Novel & Cerita The Paying Guests

On the way home for the holidays, my wife, Sophie Hartman, and I were caught in a terrible accident. When I opened my eyes again, we had both gone back in time to before we ever fell in love. In our previous life, we'd been married for seven years. We were polite, respectful, and distant, almost like guests sharing the same house. And all those years, she never once agreed to have a child with me. It wasn't until later that I learned the truth. Sophie had never let go of the man she once loved. This time, I chose to set her free. We quietly deleted each other's contacts, kept our distance, and walked separate paths in life. … Seven years later, she became one of the most successful traders. At a class reunion, she announced her relationship with Vincent Parker, the man she had never forgotten. When she saw that I was still single, she couldn't resist teasing me. "Lucas, I know I've always been the one you love most, the one you're proudest of, but you don't have to spend your life waiting for me." I didn't respond. I simply took my son's hand. Sophie's face went pale. Her eyes reddened as she demanded, "You said you'd love me for life, that you'd only ever have children with me!"

I married my vampire husband ten years ago and gave him a half-blood heir, abandoning my career as a painter to become a full-time mother. Fortunately, my son inherited my talent. At just six years old, he held his first solo art exhibition, inspired by the theme "My Mother." But he never let me attend, and he never let me see his paintings. My husband said my presence would make Luke nervous---that I should stay home and do the housework as a good wife and mother, and wait for them to come back. I told myself he was just young and didn't know better, that he was only pushing back against my discipline, not truly rejecting me. Until the day I snuck into the gallery wearing a surgical mask pulled low. In the center of the crowd, my husband held our son's hand while tenderly pulling a woman in a red dress into his arms. He turned to the guests and announced: "This is Luke's mother---my wife." The three of them stood together, beaming with perfect happiness. And I---the one who'd stayed up all night setting up this exhibition---stood before the paintings while not a single person recognized me. That was when I finally understood. My seemingly gentle, caring vampire husband had long ago given our son a replacement mother. And I was nothing more than the human nanny who'd served her purpose by producing an heir.

My name is Oliver Blaese. I have an IQ of 145, a hacker's instincts, a mouth I can’t keep shut, and a list of men who shouldn’t be allowed to keep breathing. The courts won’t touch them. The press won’t do their jobs. So I find a Russian mercenary the size of a small building who runs the most lethal black-ops team in the world, and I make him an offer. He says yes. He also says other things. "On your knees." "Mine." Things in Russian he doesn’t bother to translate, that I look up later while bleeding from a cut he’s put his mouth on. Things I shouldn’t enjoy as much as I do. By the time the world is paying attention, the Syndicate is hunting us, my MI6 mother knows exactly what I’ve been doing, and Kirill is the only person who knows where every part of me lives. I don’t regret a single name. I don’t regret a single bullet. I definitely don’t regret him. MM dark romance. Heavy kink. Hard violence. Earned HEA.

"It's just for a few hours. Please, help me out." Lilian said. Her voice pleading, her eyes shimmering with unshed tears but she didn't break down in front of a random stranger. "Why would I?" Shane said coldly. Helping a stranger wasn't one of his virtues. "I will pay the price." Lilian said desperately. "Please, do me the favour." Shane stared at the girl standing in front of him. She really didn't seem to know him otherwise she wouldn't have mentioned about paying him. And looking at her, what possibly could she pay him! As if reading his mind, Lilian spoke up, "I will do whatever you ask me to do after this." Shane gave her an impassive expression before he asked, "Do I have your words on this?" "It's a deal." Lilian said not thinking much about what she was binding herself to. She never had a clear sky and was already at the dead end anyway. So, what worse possibly be awaiting her! Little did she know how Shane would be taking her up on that offer!

This is part 2 of “The Temptation of Adultery” The question is whether there is loyalty in love or not. The answer is, of course, yes, but it has never been considered obligatory. If loyalty were mandatory, “adultery” would not exist. Unfortunately, loyalty not only exists but is also a temptation so sweet that it's difficult to break free from. However, the price for loyalty is never cheap, and it never has been. Bella's husband and her close friend are paying the price for the karma they have created—the price they have to pay for betrayal, infidelity, and exploiting others is steep. But Bella is no exception either; the price she must pay may be far higher than that of the two who betrayed her. The man named Levi Karter, with whom Bella has been having an affair, is not an ordinary person. It wasn’t until everything was over that Bella realized she had made a deal with a demon for the sake of revenge. But no matter how much Bella struggled and tried to escape, she couldn't get away from him because… being bound and possessed by Levi was the price Bella had to pay after making a deal with him. To understand more, please read “The Temptation of Adultery” and then read “The Temptation of Adultery 2” The content is for 21+ readers, so please consider this before reading!

My marriage to Bryan wasn’t perfect, but it was never bad enough for me to want him dead. Yet when he was brutally murdered in a hotel room, every finger pointed at me. His family accused me. The world believed them I spent months behind bars for a crime I didn’t commit. My empire crumbled. My only child now sees me as a murderer. I was bullied, broken, and forgotten until Damon stepped back into my life. Damon, my ex-lover, is now fighting to clear my name. He has one goal: to set me free. But he has another theory, one more shocking than the accusation itself, My Husband could be faking his death to make me suffer and start a new life with his mistress . Freedom didn’t make life easier. Outside those prison walls, I’m paying for my husband’s mistakes while battling for custody of my son, his family took everything from me but what if i turned everything around in my favour? And the question haunting me remains: Or how long was my supposed dead husband going to keep hiding?

My mom calls me on Friday. "Don't forget about tomorrow's family dinner. Cody loves shrimps, so you should buy more of those at the seafood market in the southern district. "Lexi loves lamb chops. Go take a look in the eastern district for them. Also, don't forget to buy the imported strawberries. Noah loves them a lot." I say yes to each and every request Mom makes. But as soon as I end the call, I receive a text on the family group chat. "I've already given Eileen a list of our favorite foods. It's tough for you to earn money these days, so you shouldn't buy anything." One second later, that message is deleted. Still, I'm flabbergasted by what I just read. I've been married for two years. Every Saturday throughout those years, I'm the one paying and organizing the family dinner of the week. I thought there's no need to be so petty when it comes to family. But it seems that they've already viewed me as the outsider a long time ago. In that case, I won't be attending the family dinner anymore.

Twenty-one years old Amber Fernandez, only daughter of the over ambitious Alpha of the Moonlight Pack is spoiled, bratty and always gets whatever she wants. She’s to be mated to a powerful, over-ambitious Alpha in a few days' time when the unexpected happens and her father’s greedy plan backfires, and Amber finds herself paying for her father’s numerous crimes from being captured to be stripped of everything she once has. Amber is tortured, humiliated and turned into a sex slave by the Alpha of the Nightwalker Pack, Alpha Aiden. Twenty eight year old Alpha Aiden can’t seem to be satisfied with the tears of the daughter of the man that killed his sister, and so, he invents new ways to torture her and make her break and beg for mercy. He couldn’t help the attraction he feels towards her. She was sexy, fierce and mouthy; the exact traits he was attracted to, but his hatred for her was definitely stronger. He continuously plays her body like a string, and eventually, the hard hearted Alpha finds himself falling for Amber to his horror. But with an overly jealous girlfriend lurking in the shadows, and more secrets waiting to be unraveled, their love story doesn’t seem to be having a happy ending anytime soon.

They say one mate is fate. I have three! One marks me with fire. One touches my soul with silence. And the last one… wants to destroy me just to keep me. Sold by my mother to the infamous Del Piero clan, I thought I was just paying a family debt. But on that cursed island, I didn't find safety. I found...them! Three alphas. Three monsters in human skin. All tied to me by blood, instinct, and something far older than any legend. Matteo, the cold prince who claims my body before I understand what I am. Luca, the scarred warrior who bites first and speaks later. And Silas… the quiet one. The broken one. The one I can never let go of...no matter how dangerous he becomes. They say I'm the mate that will bind the pack or break the curse. But no one warned me about the heat. No one told me that pleasure would feel like pain. And no one prepared me for the night I would beg all three of them… to never let me go. One girl. Three alphas. No rules! No mercy! No escape!! Let the mating games begin...

"Noah, Don't do this…please!” Lucy pleaded desperately. The storm clouds that had gathered above them as they argued, and the deluge that had followed soon after, seemed quite fitting considering everything that had gone on today. Almost ten years of devoted love had been thrown away in what to Lucy seemed like nothing more than a heartbeat. “I told you already Lucy, it's over between us. I don't want this anymore.” **** After discovering her mate's betrayal with none other than her best friend, Cassandra, Lucy didn't think that life could get much worse, but Cassandra wasn't finished with her just yet. After paying the ultimate price Lucy finds herself thrust into an encounter with the Goddess herself who grants her an opportunity to return to her previous life in an effort to save not just her life, but her babies lives too. Once she is reborn she is faced with a choice, does she continue to pursue the man who cast her aside so easily? Or will she find herself drawn to the man from her youth that she had all but forgotten?