There's A Snake In My Boots

My back slams against the door, my breaths shallow and heavy, I try to move but his hold remains. “ What are you doing? My boyfriend is the other room!” I whisper, trying to ignore how hard my heart’s racing right now. He draws closer, the distance between us vanishing in one step. His tatted arms brace the door, caging me between them. “ The same boyfriend who's on a date with another woman?” My pride takes a hit but I meet his eyes. “ It's fake.” I say more to me than him. “ It isn't.” He tilts his head, I want to say something to defend Chris but his lips rest gingerly on my nape, drowning the rest of my words— a breathy moan slips past my lips. “ If I had you…” he plants a kiss. “ I would never make you a second option.” ****** When Zinnia’s older brother has to leave the country for a year for a business trip so he sends her to live with his best friend who also happens to be her secret long distance boyfriend. When she gets there, she expects a warm welcome but she sees the man she loves in the arms of another. He tells her it's fake. That his parents arranged it for a business deal. She believes him. But his older brother doesn't seem to agree. He mocks her, makes her mad but beneath? He wants her and would do anything to have her. A bet. “ If my brother leaves her for you, I'll vanish and never bother you again.” He leans close, my throat tightens. “ But if he doesn't, you're mine.” Now Zinnia must do everything to ruin the marriage but what happens when she starts to fall for the very person she swore she wouldn't?

My Alpha husband, Ryder, has always hated the sound of a crying pup. But recently, he started caring for my adopted sister's newborn pup, staying by its side in the nursery every night until dawn. Every time Ryder left our bedroom for the nursery, an inexplicable stabbing pain would pierce through my chest. This agony would last all night until dawn when he returned. I had finally reached my breaking point. At the Full Moon Festival, I announced in front of the entire pack that I was rejecting our mate bond. The pack's mind-link erupted with whispers that the battle had damaged my mind. A golden light ignited in Ryder's eyes as he stared at me in disbelief. "Because I was too busy to check on you when you were injured, you're rejecting our bond over a six month old pup?" I didn't meet his eyes. Instead, my gaze lingered on the faint lipstick mark smudged inside his collar. My voice trembled, yet it did not waver. "Since you love her pup so much, once our bond is severed, you can openly be the father."

Zayne Bellandi was never supposed to matter. Not as my best friend’s brother, not even as my ex-boyfriend’s best friend. And definitely not like this. He’s dangerous, annoying, untouchable. The kind of man who ruins lives without even trying. But one night blurred every line I swore I’d never cross. Now he looks at me like I already belong to him, like walking away isn’t an option. And maybe it isn’t. Because the more I try to resist him… the more I realized I don’t want to.

“My mate is my sister’s husband.” I was born with a bond I was never allowed to claim.My twin sister stole the Alpha fated to be mine, and my parents buried the truth to protect their power. While she stood beside him as Luna, I was forced to watch my mate look at me as nothing more than his disgraced sister-in-law. When I dared to defy her, he chose her. Punished me. He banished me. Years later, fate drags me back to the pack I swore I’d never return to. The bond I’ve spent years denying awakens and this time, he feels it too. His gaze lingers. His touch burns. His voice drops when he speaks my name. “You feel it, don’t you?” he whispers. I should run. I should hate him.But the mate bond doesn’t lie… and neither does the betrayal that stole my life.Because I was never the mistake.I was always his true Luna.

Before I knew he was my stepson, he was my one-night stand — the man whose touch I couldn’t forget, whose way of making love branded itself into my memory. I wanted him from the start. But he resisted. He’s someone I’m supposed to guard, yet when I’m with him, he makes me feel like I’m the younger one and he’s the one in control. When he walked away, I told myself I’d forgotten him — moved on, tucked myself into a safe marriage that promised stability. But our secret affair has lasted longer than it should. No one can know. Now, things are getting riskier. He wants me to leave my marriage — he’s certain we belong together. What do I do when everything I’ve worked for — my reputation, the school I’m trying to save from collapse — is on the line?

“Ahh…” A helpless sound escaped me when the stranger’s hand cupped one of my breasts, his mouth trailing down my neck to my ear. “Fuck… your tits feel amazing,” he groaned. “Tell me, has anyone else touched you like this before?” Why was he even asking that? Didn't he know questions like that only made my body feel even hotter—worse? “Has anyone else ever played with these?” he asked again, squeezing harder. His hand was already under my uniform—God, had he slipped it in without me even noticing? The heat of his palm against my skin made my knees weak. “N-No one… y-you’re the first,” I said before I could stop myself.

“I fall for her, June Bentley, my brother’s fiancée. Yeah, this is silly, and many of my friends may get startled if I declare the truth. They can see me as a third wheel in my brother’s engagement, but I don’t care about their opinions. Though, I really love her at the first place. The moment I meet her as my private teacher is the time when I start developing my feelings to her. There is no other people I really want to see. It is only her and forever will be her. Yet, unexpectedly, after getting engaged to my brother, unexpectedly, she often spends more time for me. Among those times, she suddenly confesses her feelings to me. Her admission certainly makes me happy, but I realize that our love might be impossible to happen, but we decide to go through it, through the thick and thin, whether it is happy or sad.” -Stacy Barfield-

He was my professor, the Alpha of the Silver Crest Pack. Feared by every wolf on campus. In class, he was a sucker for rules, but outside, he was the kind of savage who obeyed no one. Especially not the Moon Goddess. I ran to this University to escape and arranged marriage, find freedom and my true mate. I wasn't expecting him, and I definitely wasn't expecting to snap at the one man who could order my head served on a platter to him. Then I realized he was mine. Mine to own, my mate! But he was the same man who helped destroy my family and Pack. The same Alpha who had murdered my brother without a second thought. The rules said we couldn't touch. I wouldn't reject me, I couldn't resist gin and every time another man looked at me, his wolf edged closer to savage. Sleeping with him would ruin everything. So why did I want it so badly? He was my curse, my punishment, and my aching obsession.

On our seventh anniversary, an event planner called, already hyping up my wife, Talia. "Ms. Sweeney, we're putting a family photo of you four in the main hall. And some shots of your little princess. That okay? Also, can you confirm your son carrying his sister onstage?" I froze. There were only two people in our house—Talia and me. A family of four? Two kids? I called Talia, the hotel's general manager. She brushed it off. "Probably a client. Wrong number on a contract. I hand out cards all day." I stared at the balloons and flowers I'd set up in the private room—then swiped them all to the floor. Gone. I turned and called my sister, the Director of the Business Compliance Bureau. "Naomi, Talia's cheating. She's got two kids. Get me the best divorce lawyer. I want her out—and out of my hotel."

"This is wrong, Collen," I breathed out as Collen's s lips claimed mine. "Shhhh and let's think about the consequences later," he said in a husky voice before spreading my legs open and trailing his lips down to the juncture of my thighs before burying his face between my legs. Here's a rewritten version of the text, with a more engaging tone and language: When Allison transferred to the prestigious Ivy League college, she thought she'd left her small-town life behind. But fate had other plans. With the help of her best friend Hannah, she settled into her new life, only to discover that her one-night stand was none other than Hannah's boyfriend - her fated mate! Torn between loyalty and desire, Allison must navigate this forbidden attraction, all while keeping her secret from her friend. Will she confess her transgression, or will fate and passion prevail in this sizzling werewolf romance?