Why Did Noah Call Elle Shelly

My mom had a sudden heart attack, and the medical bills were piling up faster than I could breathe. I was desperate, so I turned to my rich boyfriend, hoping he could help, or at least offer some kind of solution. But instead of the support I expected, he unleashed a tirade that hit harder than anything I'd ever heard. "So this is why you're with me? Just for my money? You're no different from those other women throwing themselves at me. You're all the same—pathetic and shameless!" Before I could even react, he shoved me out the door. Later, when he finally understood the full story, he handed me a bank card, no questions asked. "Candice," he said quietly, his tone almost remorseful. "The password is your birthday." I didn't say a word. I just let the card drop onto the floor and walked away without looking back.

Trois ans après ma mort, mon mari s'est enfin souvenu de moi. Parce que sa précieuse amie d'enfance a rechuté d'une leucémie myéloïde, et qu'elle a de nouveau besoin d'une greffe de cellules souches hématopoïétiques. Il s'est rendu à l'adresse où j'habitais autrefois, dans l'intention de me faire signer un formulaire de don. Mais il a découvert que l'appartement était vide depuis bien longtemps. Alors il est allé se renseigner auprès des voisins. L'un d'eux lui a dit : « Vous parlez de Coco ? Elle est morte depuis un moment, la pauvre. On raconte qu'on l'a forcée à donner sa moelle alors qu'elle était déjà malade. Et à peine revenue chez elle, elle a rendu son dernier souffle. » Il a refusé d'y croire, convaincu que les voisins et moi étions de mèche pour lui jouer un sale tour. Agacé, il s'est tourné vers le voisin et a lancé d'un ton excédé : « Si jamais vous la croisez, dites-lui que si elle ne se montre pas dans les trois jours, je ne verserai plus un centime pour les frais médicaux de son sale gamin. » Le voisin, voyant qu'il n'y avait rien à tirer de lui, a secoué la tête et s'est éloigné en murmurant : « Le pauvre gosse... il est mort de faim depuis longtemps, lui aussi... »

Meet Ziva, a young Alpha's daughter who once had it all: a loving family, a respected position in her pack, and a promising future. However, on her eighteenth birthday, her world shattered. Her boyfriend betrayed her, and she found herself in an unexpected arranged marriage with her Alpha father's sworn enemy. To complicate matters further, her new husband has an identical twin, both claiming to be her true mate. Caught between her sense of duty and the fiery passion that threatens to devour her, will Ziva surrender to the irresistible allure that draws her closer to her dangerous enemies?

On our wedding day, my wife's first love, Hank Scott, threatened to slit his wrists. She ignored him and went through with the ceremony anyway, until news arrived that he was dead, his blood staining the ground. From that moment on, Shirley Lowell withdrew into a convent, becoming the cold, distant woman everyone knew. In the name of atonement, she forced me to copy the Bible a thousand times and kneel in endless prayer, grinding me down until I was crippled. Bound to a wheelchair, I asked her for a divorce. She refused, saying we owed Hank a debt and had to atone for it together. She used my family to threaten me, keeping me by her side and tormenting me for the rest of my life. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on our wedding day. This time, I chose to push her toward Hank. I would become the first love in her heart, the one who led her onto the path of devout faith.

Elle s’appelle Sofia Valente, prodige et star internationale du football féminin, adulée pour son talent et sa discipline. Lui, c’est Leonardo D’Amaro, héritier impitoyable d’une puissante famille mafieuse napolitaine, un homme dont le nom seul fait trembler les rues et plier ses ennemis. Leur première rencontre, dans un couloir désert lors d’un gala à Milan, aurait pu rester une simple provocation : lui qui l’embrasse de force, elle qui riposte par une gifle cinglante devant son arrogance. Mais ce geste d’insolence scelle leur destin. Humilié et fou de rage, Leonardo décide de la faire enlever. 'C'est une confrontation sans échappatoire. Elle, prisonnière malgré sa gloire et sa lumière médiatique, devient malgré elle le trophée qu’il ne veut plus lâcher. Lui, habitué à ce qu’on se plie à sa volonté, découvre une femme qui ne cède pas, qui lutte, qui le défie et dont la résistance attise un désir encore plus dangereux. Entre affrontements psychologiques, séduction forcée et spirale de violence, leur histoire se transforme en un champ de bataille où les règles tombent une à une. Chaque échange est une guerre de pouvoir, chaque regard un défi, chaque contact une étincelle qui peut embraser ou détruire. Dans un monde où l’amour ressemble à une cage dorée et où la passion frôle la cruauté, Sofia et Leonardo s’affrontent jusqu’au point de non-retour. Leur destin ne sera pas écrit par le hasard, mais par le feu qu’ils allument l’un chez l’autre , un feu prêt à consumer leurs deux univers.

Enfermée dans une vie bien rangée, Sanaa, directrice financière au cœur blindé, ne s’attendait pas à ce que trois jours à Rome bouleversent son monde. Dans un hôtel de luxe, elle croise Raphaël, un intervenant mystérieux au regard qui déshabille, au silence chargé de promesses. Une nuit, sans un mot. Juste des corps qui se cherchent, se défient, se dévorent. Il la fait vibrer, exploser, exister. Puis disparaît au matin, ne laissant qu’un mot sur l’oreiller… et un feu nouveau dans ses veines. Ce qu’elle croyait perdu depuis longtemps renaît dans l’abandon le plus brut : le goût du risque… et du désir. La première de plusieurs histoires érotiques où l'envie se mélange à l'obsession puis devient un volcan de passion .

Small town girl Rayne Summers just wants to make enough money working her parttime job at the local diner to pay her way through her last semester of college. But everything changes when her best friend Emma takes her on a birthday getaway for her twenty first birthday to her old hometown of Ridgewood. As Rayne and Emma enjoy a night out at the local bar called Rider’s, the one person that has plagued her dreams for years walks into the bar and their eyes meet for the first time in six years. Everything that happens that night will change Rayne’s life forever and she will realize the ones you trust the most are the ones that will betray you.

Rune Navarre, an Aberrant by the standards of their realm, was hired by Rosworth Pharmaceuticals to investigate and find out who were the people behind the taking of D-15, an unfinished drug that was supposed to stabilize an Omega's Heats. Things get emotionally complicated for her when she met Sven Rosworth, the attractive owner and CEO, who had his own fair share of secrets. Keeping her growing feelings in check as it was against their protocols and as Sven would never think of her more than a friend; together they navigate the whole case along with surviving the threats on his life, but all hell broke loose when one day, she woke up being mated and bonded to him. As they traverse their new relationship and nearing the end of the chase, Rune unexpectedly came face to face with someone who could shatter her already fragile relationship with Sven. When the truth comes to light, could Rune be able to right the wrongs? And was the bond she and Sven shared not enough for them to stay together?

It was the day of our marriage. We were supposed to meet up at the City Hall, but my fiancee stood me up. I waited for her the whole day, and the only answer I got was a picture from her assistant. My girlfriend sat astride on his lap, and her arms were wrapped around his neck while they were locked in a deep kiss. "Sorry, Mr. Terraton. Sophie insisted on comforting me. You don't mind, do you?" I demanded answers from my girlfriend, but that only made her impatient. "He donated his blood to me. Yeah, I was with him, but so what? Man up, will you?" That killed any love I had for her, and I called my soon-to-be ex-girlfriend's sister. "Hey, Sylvie. Yeah, about your proposal. So will you marry me?"

The Empire rules on the wings of dragons. Riders are hand-selected for training from childhood, and Anzi is one of the rare few who wait to hatch theirs this year. Until she discovers the terrible truth that the dragon riders are not partners with their dragons: they're slavers. The dragons are bred in captivity and enslaved from within the egg, and they are nothing but mindless shadows of what their once-noble species used to be. After two hundred years, the surviving dragons in the wild are coming back to rescue their brethren. How they survived the Purge, no one knows, but they are angry and they are coming, in fire and in storm. And as she struggles to come to terms with the realization that the nation she loves so much that she would give her life for it may be nothing more than propaganda and illusion, she discovers something else: The dragons who survived the Purge are shifters, able to hide in human form. And Anzi has met one of them already. Her mate.