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A few hours before her wedding, Elowen ditches her cheating fiancé and the entire Guerra family, then ends up in a club for a one-time stripper gig where she meets Dante. Enthralled by her, Dante presents her with a contract. Elowen thinks she can use this to her advantage - steal his money and skip town, where the Guerra family won’t find her. So, she signs the contract and gives up her virginity to him. Unbeknownst to her, Dante isn’t just some random rich guy. He’s her ex-fiancé’s uncle and the most powerful man in the city. He’s used to getting what he wants, and he wants Elowen, who had just signed a contract with him. What happens when she finds out his true identity and the fact she can never escape the Guerra Mafia?

Within twenty-four hours, Hellena Crawley must repay her father's staggering debt, or her plus-size body will be used as collateral to satisfy ruthless loan sharks. Hoping to receive help from her boyfriend, she is instead rewarded with a cruel betrayal in bed. Broken and cornered by the threat of death, Hellena desperately lowers her pride and turns to Kael Willian—her cold-blooded CEO and notorious boss, known for his ruthless nature. However, the tyrant does not offer money for free. Kael presents her with an extreme proposition: a one-year contract marriage. For the sake of his critically ill mother, Kael needs an obedient wife who will not involve emotions. Living under the same roof, the professional boundaries between them gradually begin to dissolve. Will Hellena be able to resist her boss's irresistible charm, or will she be the one trapped by the CEO's fear of love?

To the world, Jack Miller is a powerless, live-in son-in-law, enduring the scorn of his in-laws and the coldness of his brilliant CEO wife, Katherine. He is a joke in a world of predators. But when a Wall Street tycoon publicly humiliates him and moves to claim Katherine and her company, a dormant, primal power awakens within him. The Alpha Predation System activates, forging his rage into a weapon with a single mission: In 72 hours, make the predator kneel. From the shadows, he becomes "Alpha Wolf," a phantom investor who dismantles financial empires from a beat-up laptop. As titans fall, Katherine watches in stunned awe, drawn to the fearsome protector she never knew. Jack’s roar, however, has attracted ancient, shadowy forces, turning his personal revenge into a war. He must now confront the conspiracy behind his parents' death and claim his throne. He was their joke. Now, he will be their nightmare.

While preparing for the SATs at the library, my brother is accidentally shot and injured, causing him to bleed profusely. I pass by this scene but turn a blind eye and quicken my pace to leave. This is because in my previous life, when I saw him, I rushed him to the hospital in a panic. He had intracranial hemorrhaging, and he urgently needed surgery. I quickly called my mom, the top neurosurgeon in the city, begging her to come to the hospital as soon as possible. However, she thought I was jealous that she had taken my adopted sister to the beach instead of spending time with me. She also believed I had fabricated the story about my brother's injury, and thus refused to return. By the time my dad and the rest of the family hurried to the hospital, it was too late for rescue efforts—my brother had passed away. The whole family blamed me for his death. They were convinced that I had deliberately misled my mom and delayed his critical treatment. When my mom returned from out of town, she lost her composure and pushed me down the stairs, watching coldly as I bled to death. After opening my eyes again, I had returned to the day my brother was shot at the library.

"You can't just touch me however you please." I spat angrily as he runs his fingers along the curves of my breast. The words leaving my mouth not corresponding with the wetness in my underwear. "Is that so? Do you want to know why I can do whatever I want with you?" He asks but I don't answer. "Because I own you." Aurelia's life revolved around working long hours at multiple jobs to take care of bills but mostly to pay off her father's gambling debt. She comes home to find that she has been sold off to a mob boss by her father to save himself. Read more to find out what happens on Aurelia's journey as the mob boss' possession. Rated 18+ contains: Violence Sexual Content Vulgar Language.

She stood before the mirror, her hands trembling as she ran a brush through her hair. Her eyes were wide and fearful, a far cry from the confident and self-assured woman she had been just a few hours before. This was no ordinary betrothal – she was being forced into marriage with a man of immense wealth and power, a man she knew nothing about. She felt like a lamb being led to the slaughter. Olivia Archer woke up one morning to discover that she had been betrothed to a ruthless billionaire. She felt a mix of emotions: shock, fear, and confusion. She knew that saying no to the betrothal would have dire consequences, but saying yes seemed even more dangerous. What was she to do? The options before her seemed impossible, and yet she had to make a choice. Which path would she take?

In order to protect my father, I was tortured for ten hours, but my father was busy celebrating his adopted daughter’s eighteenth birthday. With my dying breath, I called my father and said, “Dad, it’s my birthday today. Could you wish me a happy birthday?” “You crazy monster! You got your mother killed in order to celebrate your birthday! How could you still ask me to celebrate your birthday? You should just die!” With that said, he hung up. The next day, my corpse was placed in different flower pots and put in front of a police station. My father was in charge of inspecting my corpse, and he could immediately tell that the murderer did this for revenge. What they did to me was cruel and made a mockery of the police’s authority. But he did not manage to tell that the deceased was the daughter he hated.

My mate cheated on me two days before our mating ceremony… with my worst enemy. And I was still expected to marry him. Because family honour comes first. —·—·—·—·—·—·— Two hours before Iris's mating ceremony, a video lands in her hands, and destroys everything she thought she knew about her fated mate. Her father doesn’t care. The alliance is too important. The ceremony will go on. Iris is supposed to smile. Obey. Become Luna. She doesn't, she runs instead. Right into the hands of Aurelian Virex, the Lycan billionaire who owns the empire her mate serves. A man far more dangerous than the one she left behind. Now Iris has a choice: go back and live a life decided for her… Or step into a world she doesn’t understand, and lose herself to a man she was never meant to meet.

Before Mom's surgery, Mason—yeah, the Mason Leonhart from one of Brighton's big-name families—suddenly "had" to go on a business trip and couldn't be at the hospital. A few hours later, Judy Yeager blasted a video on social. There was Mason, Mr. Born-With-A-Silver-Spoon, recycling bottles with her. Caption: [If we work hard together, no hardship can scare us.] I couldn't resist. [Future Leonhart heir, worth ten billion, still helping his girl recycle bottles to trade in for cash—heartwarming.] It vanished in seconds. My phone lit up. Mason's voice? Ice cold. "Shiloh Harrington, what was that? Call Judy. Tell her you were joking." I laughed. "Keep playing your little poor-boy cosplay without me." Hung up. Three days till the divorce cooling-off ended. Then Mason could be the broke man he was pretending to be.

Her husband gave her a divorce paper less than twenty-four hours after their wedding. D__Divorce? What?” Her marriage crumbles in 24 hours. JOPHIEL tosses a divorce paper in Sloane’s face, whispering, “I never loved you—just needed your fortune.” Betrayed by her husband, stepsister, step‑mom, and dad, Sloane signs away everything, walks out, and hooks up with a stranger. Six years later she storms back into New York with Quadruplets—Two spitting images of JOPHIEL , two of the mystery men she had a one night stand with. Both men now want her back… and the babies. Will Sloane ever forgive? Who really fathered the quads? Read this Scandalous story with me – discover who the quads belong to and whether love can survive betrayal. Content Warning. Strictly 18+. It contains DarkRomance, such as lust, obsession. You’ll love it