Memory Like A Steel Trap

Bagaimana jadinya bila seorang pria pendiam dan angkuh bertemu dengan model seksi yang memiliki sifat kekanakan? Dave Mose William, seorang pemuda mandiri yang memiliki hoby memotret beberapa objek indah, hingga menjadikan hobynya itu sebuah penghasilan yang menghidupi dirinya diusia yang terbilang muda untuk seorang pria. Kekayaan sang ayah -Marvin Williams- tak serta merta membuat Dave menggunakannya. Dia memilih hidup mandiri ke kota Manhattan, berniat hidup tenang tanpa ada yang mengganggunya. Namun, kehidupan tenang yang dia impikan hanya menjadi angannya semata. Dia mengalami jungkir balik dalam hidupnya setelah bertemu dengan model seksi bernama Clara Davonna Dawn. Wanita kekanakan yang begitu ceroboh itu, membuat seorang Dave terperangkap dalam kisah masa lalunya yang menyedihkan. Membuat hati seorang pria angkuh seperti Dave menciar dan bertekad akan melindungi Clara. Di saat perasaan cinta telah tumbuh, keadaan menjadi tampak kacau. Sebuah tragedi mengerikan terjadi dalam hidup Clara, menghancurkan kariernya sebagai model international, dan menghancurkan hati Dave yang baru saja merasakan cinta sejati. * “Aku akan menunggumu, sampai kau siap untuk menjadi milikku lagi.”_Mousie_ “Aku berjanji akan kembali setelah aku mampu menjaga diriku, untukmu.”_Cattie_ **

Kembalinya cinta yang sempat terputus, walau tanpa pertengkaran antara Dave dan Clara. Membawa kisah baru bagi mereka saat bertemu dalam situasi yang berbeda. Namun, dengan hati dan perasaan yang sama. Keduanya berusaha untuk kembali menyatukan hati mereka. Meski semuanya tak semudah seperti membalikan telapak tangan. ____ "Semua sudah berubah, Dave. Kau memiliki kehidupanmu yang gemilang, dan aku memiliki kehidupanku yang sederhana. Kuharap kau bisa menerimanya bahwa kita tak bisa kembali. Kita sudah berakhir!" pungkas Clara. Ia berbalik hendak melangkah melewati pria itu. Sayangnya, Dave menahan pergerakan Clara yang hendak pergi darinya, Lagi! "Aku menahannya selama empat tahun, Cla ..., dan kau membuatku melakukannya sendiri hanya dengan membayangkanmu berada di hadapanku. Lalu sekarang dengan mudahnya kau mengatakan semuanya sudah berakhir?!” Dave menunjukan sorot tajam dari netra abunya. “Heh! Tak semudah itu, My Cattie!" bentaknya. Lalu menarik wanita itu ke dalam pelukannya dan merengkuh tengkuk Clara lalu mencium bibir yang sangat dirindukannya.

Gaining wealth and having everything you ever wanted at such a young age was not really heaven when you needed to deal with your past trauma and intense fear of abandonment by your loved ones. Because money might allow you to impress someone temporarily, but without commitment, the other person might suffer and leave. That was the case for Nathaniel Anderson (Niel), a narcissistic young billionaire who became the sole heir of his late grandfather's inheritance, making him richer than his own parents who abandoned him when he was just a baby. He had a long crush on Haylee Johnson, his classmate during high school. During senior year, she got into trouble and her mother chased her away from home. Being deeply in love with her, Niel rescued her and sheltered her, giving her everything he could, except for one, his love. He couldn't give his love to her for fear that she might one day abandon him. So, to make her stay, he gaslighted her unintentionally, making her thought that she would be an ungrateful person if she ever leaves him. However, being young and wild, Niel couldn't resist the temptation of having a good time and playing around with the other girls. He dated a lot of them, but nothing lasted, which convinced him even more, that the same thing would happen if he ever date Haylee. So, he decided strictly to not date her despite knowing that she loved him too. Would Haylee stay inside such a painful meaningless relationship and convinced Niel to commit to her? Or would she leave and find a better man for herself?

Amira Westwood had the life everyone wanted. Money. Name. A future mapped in gold. Then it all fell apart — her father’s empire crumbled, the man she loved broke her in the cruelest way, and the world watched it happen. Now she’s tied to Leon Mercer — the blind, untouchable CEO whose silence cuts deeper than his words. To save her father, she signed the contract. To save herself, she has to survive him. But Leon isn’t what he seems. And the more Amira learns, the more she wonders: is she the prize in his war… or just another pawn waiting to fall?

My husband’s first love and I were kidnapped at the same time. As a professional negotiator, my husband rushed to the scene as soon as possible to save us. When the kidnappers agreed to release one hostage, he chose to let them keep me to protect her. I knelt on the ground, desperately begging him to save me first, but his face was expressionless. “Tammy is still a virgin. If she’s raped, she won’t be able to handle it.” “You’re different. You’re already married to me. Even if something happens to you, I won’t hold it against you.” He shoved me toward the kidnappers. He probably didn’t know I was three months pregnant, and he was about to become a father.

In a world biased against her, Riley, a determined and confident woman, faces the wreckage of her career after rejecting her employer's advances. Forced to start anew in a different city, a chance encounter on her layover unveils a supernatural realm, altering the course of her life. Now torn between rebuilding what she lost and embracing this new, mystical world, Riley grapples with choices that could redefine her purpose. Meanwhile, Alpha Liam and his loyal Beta, Jax, lead a powerful werewolf pack and manage a significant human firm. Liam's clandestine mating with someone who could jeopardize the pack prompts internal strife. Jax, grappling with his Alpha's recklessness, stands by his side, struggling to mend the chaos Liam unleashed. As they confront the consequences of a mistake that risks the entire pack, the question lingers; should their entire pack pay for their Alpha's misstep, or is there a way to salvage their world?

Wisps of smoke escaped his fine lips. “Spread your legs.” The rod of his cane felt cold against my skin. I shivered, my lips frozen under the weight of his blazing gaze. “Obey! Sweetheart.” He roared, and I parted the guards of my secret alley for him. Serving him the best appetite for tonight. ……. One day while she was rushing to bakery to get a cake with customised apology on it to patch up with her boyfriend. Bella hit into a man, with steely blue eyes, showing no affection but fear. She didn’t hesitate to grab him by the collar and make him pay. Her confidence crushed when reality struck her hard in the privacy of his room. And the random man he hit into turned out to the dad of her ex. Yet it was too late to save her fate.

Audrey Brown is a werewolf who also happens to be the son of Sir Rowland Brown, head of the Brown clan and CEO of a multi million dollar company called Brown Holdings. Stephanie is a human , trying to find a balance in her rather plain and empty life. They both stumble upon each other in the most unlikely place and though they hate each other, they both fell in love. Their relationship lasts until he left for school...

She stripped herself naked before him, baring not just her body but whatever it was left of her dignity. "Isn't this what you wanted, like all the other Alphas?" She asked him, her voice trembling with pain and contempt. He stood frozen as he beheld the figure before him. And after a few minutes, picked up her robe and wrapped it gently around her. Then he walked away. She wasn't just a woman and her body which he had just seen was a sin - the kind that made time pause and had men under it's hypnotic influence. And for the first time in his life, he had felt something stir within him. His body had betrayed him, rising with a hunger that terrified him. It wasn’t just lust. It was raw and ferocious. For her and only her… his desire finally woke up. --- They say the Bloodmoon brings out the worst in beasts. For him, it made him Alpha. For me, it made me hunted. When I was chosen as a tribute to the Bloodmoon Hunt, I expected to finally have a mate. After being rejected five times by my previous ones. But what I didn't expect... was it to be him. Alpha Denzel: brutal, cold and cursed by the moon itself. Everyone fears him. They say he's unlovable and untamable. Because of his tyranny. But I’m not everyone. And I’ve got a beast of my own. That beast of an Alpha is mine to tame. Or destroy. Whichever comes first.

"She was just a breeder until she became his everything…" [Warning: R18+ / Mature and Explicit Sexual Content / Dark Romance] Althea Grayson never imagined she’d become a captive, let alone to Alpha King Gavriel, the ruthless ruler who blames her for her father’s crimes. Treason. Murder. Betrayal. The punishment? Her life now belongs to him. “A life for a life,” Gavriel declares. “Your existence is mine to control.” But Althea refuses to break. She’s spent her life surviving, and she won’t stop now. Yet the more she resists, the more she’s drawn into the dangerous, intoxicating pull between them. Gavriel is cruel, controlling, and everything she should hate, so why does her body betray her? Bound by chains, hate, and something far darker, their twisted game spirals into an obsession neither can escape. Will Althea fight for her freedom, or will she surrender… to the man who owns her body, her fate, and perhaps even her heart? ********** Excerpt: “I’ll take your body,” he muttered, his voice sending shivers down her spine, “your breath, your cries, your fire. Until you forget what it means to resist me.” She arched beneath him, fury and heat colliding in her chest. She hated him for treating her like something he owned, and yet she wanted him. She was drowning in the contradiction that was Gavriel Kingsley. “You’ll try,” she breathed, teeth clenched. He smiled then, dark and primal. “Oh, little wolf,” he murmured, lips brushing her ear, “I don’t try. I take.”