Ruthless Empire

The company holds a management meeting. My wife's secretary, Lisa Carter, is checking IDs at the conference room entrance. She greets everyone who enters with a warm smile. But when it is my turn, she lets out a scornful laugh. I frown and pull out my Cybersecurity Department Manager's ID, but she doesn't even glance at it. "Mr. Torres, Ms. Shaw took pity on you and made you a manager. Do you really think you're somebody important?" I ignore her and dial the CEO's direct line instead. "Someone's saying my position is just charity from you. Is it true?"

On a dark burning night, I watched my father and his mistress kill my mother but they claimed it was an accident. I plotted to take revenge once I got married but on my wedding day, my stepsister stole my groom and my father forced me to marry my groom’s uncle instead. He was known as the Demon Rafael. His name brought fear to all those who dared to whisper it. He was the man even kings feared. I expected scars and cruelty. I expected to be killed on sight. Instead, I found dangerously enchanting emerald green eyes. And a man who carried a much darker secret beyond the eery rumors about him. He thinks I’m weak. My family thinks I’m disposable. The capital thinks I won’t survive the night. They’re all wrong. Because I didn’t marry Rafael Skull to be his obedient wife. I married him to destroy my father. To reclaim my mother’s legacy. To take back the throne they stole from me. But in a palace where every woman is fighting to bear the next Alpha King… And every smile hides betrayal… The most dangerous game isn’t politics. It’s falling for the demon who might ruin me. Will I survive the dangerous palace of wolves and avenge my mother or will the Demon Rafael consume me with his darkness?

This book is authored by Priscilla Ogwezhi. I faced the direction where the scent was stronger and looked on. Whoever is there is my mate. A girl was placed in the middle, and from the looks of it, she was receiving the forest no-escape punishment. Before she was a... My eyes widened seeing her. She's got to be my mate. There were seven men beside her, and one of them came to her and whispered in her ear. Whatever he had told her made her shocked as she gasped with widened eyes. She walked closer to me and bowed her head. “Alpha Darius, it's an honor to see you here....” She said that to me. Riley, an omega, is tortured and treated like a slave by everyone in her pack. During an accident with the alpha’s daughter, Riley soon discovers that the moon goddess had mated her to a ruthless and unkind Alpha. A man that hated her for being an Alpha. He vows to make her life a living hell. Yet destiny has never played in the favor of one’s heart. For Alpha Darrius Cade will fall for the weak, vulnerable omega against his desires. Will Riley lose hope in her mate and his unkindness towards her. Perhaps the passion they share heartedly will create the magnet that chains their hearts together.

In the shadowed kingdom of Nocturne, where ancient Lycans rule with iron claws and unbreakable wills, Omega Elara Thorne is offered as tribute from her indebted pack—a fragile sacrifice to secure their fragile peace. At the grand mating ceremony under a blood-red moon, fate cruelly binds her to the most feared ruler alive: Kael Draven, the Ruthless Lycan King. Towering and scarred, with storm-gray eyes that promise death to his enemies, Kael rejects her on the spot. "I will not be weakened by a low-born Omega," he snarls publicly, severing their sacred bond and shattering her soul. Cast out, disowned, and broken, Elara flees into the wilderness, only to be rescued by Ronan Hale, a kind-hearted Alpha who offers her sanctuary—and perhaps a love untainted by cruelty. But as Elara's hidden Silver Blood awakens, unleashing powers that could heal or destroy the Lycan throne, Kael begins to unravel. The severed bond haunts him with unrelenting rage and forbidden visions of the woman he cast aside. Possessive instincts he long buried surge to life, whispering that she was never a weakness... but his only salvation. When rebellion threatens Nocturne and an ancient prophecy names Elara as the key to the kingdom's fate, Kael must confront the monster he became. Will he claim the Omega he rejected before another takes her forever? Or will his ruthless pride cost him the one mate destined to tame his beast? A steamy rejected mate romance filled with betrayal, awakening power, and a king's desperate grovel. Weak to strong heroine. Possessive anti-hero. Second chance at fated love.

Para mailigtas ang nalulugmok na kumpanya ng pamilya Perez, Elena has no choice but to agree, to a deal na inilatag ni Sebastian Montlaire. The contract in exchange for her. Isang kundisyon na imposibleng tanggihan, lalo na't ang pamilya ni Elena ay wala namang pakialam sakaniya. Ngunit sa bawat gabi na nagkakasama si Elena at Sebastian dahil sa kasunduan, mas lumalalim ang obsession ni Sebastian, at mas nagiging komplikado ang puso ni Elena. Is it just a ruthless deal for desire, o hahantong ito sa isang mas malalim pang ugnayan? Kapag kapangyarihan, pagnanasa, at puso ang nagbanggaan... alin kaya ang mananalo?

I'm Olivia, For months i only dreamt of giving my virginity to my Boyfriend and Mate Ethan, but after my sister wickedly drugged me, I ended up sleeping with a man I never knew. "You have one month to find the man who defiled you or be ready for the consequences." My father said with no ounce of sympathy for me. I searched but never found the he-wolf, until I stumbled into the New moon's pack and met Alpha Mateo. He was cold, merciless and terrifyingly familiar. Now a contract ties me to him and I have no other choice than to accept. But how can my strange one-night stand he-wolf turn out to be the savage and powerful Alpha Mateo? With hate burning between us and a desire pulling us closer will be remain Enemies or surrender to the bond fate chose for us?

My father’s death was ruled a suicide, but I knew it was murder. The last word he left behind was a name: Volkov. So I buried the girl I once was, built a new identity, and walked straight into the world of the man I believed had taken him from me. Damian Volkov was everything one should fear—cold, brilliant, untouchable. Yet the longer I stayed, the more I saw the fractures beneath his control. Behind his silence lived a sorrow that mirrored mine. I sought vengeance, but somewhere between hate and obsession, I fell for the man I swore to ruin. Now I stand between the monster who ruined me and the only man I have ever truly loved. Until a truth I never thought possible tore through every reason I had to hate him: He is my stepbrother, born from a one-night stand my father could neither bury nor escape.

Layla Backwood was a victim of an accident that claimed an entire family leaving her as the only survivor. When she revived in the arms of a charming man, Julian, who didn't hesitate to make her his wife, she thought she had it all; a man to love, a career on thrive, a future at close aim. But everything changed in just one night of betrayal. She finds Julian, the only man she loves, in the arms of another woman, her world shattered. Just then Viktor Douglas entered the picture. A ruthless, dreadful and magnetic billionaire CEO, who offered her everything she had long wished for: comfort, revenge, passion and a kind of love that screamed dangerous and capable of consuming everything in its path. Now layla is hung between the man who shattered her very being ad the man who ignited her darkest desires. Then revelations of truth that shakes her very core surfaced, the man behind Viktor's mask and Julian deception. But Layla must rise for herself and her secret child. Will she navigate the pile of lies, secrets, betrayal and temptations and still choose love?

On the marking ceremony with my Alpha mate, Sebastian Cole, my world falls apart. A pack of Rogue werewolves kills my mother. The one responsible is Sebastian's stepsister, Cassandra Cole. The security footage captures everything. Cassandra runs out of the cemetery, with a group of Rogues hot on her heels. She bolts into my mother's house, desperate to hide. My mother steps in to protect her and fights back, but in the struggle, her silver rifle is knocked away and lands right at Cassandra's feet. Cassandra could pick it up and kill those Rogues, but she doesn't. She just stands there with a faint smile, watching as the Rogue leader drives his claws through my mother's heart. Later, Sebastian tries to justify her actions. "Vivian, Cassandra was wrong this time... I promise I'll punish her." But I know what I saw. I believe it was murder, and I am bringing charges against Cassandra at the Elder Council Court. However, Sebastian begs me to drop the case. "If Cassandra goes to prison, it'll destroy her! Vivian, don't do this." I can hardly believe what I'm hearing. I refuse him without hesitation. So, he makes another choice. The night before the hearing, he locks me in the basement, trying to stop me from testifying. That's when it finally hits me. No matter what happens, Cassandra will always matter more to Sebastian than I do.

THE REVENGE OF THE HEARTLESS CEO Olivia Abertton is sweet, funny, and caring, the “apple of her father’s eye,” Ernest Abertton, despite being the daughter of an extramarital affair. Gabe Clifford is the CEO of the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. Intelligent, cunning, a heartless man capable of anything to get what he wants. He spent years plotting his revenge against the Aberttons. She remained kind and joyful, even as everything around her seemed to crumble. He wanted to destroy her to savor every tear of Ernest Abertton, the man he devoted his life to making suffer. She was in love with his brother. He spun the web, and she was the prey. What Gabe didn’t know was that revenge could be far sweeter than he imagined. Olivia, in turn, never imagined someone could be as unscrupulous and heartless as that man. A desire for revenge greater than anything. A woman determined to change her fate. A marriage treated as a business deal. He used her as a tool for revenge against the man he hated most. He just didn’t expect that meeting her would be his worst punishment.