Tally Marks Crossword Clue

To avoid a brutal war, the alpha of Blue Ridge Pack reluctantly agrees to an arranged marriage between his beta's daughter Piper and his enemy's son. His son, Xander, learns of his plan to sacrifice Piper and helps Piper run away. Xander makes her promise to stay hidden until she finds and marks her destined mate. A few years later, after she turns 20 and is able to identify her mate, Piper begins to struggle with stomach pain. She assumes that the pain is caused by the herbs she is taking to mask her identity. Unfortunately, Piper's world crushes down around her when she discovers that the stomach pain is not really stomach pain at all… she is experiencing betrayal pains. The only problem? She does not know who her mate is. As the betrayal pains become more frequent and more destructive, Piper must race to find both her mate and the reason that neither he, nor she, recognize one another.

"Today marks three years of our marriage, yet you've never looked into my eyes, hugged me, or shown any physical intimacy. Your father and everyone else think I'm barren! No one would believe that we've never been intimate. I'm tired of living this lie! I'll have to tell your father the truth; perhaps they'll stop blaming me!" Aurora exclaimed angrily, her frustration boiling over. "If you dare breathe a word of that to my father, mark my words; it'll be your last day. I'll personally strangle you, you old hag!" Caspian threatened, pointing a menacing finger at her. Aurora was treated disdainfully by everyone; the man she got married to never for once showed her love, not until she got a secret revealed to her by her grandparents. She planned to get revenge secretly on those that have hurt her in the past while working towards achieving her most incredible dreams and desires!

Victor murmured 'Happy Birthday Misha' as he fed me a small piece of cake. Wait! Why was he sounding so husky all of a sudden? Stop it! As usual, I was imagining things. I shook my head as I sliced a piece of cake with cherry and tried to feed him. But the icing was soft, and the cake began to slip away from my fingers. Victor grabbed my hand...(Oh my! I will remember this day forever!)... Closed his mouth around the cake and my fingers! And a hot rush which started somewhere in my core began to spread inside with lightning speed and I felt my cheeks burn. His mouth was so warm and his lips, they were everything I imagined them to be, and more. My lips parted as I watched him close his eyes and lick my fingers. There was something so sensual and possessive about it that I began to wonder the same thing all over again. Does Mr Popular and youngest pilot from his academy, Victor Matthews finally got a clue that I have been secretly in love with him all these years?

Her One Night Stand was hot and enticing. It gave her very intense feelings that she hadn’t felt before. But that was all Nara Aurora could remember of that night. She couldn’t remember anything else. She had no clue who she had sex with or why she had sex with him. But life made things worse by giving her a child. A child whom she couldn’t afford to take care of. She needed to pin the pregnancy on whomever she could. Anyone at all! Anyone who would collect the burden of her child in exchange for cash. A wealthy man in need of a surrogate mother came to her and an idea struck her mind. What if she lied about the surrogacy in exchange for wealth? Well that sounded easier than done until it was time to let her child go. Her strong motherly instincts came into play and she realized she couldn’t let her go. Her child was her life and she was getting too attached. But what could she do? She needed to let her go. She had to let go. She signed a freaking contract!

Emily Silver's life has been a relentless journey through heartache and betrayal. Meeting her destined mate, Jacob Galahad, who abandons her the next morning. This marks the beginning of Emily's harrowing descent into tragedy: she loses her wolf abilities, endures a five–year tribulation and loses another potential love. After suffering the weight of all these, she gets captured by a rogue king. Emily is kidnapped and sold to Alan Black, an ancient werewolf king who uses dark magic to sustain his life. Her escape from clutches leads her to encounter Alan's twin brother, Aiden, which triggers a descent into madness. As Emily becomes a feared Berserker, she is eventually captured by the skilled wolf hunter, Ransom Fayne. Despite initial hostility, Ranson's uncaring disposition offers Emily unexpected solace. Emily must gain her strength and take her rightful place as the queen. How possible would that be? Find out in this intriguing and suspense filled story.

Rejected and destroyed beyond words, Amora finds her way to the big city, abandoning her war and darkness torn pack. Fate had it way and she crossed paths with her second chance mate, Deven who is consumed by hatred and marks her as his enemies. She is a werewolf and he is a hybrid creature, a werewolf and vampire mixed. She lives like a normal human in the human world because of how her mate rejected her which caused the whole park to also reject her. He is a mafia boss and he rules the underworld in the human and werewolf world ruthlessly but sweetly in the vampire world. The werewolves from his mother side killed his entire family, he is known to hate the werewolves so much and doesn't hesitate to clear them. Revenge and vengeance was heavy on their mind as they saw they had the same enemy. Tired of hiding and ready to deal with his enemy, he joins hands with Amora to fight him but now, they are not only facing their enemy as they unravel secret on secret.

Lira is the weakest Omega of the Moonblessed pack, where wolves are blessed with special gifts under the full moon. She failed to shift and this has made her an outcast. When war breaks out against their sworn enemy, the ruthless Alpha Damien of Blackthorne pack, the Moonblessed pack are defeated. To save themselves they agree to his demand of a sacrifice. Lira's father does the unthinkable and condemns her to death before the pack. Worst of all, it is her own mate Ronin who offers her up as a sacrifice. Betrayed by her father and pack, Lira thinks she is destined to die. But exile from her pack leads her into the arms of Alpha Damien, a man whose love she doesn't expect. He marks her, unlocking the gifts that are buried deep within her, revealing the strength of a powerful Luna. Will she use her new found power to take revenge on the pack that left her for dead or will she uncover a darker truth about herself that would cost her everything she has just gained?

Seven years after registering our marriage, my husband Gaius and I finally decided to hold the romantic wedding ceremony we had missed back then. That day, I wore the wedding gown I had designed myself and walked toward him with hopeful eyes. Before I could deliver my carefully prepared vows, an incident interrupted the moment. Amid the stunned murmurs of the guests, Gaius dashed toward the woman who had fainted—again—at my wedding. His voice trembled with urgency, eyes burning red. "Call an ambulance! Now!" He didn't even look back as he left the wedding hall. When the wedding bell rang seven times, I calmly pulled off my veil. Facing the guests who had yet to disperse, I smiled and said, "As you can see, today marks the divorce ceremony between Gaius and me. Please, eat and drink to your heart's content. Don't let the trip go to waste!"

Zendaya was hated and plotted against by every member of her Pack ,her parents died immediately she turned Eighteen years old due to an ancient prophecy which her parents refused to listen to. After their deaths she was accused of flagitious crimes by her uncle ,whose sole aim is to become the ruler of Elite Pack which led to the people throwing her out of the pack under the influence of her uncle's manipulative schemes. Immediately she stepped foot out of her Pack she became sentimental and suddenly found herself acting like a lunatic ,this was as a result of the evil magic used on her. Left wandering on the streets ,she came across so many pernicious things which are meant to subdue her but Dave came to her rescue ......but that marks the beginning of a new found devil and she must learn to survive on her own otherwise they won't spare her. But What happens when her powers emerges on the full moon night? She won't spare anyone

WARNING: Not suitable for young readers or sensitive minds. Some parts contain graphic sex scenes, adult language, and situations intended for mature readers only. TESSIMOND COUSINS SERIES #2 As an only child of the Fortezo family, Myca is set to marry the man of her choice at a party with her entire clan and distant relatives. She never believed that she would have a good life if she marries her male cousin from a distant relative as her family believed. So she ran away and hid on a private island. She thought fate would never play with her life again. She still believed that she could change her parents' decision if she stayed on that island for a few days. But she finds a stout man lying unconscious on the shore of her island whom she believes he has drowned. What if fate plays with their lives? What if Myca's simple admiration for the man turns into something else? What if this man marks her?