Private Message

When Iris surrendered to a night of passion with Gavin , the ruthless alpha CEO, she never expected her life to be forever changed. Believing they shared a fated connection, she was shattered by his callous dismissal with the statement, “I don't eat same food twice” But fate had other plans. Months later, Iris discovers she's carrying twins - identical replicas of the man who broke her heart. Determined to raise them alone, she sends a defiant message to Gavin, packaging one of the twins with a note that reads: "Dessert after supper." Gavin's world is turned upside down by the arrival of his unexpected heir. Enraged and intrigued, he dispatches his team to track down the elusive Iris, only to find her vanished into thin air. As the new head of the enigmatic Green family, Iris has mastered the art of invisibility. But Gavin's not one to give up easily. The game of cat and mouse has begun, with the twins as the ultimate prize.

Eidolon Avenue: Where the secretly guilty go to die. One building. Five floors. Five doors per floor. Twenty-five nightmares feeding the hunger lurking between the bricks and waiting beneath the boards. The sequel to Eidolon Avenue: The First Feast (“a great read...powerful and jarring” - Cemetery Dance) returns to the voracious Eidolon as it savors The Second Feast. A narcoleptic man in apartment 2A battles a vengeful past determined to rob him of everything as he runs from the barbaric disaster of a delusional love. A woman in 2B, reinventing herself to please a callous boyfriend, discovers the horrors that wait in the shadows of her self-renovation. The man in 2C, a teacher at the nearby Catholic girl’s school, collapses beneath the brutal consequences of his lecherous desires. An older woman in 2D, after decades dedicated to the church, is cornered at last by the grisly carnage beating at the hollow center of her faith. And a college student in 2E, hungry to escape an ignored life of invisible anonymity, finds herself captured between the pages of a ravenous book. All thrown into their own private hell as every cruel choice, every drop of spilled blood, every silent, complicit moment of cowardice is remembered, resurrected and relived to feed the ancient evil that lives on Eidolon Avenue. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

Introduction At my mating ceremony with Blake Morrison, the Alpha heir I'd loved for eight years, his childhood sweetheart texted him a pregnancy test photo. He didn't hesitate for a second. He canceled our mating ceremony and rushed off to take care of his childhood sweetheart. After he left the ceremony hall, his childhood sweetheart posted photos on the big screen behind me. Photos of the two of them tangled together in my bedroom. Then Blake sent me a message: "I was drunk that night. Ivy is carrying my child, and I need to be there for her." "She wanted to hide the pregnancy and raise the pup alone, but she's an Omega. It's too hard for an Omega to raise a child by herself, especially when she's competing to be the Pack's Head Healer... I can't ruin her future, and I can't abandon an innocent life." "You're an Alpha wolf. High-ranking wolves don't get pregnant easily, and you've always wanted children quickly, right? After she gives birth, I'll arrange for her to study advanced healing at the Alliance. You can raise the child, and they'll only know you as their mother." When I didn't reply, he added another message: "The official marking and re-scheduling our mating ceremony will have to wait until after Ivy gives birth." I stared at my phone screen, laughing until my eyes burned with tears. I was the only Alpha heiress of the Stormfang Pack, the strongest pack in Southern territories. Did he really think that I had no choice but to pick him as my mate? I dialed the Alpha King Kane Blackwood's number directly: "Are you still willing to be my mate?"

I've been in a coma for six months after a car accident. When I finally wake up, the first thing I hear is something sloppy in my hospital ward. My girlfriend, Quinn Simpson, is in here. She's kissing Chad Scott, her true love. Chad looks uneasy as he glances at me every few seconds. "Quinn, don't do this. I heard coma patients can still hear things. If Mateo hears us—" Quinn scoffs, completely unbothered. "So what? He's a vegetable. Probably won't wake up for the rest of his life. It's better this way, isn't it? Didn't you say you liked living on the edge?" They talk trash about me right in front of my face. I can even feel the contempt in Quinn's eyes. When the two of them finally leave, they don't notice the effort it takes for me to crack my eyes open. But the nurse who walks in next does. She sees it immediately and slams the emergency button. Once I start regaining strength, the first thing I do is send a message to my parents. "Mom, Dad, I'll do the arranged marriage."

I'm about to marry Andre Lawson, a Waller Street tycoon, while my boyfriend of ten years, a blue-blooded attorney, still has no idea. His first love returns from Galoria, and now his phone floods with intimate photos of the two of them reliving their Lierre League alma mater days. On Valentine's Day, he reserves a private room at one of Zradstin's top Talision restaurants and orders a mango-nut cake, completely forgetting I'm allergic to both. We end up in a full-on whipped cream fight before he recalls my allergy. When the doctor arrives, I'm the one signing the emergency paperwork alone. That's also the moment I agree to the marriage my family arranges.

RENO BASKARA JATMIKO, CEO RB & J Buidings adalah duda yang berduka dengan dua anak gadis yang memasuki usia remaja. Pria yang hangat, tampan, cerdas, kokoh dan berkuasa karena memliki harta dan keuangan tajir. Di samping itu karakternya tegas, memiliki optimis yang tinggi dan suka bersosialisasi. Di usianya ke 38 tahun , isteri yang dicintainya meninggal dan sampai usianya ke 40 tahun dia masih merasa berduka atas kehilangan wanita yang sangat dicintainya. Keluarga, sahabat-sahabatnya dan rekan bisnisnya ingin Reno keluar dari tempurung kedukaan, karena sebenarnya dia adalah pria humoris dan ceria. Sejak ditinggalkan Irene , cinta pertamanya dia menjadi pria yang dingin meskipun masih menjalani kehidupannya dengan kedua anaknya dengan sepenuh hati dan kasih sayang. FLORA SANTI WIJAYA, lajang berusia 30 tahun, ditinggal selama-lamanya oleh tunangannya yang meninggal karena kecelakaan , mengalami patah hati yang berkepanjangan. Setiap pria yang mendekatinya membuatnya bergeming, Flora mencurahkan semua perhatiannya pada pekerjaannya. Inner beautynya yang menonjol menjadi pribadi menarik. Sebagai Private Personal Asisstant, dia sosok yang mampu merencanakan, kreatif, setia dan perfeksionis . Dia adalah andalan bosnya . MEGAWATI DIRGA SUSANTO, CEO PT PUSPITA DARA, janda cerai. Pribadi yang sombong , ambisius , dominan, memiliki rasa percaya diri tinggi, egois , keras kepala dan tidak segan mempermalukan orang lain. Di usianya ke 40 tahun masih terlihat cantik dan menggairahkan, memiliki anak laki-laki berusia 5 tahun. Meskipun masih di taman kanak-kanak Jimmy suka bikin ulah dan menjadi langganan psikolog sekolah. Setelah menikah dan berbulan madu ke berbagai Negara di Eropa, Flora mengetahui sisi gelap Reno yang selalu ditutupi Reno pada dirinya karena Reno takut kehilangan Flora yang sangat dicintainya. Reno dan Flora akhirnya mengadakan perjanjian selama satu tahun, jika Reno bisa menghilangkan kebiasaan buruk pernikahan tetap dipertahankan tapi jika tidak mereka harus berpisah. Sanggupkah Reno berpisah dengan Flora yang sangat dicintainya? Yuk. Baca ceritaku yang bisa menjungkar balikkan hati. Apakah Flora tetap bertahan peada pernikahannya atau mereka berpisah baik-baik?

I confirmed Vincent Lowe was cheating on me on the day of our third wedding anniversary. The dining table was filled with dishes, yet he barely touched his fork before heading out the door. "Where are you going?" I asked. His answer was unnervingly straightforward. "A friend's treating me to dinner. Cassidy Mason—you know her, right? It's a free meal. It'd be a waste not to accept." An hour later, however, I received a voice message from Cassidy. In the message, Vincent's voice was lighter and livelier—so different from how he ever sounded with me. "They say you should marry someone you can truly enjoy a meal with. I really regret meeting you so late. If only I had known you earlier, I would've married you instead." I listened in silence. Then, alone at the table, I finished every last bite of the meal I had prepared. Afterward, I left a divorce agreement behind.

Victoria is the daughter of an Alpha but not the Luna. She was the product of an affair. Her grandfather hating her and all she stands for. He sends her away to a private school. This was no ordinary private school it was a school for child assassins. Her wolf being wild and unmanageable makes her feared by her pack. The pack oracle tells her at five years old she needs to find her brother Axel he is the key to taming her wolf. As Victoria grows up she holds on to the day she will find Axel and tame her inner beast. For now she will keep Zarina locked away with magic and wolfsbane.

Marcus P.O.V Catalina Island was the territory of my park and we had been trained not to reveal our identity to humans, but our only fear was the birth of a Primordial Guardian werewolf which was to put an end to all immortals including vampires and werewolves. My time to take the place of my father as the Alpha male was approaching and my park pressured me to go in search of my mate so I made a decision to leave after the autumn camp which the humans hosted but during the camp I found my mate and imprinted on her. 'Alicia' I couldn't forget her name as I brought the news to my father who was the Alpha but while I delivered the message we received a sign that the mortal catalyst who was designed to bear the fatal child had shown up on the Island. I took it on myself to put an end to the mortal catalyst only to realize that she was my mate. I was devastated, I couldn't kill my own mate so I hid it from my park pretending that I was still in search of her. I stayed away from her in order to keep her safe but that wasn't until I realised that my park had known who it was and knowing they were going to kill her I had to send her far away from the Island. I was either going to give her up to a human mate and suffer for the rest of my life, or take her despite the difficulties thereby turning my back on my park, or kill her and myself to save the life of my park.

After being reborn, I didn't stop my Alpha mate, Caden, from bringing home his childhood friend—Lilith. She was carrying a pup, and he wanted to take care of her. I didn't fight it. I broke the mate bond myself. Handed him exactly what he wanted. Set up every private moment between them. Then slipped out of their story. Because in my past life, even as I lay dying, Caden hated me for not letting Lilith stay with us while she was with pup. She lost it on the way out. Couldn't carry again. And Caden? He said once I was gone, he'd make it right. Be with her. Protect her. So this time, I let him. Gave them everything. Gave them everything they wanted. So why did Caden lose his mind searching the world for me—begging me to come back?