasn't just a plan. It was my dying wish. In the end, I gave him what he wanted, quietly preparing to die. Later, he went mad, kidnapping the world’s best doctors—risking a global manhunt—all to save me.

To earn a place in the Nostra family, I forge a new identity. The night my lie unravels, Don Nostra looks at me as if I'm dirt at the bottom of his shoe. I press a razor blade to my wrist. "Kick me out of the family, and I'll die right here." "Fine. Since you want to be my wife that badly, I'll give you what you want," Lorenzo Nostra snickered. After that, he brings home woman after woman. He forces me to kneel outside his bedroom door, saying, "Watch and learn. This is how you please your Don." The stinging pain in my knees is nothing compared to the chill in my heart. When he is done, he towers above me. "All this for a title," he says with a sneer. "You really put up with anything." Enduring him becomes the only way I can survive this world. Then, one day, he walks in with a civilian girl named Maria Romano. "Go. Bring her the heirloom Madre left behind," he commanded. This time, I refuse. I turn and walk away, never once looking back. When Lorenzo uncovers the truth, he loses his mind and begs me to come back.