Shirley Library

Special Agent Shirley, along with her partner Ackermann had been following this psychotic serial killer who called himself “ANGEL OF DEATH” for the crimes that he had continually committed over a period of about eight years. The two were the best in the entire police force, yet the so called angel of death outsmarted them like it was nothing. And they didn’t know how he did it, because he left no clues and he never made mistakes. After years of clueless investigations, they finally got their hands a video footage that showed him fleeing a crime scene. The video that was supposed to be the answer to all their unanswered questions, was rather a door that let in a million more.

"Shirley, I love you" they were the words of Ivan a rich boy from school. How can he love a simple girl like me. There are so many pretty and sexy girls from school like Kelly my best friend. She has all the qualities of being his girl. I am happy about this and I decide to tell Kelly the good news I also want her to give me advice about love affairs. will kelly be happy for me? what will be the end of my Love life with Ivan?

During a turf war, I took a bullet for Daniel Wilson. When I woke up in the family hospital after three years in a coma, I discovered that Eva, the showgirl I'd saved from a black market auction, had usurped my place in the Wilson family. My husband Daniel, the family's Underboss, saw that I was awake, and his first words to me were: "The entire underworld recognizes Eva as the woman by my side now. Why did you have to wake up at a time like this?" "Alice and I both love her. She's the one who's been by our side these past three years. And you? You've just been a body in a hospital bed, absent from our lives." "We're through, Sarah." Watching the man I once loved so deeply speak such heartless words, I didn't put up a fight. I simply nodded and gave him what he wanted. But he had no idea the Wilson family was about to burn to the ground.

Le Maître de la famille Moreau a été assassiné par une famille rivale, laissant derrière lui sa femme veuve, Irina. Son frère cadet, mon mari Gabriel, a pris sa place en tant que Maître de famille. Ce titre était assorti d'un devoir : assurer la pérennité de la lignée de Moreau en donnant un enfant à la veuve de son frère. « Adrienne est stérile depuis des années, c'est à Irina de faire ce qu'elle n'a pas pu faire, la famille Moreau ne peut pas être sans héritier. » La voix d'Isoline était pleine de mépris. Gabriel m'a serrée contre lui en murmurant des promesses. « Dès qu'Irina sera enceinte, je jure de ne plus jamais la toucher. » « Adrienne, tu es la seule que j'aime. » Trois mois, et il n'a pas mis les pieds dans notre chambre. Après qu'il m'ait ignorée devant tout le monde, choisissant Irina encore et encore, je suis finalement partie. J'ai pris ce qui m'appartenait et j'ai laissé une chose en partant : un test ADN. C'était mon dernier cadeau à Gabriel.

The night before my fiancé, Soren, and I were supposed to leave for Northern Europe to start our new life, the sounds of a lively discussion drifted from his private club. "Christ, Boss, are you insane? Why the sudden marriage alliance with the Rosetti family to make a play for Italy? Didn't you say you were getting out of the life with Abby and heading north?" Soren leaned back into a leather sofa, his voice nonchalant and muffled by a cloud of smoke. "Plans change. Besides, remember, I'm the one who made her who she is." "Once she sees the new empire I'm building, that little canary will come flying right back to my cage. The woman can't live without me." I stood in the shadows of the club, a wine glass in my hand, a dull ache blooming in my chest. The anniversary gift I had so carefully chosen for Soren was still in my purse, waiting for me to give it to him. I slipped out of the smoke-filled club, tossed the gift into the nearest trash can, and booked a one-way ticket to Northern Europe. But what he didn't know was that just as he could betray our future for Monica, I could abandon him for mine. All those years we spent dancing with death were never just for his sake.

My husband, Kieran, is the heir to the Thompson family. In the three years of our arranged marriage, he has never once touched me. I told myself he was just cold and guarded, that I could find a way into his heart, little by little. Then one day he came home drunk, pinned me to the bed for the first time, and called out his first love's name. "Camilla, all these years... I've thought of you every second of every day..." That was when I knew. All the passion and love he possessed was already spent on another woman. I pushed him away, burned every photo of us, and went to a high-end club in New York full of handsome male models. Nine months later, I walked into the airport with my newborn baby in my arms. Later, Kieran searched the world for me, his eyes bloodshot. He asked in a trembling voice why I never told him I was pregnant, why I wouldn't let him see our baby. I glanced at him and gave a light, breezy smile. "Who said the baby was yours?"

« Papa, j'ai accepté l'alliance matrimoniale avec la meute du Boisnoir. » Un silence s'est étiré de son côté du lien avant qu'il ne réponde enfin : « Caterina, es-tu certaine ? » « Je le suis. » Je ne lui ai pas dit la vraie raison. La nuit dernière, une douleur déchirante m'a transpercée à travers notre lien de compagnons. À travers ce maudit lien, j'ai tout vu… Mon Alpha, Rocco, était dans la cabane de ses terrains de chasse privés, clouant Scarlett, son amie d'enfance, contre le mur et l'embrassant avec une frénésie désespérée. Je l'ai confrontée directement lors de la réunion de la meute. Un éclair de triomphe brillait dans ses yeux avant qu'elle ne feigne l'innocence. « Caterina, je n'ai aucune idée de ce dont tu parles. » À ce moment-là, la voix de Rocco a rugi à travers le lien mental ouvert, résonnant dans les esprits de tous les présents. « Caterina, en tant que Luna de la meute, tu ne devrais pas créer une scène comme celle-ci. Scarlett n'est qu'une amie. » À cet instant, mon cœur est mort complètement. Il était mon Alpha, mon mari – l'homme avec lequel j'avais passé des années à l'aider à gravir les échelons du pouvoir. J'ai rompu mon lien mental avec Rocco. La douleur de cette déconnexion forcée était tellement intense que j'avais du mal à tenir debout, mais j'ai redressé ma colonne vertébrale et ai envoyé ma réponse. « Je serai à la maison dans deux semaines. » Retourner à la maison et épouser l'Alpha le plus puissant en France. On dit qu'il est froid et impitoyable, indifférent à toute louve. Parfait. Je n'ai pas besoin d'amour. J'ai juste besoin d'un Alpha assez fort pour m'aider à sécuriser la meute de la Lune Argente. Et quant à Rocco ? La Déesse Lune nous a donné un destin, et c'est lui qui l'a brisé de ses propres mains. Maintenant, je vais saisir le mien.

The day I married Santino Connor, he went from the infamous heir of a mafia fortune to a broke nobody. When he handed me a plastic ring in a shabby basement and asked if I would start from scratch with him, I looked at the man I had loved since I was a girl and nodded without a second thought. "Santino, as long as it was with you, I would do anything." For him, I worked more than ten hours a day until my stomach bled from the stress. Our son, from the moment he could walk, trailed me from one odd job to the next. I thought my love could eventually build us a life in the sun. Until, at a lavish banquet where I was serving the elite, he showered me with cash from his seat at the head of the table. "What's that thing crawling on the floor? It's blocking my view!" "Take the money and get out of my sight!" When I saw the woman by his side, her face an eerie copy of my own, I finally understood. To him, this was just a game, and I was the only one playing for keeps. If he was going to go to such lengths to deceive me, then it was time for his game to end. What he didn't know was that one month later, he would be tearing the world apart to find me.

Rocco Falcone, who is the Falcone family's Don and my so-called husband, hangs up on me for what feels like the 99th time. Having been diagnosed with leukemia, I haul my ravaged body into the family lawyer's office. "I'm here to file for a divorce," I said. … When Rocco hears about it, he barges in with my family ten minutes later. The moment he enters, he slaps me. "Did you use the emergency line just to ruin Sofia's big night? Are you out of your mind?" Lily Marone, my mom, snatches the diagnosis right out of my hand and skims through it. She chuckles dismissively. "Did you fake being sick just to get attention? How many lies have you told since you were a kid, Claire?" Sofia Moretti holds Rocco's arm with tears in her eyes. "Forgive me, Claire. I shouldn't have taken the position. Please stop hurting yourself and Rocco." I wipe the blood from my mouth and turn back to the lawyer. "I have no family left. Please hurry with the divorce paperwork. I need it settled before my cremation in three days."

At the Mercer family's annual dinner, I accidentally wore a couture gown that belonged to Lucian's late wife. The eight-year-old boy I had raised myself, in front of every key member of the Family, threw a glass of expensive red wine all over my pure white dress. He just stood there, his cold, condescending expression a mirror of his father's. "Don't think you can become the mistress of this house just by dressing like my Mamma." "I swear, when I'm old enough to take over the family business, I'll make you disappear for good!" The cold liquid soaked through the fabric, clinging to my skin. But I felt nothing. My heart had frozen solid the moment I signed my life away eight years ago. I looked at the child I had raised as my own for eight years. There was no anger. The faintest smile touched my lips. I leaned down and whispered in his ear, "You won't have to wait that long, my little lion. I'm leaving, and it will be very soon."