Onyx Storm Excerpt Cosmopolitan Novels & Stories

In this life, it is said that there are only two choices: to use or to be used, to save or to be saved. Regardless, there was one thing I had to do - survive! “Don’t fool me! I know your schemes and what you are playing behind my back!” Rage boiled in his veins. “You may have my surname, but you’re still nothing, Scarlette Scott. Don’t forget that.” How could someone display such blatant disrespect and arrogance? Ha! This man believed he could brand anyone with his pride! But not me! Not me, Storm Scoville! I will make sure your arrogant behavior is humbled and put in its rightful place!

I'm rejected after asking for my boyfriend's hand in marriage for the 99th time. To my devastation, he turns and proposes to my best friend. I storm over to his office to demand an answer, but I hear them making out. My boyfriend says, "Don't worry. She offered herself to me in bed several times, but I've never touched her." I head home and trash the place. When I run out of strength, I make a call. "I'll marry you, Spencer." Since the man I chose doesn't love me, I'll now go for someone who does.

Rita Peterson is a young and beautiful lady in her early twenties who resolved to sell her body as she lost her job. Fate brought her and Benjamin Gray together on the day she was to start selling her body but instead, he offered her a job as a maid in his house. As she moved into his house for the job, they gradually built a platonic relationship that resulted in the eruption of subtle feelings of love. All was going well for them until Victoria Alyson came into the picture to ruin what they had built from scratch. Will they be able to overcome the hurdles that Victoria presented before them? Will their love survive the rating storm? Find out in this thrilling love story.

Cincinnati Roxanne Lopez isn't the reserved type, she's a firecracker who flies off the handle in the mere snap of a manicured finger. Her identity and dignity being the most precious thing to her, Cincinnati holds a secret that pays most of her bills and kept it within her very own sealed lips. She was an entrepreneur but of goods more perishable and delightful. Storm, on the very brink of losing it all to fifteen of his board members, employs her help and expertise in bringing the offenders down thereby rattling another skeleton from her past. Fifteen bandits, over a handful of cities, the splatter of blood, money and sex. Delve into the story of Cin and Storm.

BASTARD SON OF THE VIKINGS Palermo does not forgive. Neither does it forget. When Guerrero Valenti, the feared leader of the Vikings, vanished, the city exhaled a dangerous calm—but only for a moment. In the shadows, enemies waited. Rivals sharpened their knives. And one woman bore a secret that could ignite every street in the city. Lucia Romano carried the child of a man who had disappeared into legend and rumor. A son who had not been claimed, not protected, not named. The city whispered of him with venom: the bastard of the Vikings. The boy was fragile, but he was a storm waiting to erupt. And every night, Palermo tested him. Masked men tried to snatch him from his crib. Fire, steel, and blood became his lullabies. Yet he survived. Every threat only sharpened his instincts, every scream hardened his mother’s resolve. But whispers spread faster than steel through the night—rumors of a man returning. A shadow that would claim everything, sparking fear in every heart: Guerrero Valenti. The father who abandoned him. The legend whose name alone commands obedience. The storm that will rise, carrying vengeance, blood, and fire. And when he comes, Every man who dared call the bastard his enemy will fall. Every street, every roof, every whispered corner will bow to the son of Guerrero Valenti or be washed in blood. This is the story of survival. Of fire and steel. Of a mother and her son. Of a father’s return. Even the earth is getting ready to absorb blood … the blood of those who call the legitimate son of the Vikings a “BASTARD", and collect necks........the necks of those fallen by the sword of GUERRERO VALANTI. And upon his return Heads will bow to the one they called a BASTARD .

Lyra Bennet made a mistake… After years of a committed relationship to her boyfriend Levi, Lyra plans to give him the only thing she has always held from him: Her Innocence. Yet the night doesn’t go exactly as planned, and she ends up sleeping with someone else instead, Her boyfriend’s brother. Lyra has betrayed Levi in the worst way possible. She loves him, she really does. But even love isn’t enough to prepare her for what comes next. Lyra finds out she’s not the one who’s cheated on their relationship. Levi has also been busy, but while she felt guilt for betraying him, Levi has been lying right to her face - the same way he’s been doing for months now while he betrayed all that was ever between them. With the pain and hurt running through her, Lyra decides she won’t be the fool he cheats on and calls “babe” right after he’s fucked her bestfriend. No. To get back at her boyfriend, Lyra becomes determined to chase his brother Christian Storm and become his sister-in-law. But Christian Storm is much more than just a man…. He’s a force to be reckoned with. While Lyra plans to simply use Christian for revenge, she realizes something as she tries to use him. Lyra realises there can be no other man for her except him. Her heart has been captured, by a man she might never be able to have…. Because not only is he miles out of her league… Christian also has a fiancée.

The dazzling star materializes its lights above the mountain, and then, there's a seductive guy who shares his bronze heart to the ravishing girl. With her, he can gaze at the bountiful world, even though the star and moon have disappeared their shimmering objects. He falls in love with her, especially when the exquisite girl imbibes her gleaming eyes exclusively to him; he would be insane if he can't behold her again. When the storm hit the whole land, he couldn't glimpse at her again. He does not want to fall in love with another woman in life. Alongside his arms, someone waits for his sincere love. Would he get attracted to her?

On her wedding day, Elena loses everything; her parents, her freedom, and her future when she’s forced into marriage with ruthless Mafia boss Alexandro Di Falco. But when Rafael, the Don’s most loyal man and consigliere, saves her life, their fates become dangerously entwined. Bound by duty yet torn by desire, Rafael must protect the woman he should never want. As secrets about Elena’s parents’ deaths unravel and betrayal festers inside the Cosa Nostra, the two are drawn into a storm of violence, power, and forbidden love. Together, they must decide: surrender to the Don’s cruelty, or risk everything to challenge the empire that could destroy them both

Amia, once a trusted member of her pack, finds herself accused of betrayal in a plot orchestrated by someone she once called a friend. Cast out by the people she loved and left broken by the cold indifference of Kael—the man she trusted most—Amia loses everything. Stripped of her dignity, her home, and her place in the world, she stands at the edge of despair. But even as the rain washes over her shattered soul, she makes a vow to return stronger and unbreakable. Driven by pain and a newfound determination, Amia embarks on a journey to rise from the ashes of her past, forging a path of strength and vengeance. As her enemies celebrate her downfall, they remain unaware of the fierce storm she is destined to become.

Trapped on a billionaire’s private island. A hurricane raging outside. And a passion neither of them saw coming. When fierce environmental scientist Juniper Hale is forced into a reluctant partnership with Adrian Blackwood, a powerful tech mogul who sees the world in numbers and profits, sparks fly and not the good kind. Their partnership is a ticking time bomb, she’s prepared for battle, not romance. Their clashes turn into a war of wills, but when a deadly storm leaves them stranded together, their hatred transforms into something far more dangerous. Secrets from Juniper’s past threaten to unravel her, while Adrian’s empire teeters on the edge of destruction. In a game where trust is a currency neither is willing to spend, will they survive the terror… be consumed by it?