Started At Zero

When the girlfriend of my childhood friend, Shane Sheridan, comes over for the first time, I help to prepare a feast to welcome her. Lydia Forestwood glances at the garlic butter shrimp and suddenly flies into a rage. "You deliberately made something I'm allergic to! You want to embarrass and badmouth me in front of my boyfriend so you can take my place. Stop dreaming! If he were ever interested in you, then I wouldn't be here." I'm confused and quickly explain that his mom broke her leg and asked me to come and help. I also explain that I already have a fiancé and have zero interest in Shane. She lets out a cold laugh. "Stop playing hard to get. I can spot a scheming woman in a glance. You cling to my boyfriend shamelessly by claiming to be his close childhood friend every day. It's disgusting! "Take a good look at yourself. You're old and ugly. What man would ever want you? If there's one, he'd have to be blind." Shane is holding back laughter the whole time. Just as I clench my fists, ready to lose my temper, he wraps an arm around his girlfriend and shows off smugly. He says, "She has a sharp tongue, doesn't she? Finally, there is someone who can put you in your place. You won't be able to bully me from now on." I stare at his indifferent expression and slap him hard across the face. "Get lost! Both you and your girlfriend aren't even worthy of my time!"

Opening my eyes in an unfamiliar place with unknown faces surrounding me, everything started there. I have to start from the beginning again, because I am no longer Ayla Navarez and the world I am currently in, was completely different from the world of my past life. Rumi Penelope Lee. The cannon fodder of this world inside the novel I read as Ayla, in the past. The character who only have her beautiful face as the only ' plus ' point in the novel, and the one who died instead of the female lead of the said novel. She fell inlove with the male lead and created troubles on the way. Because she started loving the male lead, her pitiful life led to met her end. Death. Because she's stupid. Literally, stupid. A fool in everything. Love, studies, and all. The only thing she knew of, was to eat and sleep, then love the male lead while creating troubles the next day. Even if she's rich and beautiful, her halo as a cannon fodder won't be able to win against the halo of the heroine. That's why I've decided. Let's ruin the plot. Because who cares about following it, when I, Ayla Navarez, who became Rumi Penelope Lee overnight, would die in the end without even reaching the end of the story? Inside this cliché novel, let's continue living without falling inlove, shall we?

Like they say, we find love in the most unlikely places. It was love at first sight for him. Dash always found beauty in the most weirdest things, places and even people. That day, he had hit Rosario with his car, that was when he first saw her. He came from a dangerous mob family and he knew he had nothing to offer her, but the feelings were already there, so he made it his mission to avoid her, though it didn't help that they attended the same school. He couldn't ignore her for long so he decided to allow himself to live for once even after knowing it might end disastrously. He asked her out against his dad's will and they started dating. Rosario's mother was against the relationship too. One day she came to know something deep and bad about Dash and started blackmailing him with it to leave her daughter alone. Due to some life threatening events she went through with him. She pieced things together. People were after him. Eventually Rosario found out all about his lies and deceit and secrets and she was left disappointed and scared. What scared her more was who was after Dash. Not just his family enemies... But his own dad. Will Dash be forced to leave her to give her a chance at living peacefully?

At the team dinner, everyone started hyping Peggy Madoff and me up to call our partners. Before I could even move, Peggy—runner-up to my top spot—whipped out her phone. "Babe, everyone's making me call you!" she giggled. On the line? Gerard Busch. Yeah, the CEO. He laughed. "Guess I'll be counting on you all to look after Peggy," he said. Cue the gasps and cheers. I just kept downing my wine. Because Gerard? He was my husband.

Kylie Robert is a heiress of her family, she felt a lot of pressure because of this title. One night after the party a mistake happens that alters her dad's mind which removing her as his heiress. Because of that mistake Kylie's life started to suffer and as the result of that mistake, she bears a child. Little did she know that this child's father is a billionaire which becomes her boss. What will happen to her life once she knew that her child's father is also her boss?

You're nothing! An omega- worse than filth. You'll never be my Luna!” Her mate, the alpha, had shouted the words at Meg and then she found him in bed with the beta's daughter, Beth. She thinks of the baby in her tummy. It deserves to live, and it also deserves a life better than an omega's one. Leaving this life behind seemed logical. She would forget she loved Soren and provide for herself and their baby, she vowed as she started down into the deep dark waters of the wide river.

Talia's life is so unfortunate and miserable. Her obsession with the loved one's death drove her mad. She dreams of escaping her life, but she can't. Talia needs money, so she came to Kosho and started her plan. Here, she met Daniel Henrotin. Daniel gave her a huge amount of money, along with an offer. But why did he do that? There is something fishy about Daniel Henrotin. He is flirtatious and often changes sweethearts. Perhaps Talia would be his next prey.

Finding out you are getting married the next day all of a sudden is not something to be joked with. Who am I kidding? I’m the one getting married. Jasmine Taylor: A beautiful elegant independent woman was forced to be in an arranged marriage with Nicholas Damien. Being a scumbag, he hated her and had the intention of suffering her. What will happen when he suddenly started falling for her? When she was accused and they both divorced? When she comes back five years later with a baby which was his?

“I, Arianna De Mori, reject you, Alpha Dean Ivanov, as my mate and Alpha.” She said, ignoring the clench that she felt in her chest as she held onto her baby. The Alpha frowned for a second before nodding. “I, Alpha Dean Ivanov, Pakhan, and Alpha of Alphas, accept your rejection.” *********************** It started as a mission, one with no remorse against the rivaling pack. But when Arianna gives into her mating bond, complications occur. Would the Alpha and his Luna be able to surpass those apposing to their bond? Or would their rejection be their end?

They were supposed to be on the same team. Santos Khyle arrived in Seattle as the Soul Reapers' most anticipated rookie in years, a natural-born scorer with something to prove and a chip on his shoulder the size of a regulation puck. Gunner Jäger had been tearing up the ice as the team's feared enforcer for two seasons, and he had zero interest in sharing his spotlight with some orange-haired twenty-one year old who looked at him like he was a problem to be managed. From the moment they met, it was war. On the ice, they were a disaster. Off it, they were worse. Screaming matches in corridors. Fists through locker room walls. A live on-air brawl that made every highlight reel in North America and earned them both a suspension, a lecture from their furious coach, and the undivided attention of the entire hockey world. Nobody could stand to watch them together. Nobody could look away either. Because underneath the fury and the bruises and the months of spectacular mutual destruction, something else was building. Something neither of them had language for yet. Something that felt uncomfortably like the only fight either of them was actually afraid to lose. The Soul Reapers are one playoff run away from everything. Gunner and Khyle are one honest conversation away from falling apart completely. Or maybe, just maybe, from finally figuring out what they are to each other. Pucking Up the Ice is a slow burn MM romance set in the brutal and beautiful world of professional hockey. It contains explicit language, on-ice violence, emotional gut punches, two men who are absolutely terrible at feelings, and a love story that had to break everything before it could build something worth keeping.