The Elevator By William Sleator Novels & Stories

In a world ruled by powerful Alphas, recessive Omega William Stone had never ever known love - from a father who saw him as worthless, to the family that sold him like a pheasant. Forced into a marriage with Jacob Adams, the feared underground dragon, William expects nothing but a cold marriage. But on the night he offers his body and soul for revenge against the family that betrayed him, something dangerous shifted. Jacob's hot touch brands him, his pheromones consume him, and despite every warning. William falls in love with the very devil he was sold to. When his love is ruthlessly rejected and Jacob's first love returns, William chooses the only thing that he can keep, which is the little life within him. He disappears, leaving behind the only man who ever made his lonely heart beat. Five years later, Jacob finds him. A single father raising their son. Jacob no longer the Alpha he used to be is desperate, possessive and determined to claim the Omega and child he never knew he needed. In a story of revenge, heartbreak and second chances, can a contract born of hatred bloom into a love worth fighting for? Despite the the scars of the past that run deep?

Katy neither wants to fall in love nor to get married. But she wanted a child. Son of you must have a perfect genetic code. Kevin William is a rich billionaire and a high-class werewolf. He is fully qualified become the father of her child. After seven years of planning, she will definitely get Kevin's sperm. At last, she was successful. But god, why isn't she pregnant yet? She always dreamed of her first time with him. It's okay, she won't give up. The first plan failed, she will continue to direct acting for the second plan.

On the night of her university graduation, Nooria Al-Fariz catches her boyfriend in bed with her best friend and flees to a hotel suite her sister Faiza promised would help her forget. Instead, Faiza’s “sparkling juice” leaves Nooria drugged and stumbling into the wrong room—straight into the arms of Valentino Delucca, the most feared mafia boss on the East Coast and the man her sister was supposed to marry. What begins as one brutal, addictive night of rough passion explodes into a public scandal when the press catches them tangled in sheets the next morning. To salvage his reputation and collect on a broken family promise, Valentino claims Nooria as his own. He demands she become his contract wife, come to his bed every night, and give him an heir—no exceptions, no escape. Terrified and betrayed, Nooria is torn between the guilt of betraying her sister, the shame of her family’s disgrace, and the dark, dangerous pull she feels toward the monster who alternates between punishing dominance and shocking tenderness. But the deepest secret is still hidden: the man who ruined her wasn’t alone that night. Valentino has an identical twin, Damien—and both brothers now refuse to let her go. In a world of blood oaths, arranged alliances, and obsessive possession, Nooria must decide whether to fight for freedom… or surrender to the two men who will burn everything down to keep her. A dark mafia romance with forced marriage, breeding kink, twin obsession, family betrayal, and intense spice.

‘The taste of her gets him addicted. ’*********************** Kiera Lancaster was a weak omega who had a passion for sport, so she attended a sports university where she met her fated mate, who was a captain of the hockey team, but she was brutally rejected in front of everyone, tarnishing her image. Rejected and heartbroken, Kiera got herself drunk only to wake up in bed naked the next morning with a strange man, who turned out to be the famous star of the hockey team and also one of the most powerful Alphas in the city. She feared for her life, so she ran away only to be found by the man, and he asked her to take responsibility for him, but she noticed after that night she could hear everyone's thoughts except his. Kiera's quiet college life was turned upside down with just a one-night stand that blew into the scandal of the century and also a strange power that posed a risk. Did you think Kiera could navigate her new life?

Everyone in my family knew I was a Bond-Seeker with ninety-nine lives. And still, not one of them loved me. During the holiday, I woke up early making breakfast for my family. My mother threw it all angrily. “You filthy little curse. Don’t dirty my kitchen.” When my father was hospitalized after a car accident, I stayed by his bed for three days and three nights. The moment he woke up, he grabbed the IV bottle beside him and smashed it against my head. “Was killing your twin sister not enough for you? Now you want me dead too?” I used my scholarship money to buy my elder brother a brand-new laptop. He threw it straight off the balcony and watched it shatter on the ground below. “I’m not using anything bought with a cursed girl’s money. I don’t want it shortening my life.” On my eighteenth birthday, I handed a love letter to Ethan Whitmore, the boy next door I had secretly loved for years. He tore it to pieces right in front of me. “What, were you hoping to trade my feelings for points? Get lost, Natalie. I don’t want you getting me killed.” In the end, the System ruled that my bond had failed. Then it took my life back. I thought no one would grieve for me. But before it disappeared, the System spent the last of its energy broadcasting every memory I had across every major platform.

Five years ago, Daniel Douglas publicly called off their engagement and sent her to prison himself. On the day of her release, Daniel took her to the hospital, demanding, "Serena Avery has been in a car accident and needs a kidney transplant. Give her yours." She refused, but he coerced her by all means. On the day of the surgery, her heart suddenly stopped and resuscitation failed. It was said that the man who wanted her dead wept at her grave for three days and three nights. Later, Daniel saw her again at the Douglas family home. She was already holding a five-year-old child, having married his elder brother Ethan and become his beloved and spoiled wife. Daniel: "Jasmine, I know I was wrong，please come back!" Ethan: "Get out! She's your sister-in-law now."

For six years, Zara Grey has lived under a curse she doesn’t understand. Six times, fate has given her a mate—only for each one to reject her and mysteriously vanish without a trace. Marked as unwanted, whispered about in every pack, she has steeled herself against hope. But when Kael Draven, the ruthless Lycan King, claims her as his mate, everything changes.

Elena Rivers was supposed to marry her fated mate. Instead, on their wedding day, Lucan Woods rejected her before all fifteen packs of Roseville and marked her best friend in her place. Humiliated and broken, Elena swears revenge. But while hunting the truth behind Lucan’s betrayal, she meets Nicholas Hale—a dangerous stranger with scars, secrets, and eyes that make her wolf go still. Nicholas knows exactly who Elena is. And he knows something she doesn’t. Lucan was never her mate. What Elena believed was fate… was a lie created with forbidden magic. Now trapped between revenge, war, and a bond she never saw coming, Elena must decide what matters more: destroying the man who ruined her… or trusting the one who could ruin her even worse.

“If you leave this palace tonight, you become prey” Lyra Vale got rejected by her fated mate like yesterday’s trash, hauled into enemy land, and turned into the single most lethal prize a blood-soaked kingdom has ever drooled over. In Dravenhold they don’t chain prisoners. They drape them in silk that costs more than most packs see in a lifetime and call them queen. Kael Draven, the Enemy King, had every reason to slit her throat the second she hit his dirt. Instead he put his mouth to her ear and claimed her protection. Claimed her. Now the whole damn continent whispers the same filthy truth: her blood can make kings. Or drown them. The past won’t stay buried. Rowan, the Alpha who ripped her heart out to “save his people,” creeps back through the shadows with one desperate, cocky demand: come back to me. Stay here and she becomes Kael’s living blade, soaked in power and whatever else he decides to take from her body. Leave, and she lights the match that turns every pack into smoking graves. One man wants her soul to rule with. The other already shattered it and still thinks he deserves the pieces. Lyra’s done being the girl who waits to be chosen. In a world where power gets ripped out of throats, not politely handed over… she isn’t prey anymore. She’s the f*cking throne. And she’s deciding who bleeds for the right to sit on it.

To be rejected by your fated mate is to be marked for death. Sloane Thorne has the scar to prove it. A rejection mark from Crew Harding, the boy who spent their entire lives tormenting her before destroying her in front of the entire pack. He murders her family, steals everything, and leaves her with a cursed mark that's slowly killing her. Three months later, she's hiding under a fake name when she collides with Kai Volkov. The Ice King. A second mate bond snaps into place. He sees Crew's mark on her skin. Assumes she's a spy and rejects her immediately. But Kai can't stay away. The bond won't let him. He takes her captive, swears it's for answers, but obsession doesn't need an excuse. Every touch sets them on fire. Every stolen glance is a war neither can win. Then Kai discovers what Crew has been hunting. What Sloane's family died protecting. What's been sleeping inside her all along. And suddenly, she's not just his mate. She's the weapon that could destroy them all. Now Crew wants her back. Collared, caged and his. But Kai Volkov doesn't share what's his. And Crew is about to learn that the hard way. But Sloane? She's done being claimed by Alphas who think she's theirs to break. Blood will spill. Alphas will fall. The question is whether she'll survive long enough to watch.