Stefan Salvatore Smiling

Three months after fleeing my wedding, I unexpectedly ran into my ex-fiancé at a high-society gathering in the capital. Out of the blue, someone asked me, "Teresa, I saw on social media that you're getting married again?" "Ms. Carter, when can we celebrate your big day?" Smiling confidently, I replied, "Next month." In an instant, everyone began congratulating me and Daniel. After all, everyone knew he had been my fiancé. After the party, Daniel cornered me, his tone sharp. "You're the one who ran away from the wedding, and now you're the one rushing to get married? Do you think this is funny?" I found his reaction amusing. Fixing him with an icy stare, I said with a faint smirk: "Who said my new groom is you?"

My fiancé, Owen Lockhart, came from old money. He kept a canary in a gilded cage, spoiling her rotten. Just as I was about to break off the engagement with him, a barrage of comments suddenly popped up in my mind. [What did Owen do wrong? He just wanted to get your attention.] [Don't break up with him. All you need to do is shed a few tears, and he'll give you everything.] I turned my head, and through the window, I saw the canary in her high-end jewelry, smiling brightly as she hooked her arm around Owen's. He lazily lowered his eyes, yet his expression held a hint of indifference mixed with a subtle affection. I smiled bitterly, replying to the lawyer's message: [Go on with drafting the engagement annulment agreement.]

"You stupid Lockhart's have always assumed you can get away with anything and everything. But not anymore. As your king, I can assure you, that you and your kind will never rule again. I might be mated to you, but I would never be your mate. The only thing stopping me from ending your miserable life is that mark on your neck. Otherwise, I would have snapped that wriggly thing you call a spine by now. But for letting you live, there are ground rules. You are a servant here. Being my mate gives you absolutely nothing more than a right to live and breathe, the same air that we breathe here. Not that your kind deserves it." ***** Sonaya Lockhart's world explodes when she turns eighteen. She is a queen in danger of never ruling, her family is been hunted down and killed by the king. But when she is captured she would need to find the will to fight for what is hers. King Stefan Lygion is desperate to find his mate and it's not for love. He needs her dead so he can marry the one he has chosen. He doesn't care for the moon goddess and her stupid mate bond.

I’d been dead a month before my family even noticed. It wasn’t concern that brought them to that realization. It was my silence after the so-called “dinner” with Adam Rossi, the infamous mafia boss. My father scoffed like always,“She probably shacked up with that bastard. Too busy spreading her legs to pick up the damn phone.” My sister texted me a photo of them smiling under the Christmas tree, ornaments twinkling like nothing was wrong. Bitch, she wrote. You better talk Mr. Rossi into working with Dad, or you might as well be dead already. And my mother—once the softer one—was now colder than the frost on their windows. “I told you, we should’ve sent Gia to charm Mr. Rossi. Serena always screws things up.” They didn’t think I would die. Not until they found my body—broken, rotten, and forgotten—in Adam Rossi’s basement.

Nico Venturi and I fell in love on the college campus. We got married, and he supported my studies and career. We planned to have four children and raise them to adulthood. Everything was beautiful until one day, he lay in the ICU, begging me to let him die rather than live as a vegetable. Only a child could keep him alive. I fabricated the news of my pregnancy, and then, trembling with fear, I pleaded with Salvatore, the cold, arrogant head of the Venturi family, to impregnate me. But I never expected my plea to come with an explicit price tag—the cost would be his complete possession of me. "Fifteen days of complete availability. You come when I call, do what I ask, no hesitation, no questions. At the end of that time, I'll arrange for the medical procedure." He sat in his luxury car, sizing up my beautiful, naked body.

The Devil You Called Grimace. Hunger. Love like a curse. They say some doors open only once. She opened hers with three red candles, a drop of blood, and a whisper. Lonely nights, overdue rent, and a heart too heavy to carry — that’s all it took to call him through. Malik. The man made of smoke, shadow, and everything her prayers forgot to protect her from. He came smiling, with promises sweet as sin — protection, money, revenge. Every favor he gave her tasted like salvation until she realized he was feeding on her, one piece at a time. A memory here. A dream there. Her laughter swallowed whole. Now he’s the warmth in her sheets and the whisper in her nightmares. The devil she named, the lover she can’t unmake. Because Malik wasn’t summoned. He was chosen. And love — the kind that burns red under candlelight — always demands a body to keep it alive.

Catarina Piromalli est une jeune femme dont la vie a été marquée par la tragédie depuis son enfance. À l'âge de quatre ans, elle a été témoin de la perte de ses parents, Beatrice et Andrea Piromalli, dans un terrible accident de voiture lors d'une poursuite. Cependant, son destin a pris un tournant inattendu lorsque Don Salvatore Mancuso, le puissant chef de la Ndrangheta, l'a sauvée du chaos de cette nuit fatidique. Catarina a grandi à l'ombre de la Ndrangheta, élevée comme une fille adoptive par la famille Mancuso. Cependant, la vie de Catarina a pris un tournant inattendu lorsque Dante, l'héritier des affaires de la famille Mancuso, qui avait auparavant montré un profond mépris pour elle, a surpris tout le monde en confessant son amour pour elle le jour de son dix-huitième anniversaire. Le dilemme de Catarina s'est intensifié lorsqu'elle a réalisé que son affection pour Dante grandissait également, malgré leur éducation comme frère et sœur. Leur amour interdit a défié non seulement les règles de la mafia, mais aussi les plans que Don Salvatore avait pour l'avenir de son fils, des plans qui n'incluaient pas une relation avec Catarina. Catarina et Dante sont sur le point de faire face à des choix difficiles qui façonneront non seulement le cours de leurs vies, mais aussi le destin de la Ndrangheta, alors qu'ils essaient de trouver un moyen de vivre l'amour interdit qu'ils ressentent l'un pour l'autre.

Isabella Castellano wants freedom from her father’s control. When he forces her into marriage with Vittorio Romano, a man known for cruelty, she decides to fight back. The only person powerful enough to help her is Dante Salvatore, her childhood rival and the one man she never thought she would need. She asks him to pretend to be her fiancé so she can escape the arranged marriage. He agrees, but only on his own terms. Living together for the act brings back every memory of their years of rivalry and every feeling they tried to hide. What started as a lie begins to feel real, and one kiss changes everything. Now the world believes she is his, and his enemies come after her to hurt him. Their deal turns into danger and their act turns into love, but in Crimson Bay love can destroy everything they’ve built.

"Qubool hai(I accept)," I said with great difficulty and a lone tear escaped from my eyes. I looked at my husband and found him smiling at me. His smile was so mysterious and unusual which created a shiver in my whole system. At the time of Rukhsati(sending off the bride), my mother requested to my husband," Please, take care of her." " Don't worry. I will love her and take care of her so much that she will forget her own family," He replied chuckling but I felt something fishy in his voice. Will he really love me and take care of me the way he is promising to my mother? Erina was just a 22-year-old girl when she was forcefully married to a stranger. She is doubtful about this stranger's intention behind marrying her. Will she ever come to know about her stranger husband's intention?

In my last international car racing championship, the front tire of my car suddenly burst, causing the car to roll over. The cars behind me collided with me one by one. After 99 times, I was unrecognizable from the impacts. Just as I reached out to my boyfriend for help by instinct, he kicked me away, my body covered in blood and flesh. “Don't dirty my newly tailored clothes today.” He turned around, picked up the champion who had just crossed the finish line, and spun her around, smiling and saying: “Sharon, only the championship trophy is worthy of you. I will remove all obstacles for you.” Blood stained my entire body. Watching the two of them embrace as the sun set, I felt numb and desperate. What he didn't know was that among these red stains was the child who had just come into this world. At that moment, I gave up on continuing to love him.