Paint Renaissance

Six years ago, a corporate acquisition deal I handled went up in flames, and 50 billion dollars vanished into thin air. Bankrupt investors spray red paint all over my front door for a year straight. Dad died from a stroke, and Mom lost her mind and disappeared. I ended up doing six years in prison for embezzlement. After I got out, I changed my name and started delivering food in downtown, running myself ragged for a few bucks per delivery. But then my ex-wife, Shirley Pearce, showed up, and the entire delivery station ground to a halt. She had become a financial powerhouse, a regular on the covers of business magazines. Reporters blocked my delivery scooter, shoving microphones in my face. "Mr. Marcus Quinn, Ms. Pearce has been single for six years, paid off all your debts, and she's been waiting for you to come home!" I stared at that perfectly made-up woman with her adoring eyes and felt nothing but disgust. That so-called "devoted" ex-wife of mine? Six years ago, she had forged company seals to help her boy toy short the stock market. Then, when everything fell apart, she threw me under the bus to save herself.

Life is not always bright. Esmeray, a woman who has always believed that there is good in everything, realized that when misfortune struck her one after another. Despite trying to live a normal life, she felt as if the world closed its doors to her; as she fell into despair, the curse she was oblivious of which repressed her peculiarity was broken and she became aware that she possessed a supernatural ability. Her world turned upside down as she found herself living in Mysticuria, a hidden place on Earth where supernatural people reside. She thought that she already fits in despite the peculiarity of the community as she hoped to unfold her identity but it seemed that her special ability is a jinx that could paint its user black and could cause destruction to the world. How will she survive if there is an order to exterminate her? "I have always been a lover of sunshine, an admirer of the light of day, a daughter of the Sun. To see the beauty of the world and its people in the glimmer of daylight made me feel loved. But of course, the thoughts I once believed in came crashing down into a speck of dust. I was unduly blinded by the goodness of every day that I overlooked the cruelty of life; it was already late when I realized that the dark dawns to shade my beautiful world with pitch-black."

J'aimais Lucian depuis des années. J'avais tout abandonné pour le sauver, mais tout ce que j'avais reçu en retour, c'était du dégoût dans ses yeux. Dans ma vie précédente, on m'avait forcée à devenir sa compagne, mais à la fin, j'étais morte sous les griffes des loups sauvages qu'il avait envoyés à mes trousses. Il avait même brisé le cou de mon frère Marcus de ses propres dents. La nuit de ma renaissance, j'ai fait un choix différent. J'ai laissé ma rivale Ayara obtenir ce qu'elle désirait. J'ai épousé à sa place le prince cruel Draven, même si les rumeurs disaient qu'il « tuerait sa fiancée ». Ayara, elle a pu s'enfuir pour sauver Lucian. Mais quand la portière de la voiture nuptiale s'est ouverte, la personne qui en est sortie était le garçon doux que j'avais rencontré à l'âge de cinq ans. « Regarde-moi bien, ma chérie. Suis-je vraiment aussi terrifiant que le disent les rumeurs ? » Ses yeux ambrés étaient pleins de chaleur et de tendresse. Il s'est avéré qu'il avait organisé douze fausses cérémonies de mariage en attendant simplement que je grandisse. Quand Lucian s'est mis à genoux pour me supplier de revenir, il était déjà trop tard, j'étais désormais la Luna de Draven.

The little boy I had saved when we were kids grew up to be a possessive, obsessive CEO. For ten years, he kept me by his side, using my grandmother's illness as a bargaining chip to force me into marrying him. He tried everything to win my heart, pulling every trick in the book, but no matter what he did, he could never make me love him. In a fit of rage, he found a woman who looked almost exactly like me to take my place. They flaunted their relationship for everyone to see, and people whispered that the CEO had finally found his true love. But that day, the woman, riding on his affection, barged into the villa with her entourage. She broke my fingers one by one, slashed my face with a utility knife, and removed my clothes to humiliate me. "Even though you had surgery to look like me, I'll let that slide. But you even learned to paint like me, too? You really did your homework. Let's see how you try to seduce men now!" Just as I was bleeding out and on the verge of death, the obsessive CEO finally showed up. The stand-in grabbed my hair and dragged me in front of him, smugly reporting, "Honey, this wench was hiding in the villa trying to seduce you. I've made sure she can't succeed!"

I am an Omega. One day, Alpha Carl Blanchard found me in the Borderlands and took me in. After we formed the mate bond, he spoiled me senseless, never once caring who was watching. Now, everyone was whispering about the cold, ruthless Alpha who treats me—an Omega who used to be a Rogue—like I'm something sacred. They said it defied everything the Moon Goddess ever intended. I used to think he loved me down to the bone, that he just couldn't help showing the whole world how crazy he was about me. But then, I overhear him talking to his close friend. "I'm the Alpha of the Eastlands. I rule ten packs. If I don't paint Daisy as my weakness and my one obsession, how else am I supposed to keep Fiona off my enemies' radar? Turns out every wound I took for him was a damn joke. If that's how it is, I'm done playing Luna of the Eastlands. On my last day there, I made one call. "I'm in. I'll head to the Borderlands and spend the next ten years in closed research on medicinal herbs." When Carl found me gone, he came after me with bloodshot eyes and his pride in ruins. "Daisy… are you really leaving me?"

She fell first, he fell harder. Liliana Storm, an innocent and naive 22 years old ambitious artist who always wanted to achieve something away from her watchful father and elder brother's eyes. Their sheltered princess was oblivious of the world's cruelty and Lily wanted to make a name for herself, so despite of their worries, they let her go to a complete different country and let her pursue her dreams. Russia, the beautiful progressive country which taught her many things, but the biggest was not everyone are saints. Cyril Sokolov, Russian mafia lord, far from innocent and naive man, complete opposite of what his future bird possessed in her. He was a slave of one thing, his competitive nature, he loves challenges and would be damned to lose any. He was raised by ruthless monsters in human flesh, and he didn't mind becoming one of them. Cyril once again took upon a challenge and played a dangerous game but he never thought this time, his victory will become his biggest downfall. The Russian mafia would be reduced to his knees after his obedient little bird would decide to embrace her freedom away from his toxicity. A story of deceit, betrayal, twisted game and obsession. When the dangerous playful challenge would ignite an unwanted attraction curling it into bloodthirsty obsession forcing the ruthless mob boss to paint the town red just bring his escaped bird back to his cage.

In my previous life, no one loved me except my Alpha mate, Grayson. My parents and brothers treated me like a mobile wolf essence bank for my sister Victoria. But Grayson remembered I was afraid of the dark and quietly left a nightlight after my essence transfusions; he kept my casual mention of "wanting to find a quiet place to paint" in his heart, and casually gave me $5 billion to buy my favorite forest. When I confessed my feelings to him, though he was shocked, he still accepted my confession and promised he would definitely mark me. God knows how happy I was then—the person I liked actually liked me too. I only realized when I was dying that his kindness towards me was predicated on my continued donations of wolf essence to Victoria. After my rebirth, the first thing I did was spend five billion dollars to buy an isolated forest. "Miss Ember, are you sure you want to purchase this forest? If you buy it and move in, it'll be nearly impossible to contact the outside world." I nodded, my voice carrying a hint of relief. "That's exactly what I want—somewhere no one can reach me." But when I really left, why did my family and Grayson go crazy and beg me to come back?

Après ma renaissance, j'ai demandé à une enchanteresse d'effacer le lien du destin qui m'unissait à Julien Laurent. Grâce à un sortilège capable de transférer ce lien, je l'ai fait passer à sa sœur adoptive, Élodie Lemoine. Dès lors, il a cru qu'Élodie était sa compagne destinée. Avant lui, j'ai modifié le nom sur l'invitation à la cérémonie d'union, et j'ai même offert à Élodie, de mes propres mains, une robe de cérémonie luxueuse que j'avais faite confectionner pendant plus de six mois. Julien et Élodie sont partis ensemble en mission à Paris. Sous le titre d'Alpha, il a écrit à la place d'Élodie une lettre de recommandation vers Sciences Po Paris, dans le monde des humains. Et moi, je suis partie à Harvard poursuivre mes études. Dans ma vie précédente, après avoir vécu vingt ans à ses côtés, il s'est agenouillé devant moi avec les enfants et les petits-enfants, me suppliant de briser notre lien de compagnon… simplement pour être enterré aux côtés d'Élodie après sa mort. Dans cette nouvelle vie, je ne sacrifierai plus jamais mon avenir pour qui que ce soit. Cette fois, j'entrerai dans une grande école, je deviendrai ma propre fierté, et je ne me retournerai plus vers le passé.

L'année de ma renaissance était aussi celle où la guerre contre les vampires a éclaté. La toute première chose que j'ai faite a été de me débarrasser du petit. Le petit de mon compagnon. Celui de l'Alpha Lucas. Dans ma vie précédente, il avait couvert son amie d'enfance, Sarah, lorsqu'elle s'était accouplée avec un vampire. Il avait pris mon enfant de sang pur et l'avait échangé contre le bâtard métis qu'elle portait. On m'avait accusée de trahison. On m'avait torturée à mort dans une cellule d'argent. Et mon propre fils, manipulé et endoctriné par Sarah, s'était tenu au-dessus de mon cadavre pour me dire de pourrir en enfer. Quand j'ai rouvert les yeux, j'étais enceinte de trois mois. Je n'ai pas hésité une seconde. Je me suis rendue directement à la cabane de la sorcière et j'ai bu le poison qu'elle m'a tendu. Mais tandis que la vie s'échappait de mon corps, j'ai débouché un autre flacon : une potion de Mimétisme, rare et coûteuse. Elle imite les battements de cœur d'un fœtus. Elle diffuse l'odeur d'une louve enceinte. Lucas veut un enfant sacrificiel pour endosser la faute de Sarah. Très bien. Je vais lui offrir le spectacle qu'il attend. Cette fois, je n'ai plus aucune faiblesse.

Juliette, après avoir été vendue par sa tante à un trafiquant sexuel suite à la tragique perte de ses parents, endure d'innombrables souffrances et douleurs. Convaincue qu'il n'y a plus d'espoir pour elle, elle est sauvée par l'un des hommes travaillant pour son maître. Cependant, quelques années plus tard, elle connaît un nouveau traumatisme lorsqu'elle découvre la véritable nature de sa relation amoureuse avec son sauveur. Brisée et meurtrie, tant physiquement que psychologiquement, elle goûte à l'amertume de la trahison. C'est alors qu'en ce jour marqué par la déception, Juliette croise le chemin d'un homme parmi les plus riches de New York. Cet homme d'affaires a renoncé à l'amour et aux relations amoureuses, cherchant à se protéger. Mais lorsqu'il rencontre Juliette, il est immédiatement captivé et tombe éperdument amoureux d'elle. Pourtant, il lutte contre ses propres sentiments, craignant de succomber à nouveau. Entre le passé sombre de Juliette, marqué par les abus et la trahison, et la volonté de l'homme d'affaires de préserver son cœur fragile, le destin les réunit dans une histoire poignante. Alors que leur relation se développe, Juliette doit guérir ses blessures et apprendre à faire confiance à nouveau, tandis que l'homme d'affaires doit affronter ses propres démons intérieurs pour ouvrir son cœur à l'amour véritable. Mafia, Milliardaire, Actions, Amour forcé, Premier amour, déception, Manipulation, Souffrances, Romance, mensonge, Décision, Pardon, Prison, renaissance…