Ray Bradbury The Pedestrian Summary

Werewolf, betrayal, love after marriage, alpha, Luna, revenge, contract marriage, second chance, ceo, love- triangle, possessive, affair, reborn, regret, face-slapping, forgiveness

“You want this cock, don’t you?” he whispered, his voice a dark rasp. "Say it." “Yes,” I sobbed, my body trembling. “God, yes.” ------ Chelsea Laurent caught her boyfriend in bed with her best friend. What she didn't expect... was to fall for his father. In an attempt to drink away her sorrows and spend the night with a stranger, she ran straight into the arms of a man whose touch promised the kind of ruin she craved. But before the night could turn into something irreversible, she found out he was no other than her ex boyfriend's father and fled his hotel suite, never expecting to see him again. Until she came face to face with her boss. The stranger from the hotel. Her ex’s father. Leonard Grey, billionaire, ruthless tycoon, and the most dangerous man she could possibly want.

Alyssa once believed that love was the highest form of sacrifice. She gave everything to her husband — her shares, her home, even her life. But on the day the ink of her signature dried on the asset transfer papers, she watched the man she loved introduce another woman… as his new lover. Shattered in an instant, cast out of her own home, and left with nothing.

One steamy night together. That’s all it takes for him to turn the entire world upside down in search of her. *** Lovett Olivia Lice’s world shatters when she discovers that her adorable little niece is her husband’s child. The betrayal is compounded by divorce papers and her grandfather's sudden passing. With no one and nowhere to turn to, she decides to end it all. However, she’s rescued by a Good Samaritan. Five years later, she returns to her hometown as a successful chef and a devoted mother. She has two things in mind. Revenge and the man from that night, five years ago. However, when she finally gets to meet him again... “Give me just one reason why I shouldn’t have you skinned alive. Right. Now?” He growled. ‘Who. Is. This. Man?’ Lovett is speechless.

Nothing on earth could have prepared Keira Ashford for her fated mate's betrayal on their one year anniversary. Dominic Crane didn't apologize or offer her an explanation when she found him in bed with her own step sister. He just stared at her with cold indifference and called their bond a mistake. Broken and humiliated, Keira takes matters into her hands and does the unthinkable. She severes the mate bond herself. But Dominic's cruelty didn't end there as he is upset at being rejected. He vows that no wolf in the territory would ever dare claim her as their partner as long as he remained the Alpha's heir. Her step-family mocked her weakness and spewed rumours to the pack, whisperinh of how she was now damaged goods. Everyone was forced to believe that she had failed as a mate—they were wrong. Keira has a plan for revenge. She would acquire a mate before the next three months was up, one that could stand on par with her ex mate. Who better than his father, the one wolf Dominic fears above all others. Alpha Matthias Crane, the most powerful wolf in the Pacific Northwest. Kiera starts a game of hide and seek using seduction as her only leverage. But what she doesn't expect is for Matthias to see through her and second her actions. Matthias has been watching Keira and knows exactly what she's doing. And he has plans of his own. Soon what begins as a calculated game of seduction quickly spirals into something that is remains: Who is really playing whom?

“Sign it. We’re done. I want you out with your things before the end of the day.” That’s what Sebastian told Rylee when he came home after a business trip. In his arms was Maya Hastings—his first love who dumped him for being poor. Rylee gave up everything for this man and defied her parents, and it was all for nothing. Their relationship lasted only two years, and he threw her away like trash after everything she helped him with. She secretly supported him to build something for himself and made his business successful. Now, she had no choice but to return to her family home and marry the man her parents had arranged for her—Julian Gray, who treated her as if she were invisible. They were only getting married because of the agreement between their families. She didn’t expect to fall in love with him along the way.

Every werewolf in the Blood Shadow Pack knew one thing—Nicholas Pendle, their Alpha, loved his Luna more than anything. When I complained about the summer heat, he led his warriors to conquer the Blue Lake Pack, just to build me a private summer retreat. When I longed for romance, he lit the sky with fireworks and said, "Julie, I swear to the Moon Goddess, I will never betray you for as long as I live." He planted roses for me with his own hands, then stood before the entire pack and vowed that I was the only one he would ever love. He had my name carved into every corner of the pack, and he granted me equal power—his Luna, standing beside him as his equal. But just now, from his briefcase, something slipped out. A lace dress, one that wasn’t mine.

(18+ Warning: This novel contains explicit scenes of violence, aristocratic cruelty, sexual content, and themes of blood magic, non-consensual binding, and character trauma.) Sofia Quispe was never meant to be a simple noble. As the supposed pureblood heir to the powerful Abribi Covenant, her fate was sealed in a political Blood Union to three powerful vampire princes: the dominant Zilo Graves, the ruthless Klaus Blackwell, and the ambitious Zack Rivera. This union was meant to secure the throne and unite the kingdom. But during the Ceremony of Binding, the blood doesn't lie. When Sofia fails to Awaken her vampiric gifts, a desperate bloodline test reveals the shattering truth: she is not a pureblood noble, but a disgraced Dhampir—half-human, half-vampire—the product of her deceased mother’s forbidden betrayal. In the rigid aristocracy of the vampire world, Dhampirs are considered abominations, a stain on bloodline purity. Renounced by her enraged father, Lord Quispe, and brutally rejected by the Princes who fear political ruin, Sofia is cast out of the Covenant citadel and into the perilous human world, a day-walker with no power, plagued by the maddening Blood Hunger caused by the trio’s incomplete Blood Mark. Rock bottom forces her into the shadows of the city, where she works at a supernatural bar, fighting to control the erratic power surges of her cursed bond. When a violent attack by feral vampires leaves her vulnerable, she is saved by Phuwin Montague, a powerful, enigmatic Vampire Sovereign from a rival faction. Phuwin sees not a flaw, but a unique political weapon—a Dhampir marked by a Prince. Drawn into his dangerous orbit, Sofia trains with an ex-military vampire hunter, learning to master her hybrid nature and the dark potential of her blood. But the psychic echoes of the incomplete bond still haunt her, pulling her

What should have been a happy moment became a disaster for Helena. She never expected the husband she loved so much, handed over the divorce papers. That's not all, because at the same time, her husband brought another woman into their home. And she was pregnant. As if that wasn't enough, Helena's mother-in-law fully supported her son's move; divorcing Helena. One thing that became main reason; Helena never got pregnant. Even though on that day, Helena brought one piece of news that she had been waiting for; her pregnancy. However, what she got made that intention undone immediately. Helena is thrown out of the house, with nothing other than her pride being trampled on. Unfortunately, they never found out who Helena really was. And when Helena feels like it's time to show everyone who has insulted her everyone who has insulted her, will Helena give them an apology? A second chance for Arden who regrets wasting Helena?

Some contracts are signed in ink. Others are written in something far more dangerous. Julian Evans has built his entire life on numbers; precise, logical, unyielding. As a forensic accountant, he follows the money, exposes the lies, and never gets close enough to feel the heat. Until the trail leads him somewhere no paper audit can protect him from: directly into the orbit of Alastor Vane. Powerful. Patient. Ruthless in ways that would make lesser men confess to sins they never committed. Their arrangement is simple on paper. Julian gets access. Alastor gets cover. No feelings. No complications. No crossing the line that separates what they are from what they could become. But the line keeps moving. The deeper Julian digs into the fraud unraveling at the edges of Alastor's empire, the more he realizes the rot isn't coming from outside, and the man he's supposed to be investigating might be the only one keeping him alive. Someone inside wants the investigation buried. Someone inside knows Julian's name. And the closer he gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to remember which side of the law he's supposed to be standing on. He came for evidence. He's staying for reasons he refuses to name. Because the most dangerous thing in Alastor Vane's world isn't the enemies at the door. It's the forensic accountant who's starting to look like home. A dark omegaverse romance. Slow burn. Morally complex. Not for the faint of heart.