The Price Of Time

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.

Escaping from the captive of her terrible boyfriend, Jane presumed she could start afresh. Be happy and forget about the past. Little did she know that escaping from her boyfriend would lead to the beginning of disaster. She was the price to pay for her father's debts, but instead she was auctioned to a Mafia. Alexander, the ruthless Mafia Lord, always played his cards right. Killing two birds with one stone. 80 million dollars was worth risking to acquire the club and the unexpected lot. But what if innocent Jane wasn't just an auctioned item but also the price for a debt owned to the Mafia Lord.

She was the price of a debt. He was the punishment she never saw coming. When Piper’s family business crumbles under the weight of betrayal, her father strikes a deal with billionaire Rowan Archer—one that comes with a chilling price: Piper’s hand in marriage. Rowan doesn’t believe in love. And Piper has no intention of playing the obedient bride. In a mansion that feels more like a prison and a marriage built on control, Piper must either fight the man who owns her freedom or risk falling for the one she swore to hate. The contract was only the beginning. What’s brewing between them could burn them both.

BLURB: My life has never been my own to live or control. At age eighteen, I am sold to the Lycan King by my father – a man everyone fears for his cruelty and respects for his power. Cast into a world ruled by his steel-hard will, I am doomed to be nothing more than a servant in his palace. Tristan Price is everything I detest: cold and unfeeling, arrogant and merciless – and completely out of my reach. But each time he's close, my unfaithful heart beats faster, and I don't know if I want to flee from him or into his arms. Is this my fate? To be the servant of a man who treats me as nothing more than property? Or is there something more than that behind those icy eyes, maybe I'm just delusional. Maybe escaping is the better option, especially after I find out that I'm pregnant with the child of the most hated man in town.

[A Mermaid x Mafia Boss Fluffy Romance] "Stay away from humans," Aqua's mother used to tell her. Until the age of eighteen, she spent most of her time in the deep depths of the ocean. Occasionally, she would swim to the pier at night when there were no humans to explore. One fateful night, a human fell from the sky covered in blood. Using her tears, Aqua saved the mysterious man and spiralled into a life of crime. Dawn Daniels did not expect to live. His advisor had betrayed him and tossed him into the cold watery depths. Yet, like a ray of light, he was given another chance to live by a mysterious mermaid like no other maiden. Touched by her gentle and innocent nature, Dawn tries to live his new life with her but his past catches up to him. Dying for the third time without a way for Aqua to save him using her immortality, the unlucky couple exchanged one last vow, transforming their lives forever. For the price of granting him a new life, Aqua loses her voice forever. Dawn promises to take care of her for as long as they live and marries her. Away from their tragic pasts, follow Dawn and Aqua as they learn more about each other's species and fall deeper each day. [Completed]

When the scholarship cancellations occurred at the University of Houston, Aileen was devastated as she was in her third year of university and would not be able to continue studying because of it. A year later, she meets the person responsible for the cancellation of her scholarship and those of many other girls: Oliver Price, the owner of a prestigious club on the outskirts of Houston: Moonlight and CEO of one of the most important companies in the country. Aileen decides to take revenge with some pranks, without imagining that she would be trapped in the life of the man she hated the most, but there was a small problem and many secrets: Oliver proposes a deal to free herself from her father's pressures: to commit to her while her ex bride gets married Aileen decides to accept and sign the contract on the condition that when he finishes he returns her scholarship. Now they have to pretend to be very much in love but time will make them understand that they had not pretended at all and that they were completely in love with each other.

Jennifer Johnson is a young teenage girl, lived her entire life with the Stone family where she was adopted, she is a fearless werewolf who stops at nothing to have what she thinks belongs to her, she falls in love with alpha Larry of the Gaylord's family and believe she will be chosen by him as his mate but things do not go as expected for he dumps her and chooses her sister, she is heartbroken and gets even more confused when she learns the alpha's true intentions, she is captured by the Gaylord's and locked away in a secret place. She overhears the Gaylord's plans on wiping the other packs and discovers some ways to deal with them, she is saved by his long term crush, a human , Tyler wayne who has always been in love with her for a long time, she runs away with him and start a life far from the Gaylord's and finally come to meet her real brother, Andrew Johnson, she gangs up with him and the vampires together with the witches lead by Amelia Storm to fight the Gaylord's and end their reign but things don't go as planned for they make her suffer and take her brothers life at the time she needed him the most, she goes through a lot and deals with the Gaylord's to the last one of them but pays yet a huge price at the end.

Vivienne Moonborne was born by whim of the Moon goddess Selmara, and heir to the most revered pack in the realm. Until the night everything burned. Her parents were slaughtered. Her wolf silent. Her mate—Silas Vale—betraying her in the arms of another. She was sold into the Lycan slave trade and marked as nothing more than breeding stock for the highest bidder but Vivienne was never meant to be anyone’s pawn. Beneath her skin burns the truth of her birthright: she is the last Silvercrown. A Rune-marked silver wolf born of prophecy and power. Her blood can save or enslave. Her enemies want to control her but when fate collides with fire, a new legacy rises. Rescued by Cassius Noctbourne the ruthless Alpha King of Noctshire. Vivienne is offered protection but protection has a price and love… is the most dangerous game of all. She was betrayed once. She won’t be again. The wolf they tried to bury is back and this time, she’s hunting for vengeance.

Poisoned, stabbed, and betrayed by the man she trusted most, Kaida Reed dies praying for a second chance—and gets it. She wakes three years earlier, one month before her wedding. Alive. Breathing. Still wearing the ring that will one day kill her. This time, love is off the table. Revenge is everything. To take it, she turns to the one man her enemy fears most: Zavian Nolven. Dark, untouchable, and lethal in ways power alone can’t match. He sees the fire Kaida hides behind her control... and he wants it. But his help comes at a price, one that could consume her body, corrupt her heart, and shatter the careful control she’s clung to for years. Trusting him could ruin everything. Loving him could be fatal. But as the past fractures and danger closes in, Kaida realizes survival may not be enough— Because when desire turns deadly, who truly survives?

When a mafia princess is forced to marry the son of her family's greatest rival, hate turns into obsession, betrayal bleeds into desire, and war becomes the price of love.