Woods Obat

Pada tahun keenam setelah diusir dari keluarga kaya karena dianggap sebagai putri palsu, aku bertahan hidup dengan menjual darahku. Baru saja aku menerima sedikit uang dan hendak menghubungi dokter untuk membeli obat, seorang pengawal menendang belakang lututku dengan keras. Saat jatuh berlutut, aku mendengar seorang wanita kaya berteriak tak terkendali. "Dasar anak nggak tahu terima kasih! Apa yang kamu lakukan di sini? Apa kamu mau coba celakai Sophia-ku lagi?" Sebuah tamparan keras mendarat di wajahku. Aku baru menyadari bahwa itu adalah ibuku yang sedang mengumpulkan sumber darah untuk putri kesayangannya, Sophia. Melihat ibuku yang putus asa, kakak laki-lakiku, Owen, segera memerintahkan para pengawal untuk mengusirku. Dia menatap uang di tanganku dan mencibir, "Sepertinya, beberapa tahun terakhir masih belum mengubah sifatmu. Demi kemewahan semu, kamu bahkan rela menjual darah untuk dapatkan beberapa ratus ribu." "Sophia akan lulus dan pergi ke luar negeri untuk melanjutkan studi dalam setengah bulan. Dia nggak butuh perhatian eksklusif keluarga lagi, sedangkan kamu juga nggak akan bisa menindasnya. Nanti, aku akan jelaskan alasannya kepada Ayah dan Ibu, lalu membawamu pulang. Kamu akan tetap menjadi tuan putri di rumah." "Pulang ... tuan putri?" gumamku. Akhirnya, aku hanya menggeleng dan tertawa terbahak-bahak. Aku mengidap penyakit ALS, penyakit saraf yang bisa menyebabkan tubuh lumpuh secara perlahan. Penyakit ALS-ku berkembang terlalu cepat dan aku bahkan tidak akan mampu bertahan sebulan lagi. Lagi pula, ketika dia menuduhku sebagai putri palsu demi Sophia yang hanyalah seorang anak dari keluarga miskin, aku sudah lama kehilangan rumah.

Musim dingin telah tiba lagi. Setiap musim dingin, suami dan putraku akan mengalami alergi terhadapku tanpa alasan yang jelas. Seluruh tubuh mereka akan dipenuhi ruam dan penyebab alerginya tidak diketahui sampai sekarang. Oleh karena itu, mereka menjaga jarak denganku dan pindah ke rumah lain. Bahkan ketika aku jatuh dan kepalaku berlumuran darah, mereka juga tidak kembali. Meskipun aku dirawat di rumah sakit setelah kecelakaan mobil, aku tetap harus menghadapinya sendirian. Kami menjadi keluarga yang paling asing karena aku bisa membunuh mereka. Aku menanggung dinginnya musim dingin sendirian dan menunggu dalam kesepian. Aku tidak berhenti berharap musim semi yang hangat akan membawa kembali keluargaku yang tercinta. Namun, aku tidak sengaja mendengar percakapan mereka. "Papa, kita cuma bisa ketemu Mama Nancy di musim dingin setiap tahun. Memangnya kita nggak bisa buat alergi ini berlangsung sedikit lebih lama lagi?" Mama Nancy? Teman masa kecil suamiku? Suamiku mengacak-acak rambut putra kami. "Mengonsumsi terlalu banyak obat alergi itu nggak baik. Mama Nancy juga akan khawatir. Papa akan bawa kamu kemari kalau ada waktu." Putraku pun bertepuk tangan. "Hore! Aku paling suka permen mangga di musim dingin! Dengan begitu, aku bisa bertemu Mama Nancy lagi!" Mangga adalah alergen mematikan yang selama ini berusaha kuhindarkan dari putraku! Setelah berdiri lama di tengah angin dingin, aku diam-diam pulang. Ketika musim semi kembali, aku menarik kembali semua perhatianku. "Makan saja apa pun yang kamu mau. Kalau kamu merasa aku menganiaya anak, silakan hubungi polisi. Aku nggak mau hak asuhmu."

Mula sa pinakatatagong mundo nagmumula ang pag-ibig sa gitna ng digmaan at labanan. Sa gitna ng lahat ng sakit at balakid, mananaig pa kaya ang pag-ibig na nakalaan para sa kanila kung ang buong katotohanan ay hindi dapat mangyari at susundin ng kanilang mga puso na sila ay nagkakaisa at mas piniling burahin ang markang nagbuklod sa kanilang dalawa? Binalot ng sumpa at paghihiganti ang pusong puno ng pagmamahal. Maibabalik pa ba ang pag-ibig kapag nasunog at nadurog na ng nakaraan dahil sa isang malagim na pangyayaring naghiwalay sa kanilang dalawa? _____ "I, Alpha Sortitus Breackorn, of the Breackorn 'Black' Pack, reject you, Clavem Whitestern of the Breackorn Pack, as my mate." "I accept your rejection." Under the white moon in the woods, I run in wolf form. The wolf inside me is whining and uttering All the grievances I have in my heart, I shout, even though the whole surrounding area is covered with light because of the white rays coming from the moon. "I hate everything that happens to me, but I'm not regretting loving him, but he is not destined to love me back. Dearest Luna Goddess, why are you making me suffer like this? Did I do something to trigger your hatred and put me into a curse and be the mistress of my own mate?!"

When nerdy but cute, Miranda Whitmore's parents decide to move to a place called Howling Cliffs, she is not happy. But there's nothing she despises more in this small town than Nigel Vanderwolf, the hot jock who happens to be the son of the man Miranda's family is staying with. The two bump heads continuously, with Nigel's crude sexual jokes and relentless mockery of her virgin status and Miranda's snappy rebuttals and ability to annoy him constantly. But one night after a dangerous game of Truth or Dare, Miranda becomes lost in the woods where she gets trapped in a cave because of a thunderstorm. Feeling guilty of his part in Miranda's disappearance, Nigel sets out to find her. He stumbles on the girl he finds the most annoying, sheltering in the Forbidden Cavern. The two ensue in a heated argument, disturbing the God that resides there. After Nigel takes Miranda home, the two decide to never speak to each other again, thus going their separate ways, only to wake the next morning to find themselves in each other's bodies. Now Miranda has the upper hand because she has finally learned Nigel's secret. Her neighbour and bully is a werewolf. What will Miranda do with this newfound information? Will she expose to the world that the supernatural is real? How will Nigel cope with this magical phenomenon? Will he be able to switch back in time for the great Alpha Trials? Follow Miranda and Nigel in this epic tale of enemies to lovers in the Werewolf Switch.

Aria Hale spent her entire life believing the Moon Goddess created someone just for her. Someone who would see her. Choose her. Love her. She didn’t expect her fated mate to be Alpha Blake Thorn—the golden boy of the pack… or that he would reject her in front of everyone on her eighteenth birthday. Humiliated, heartbroken, and stripped of her place in the pack, Aria runs into the Forbidden Woods, praying for the pain to stop. But instead of death, she finds something far more dangerous: The Dark King. Erevan is ancient, feared, and impossibly powerful. To the world he is a myth. To Aria, he is the first person who looks at her like she is worth the world. And when she collapses in his arms, he does the unthinkable— He claims her as his mate. In the Dark Realm, Aria begins to unlock abilities she never knew she had. Abilities that were never meant to exist in the mortal world. Abilities that could destroy everything she once called home. When she returns to her old pack, Alpha Blake realizes the awful truth: Rejecting her was the biggest mistake of his life. But it’s too late. Aria is no longer the girl who begged for love. She is the mate of a king. Chosen. Claimed. Unstoppable. And she will never kneel again. A rejected-mate romance filled with betrayal, power, jealousy, possessive love, and a heroine who rises from broken to legendary.

In the heart of Cedar Grove, shadows conceal more than secrets— they whisper truths. Dr. Isla Rivers never thought she'd return to her small hometown, let alone to the clinic her father built. But after his mysterious disappearance, Isla steps into his shoes, seeking solace among furry patients and the echoes of a life she left behind. The quiet town holds more than nostalgia, though. Strange sounds haunt her clinic, shadows stretch unnaturally, and whispers from her childhood dreams beckon her toward the unknown. When a journal marked with her father’s enigmatic crescent moon symbol appears, Isla is thrust into a world she never imagined—one where werewolves roam the woods, a prophecy threatens to unravel reality, and her own bloodline holds a secret more powerful than she’s ready to face. Guided by a cryptic stranger named Astra and an unwelcome connection to Luca Moreau, the brooding alpha of the local pack, Isla must confront the truth about her father’s disappearance, her heritage, and the prophecy that ties her fate to the Crescent Moon pack. But as passions ignite and dangers close in, Isla must decide who to trust and what sacrifices she’s willing to make—for love, for family, and for the truth that could reshape both the human and werewolf worlds forever. Welcome to Cedar Grove. The wolves are waiting.

After spending the night with the Greatest Alpha and losing her virginity to him, Celine didn't expect to be in an arranged mate bond with him. The worst was, he hated her and loved another woman... **** "I, Alpha Tyrion Macklin, in the presence of all Alpha council take Celine, as my fated mate. I vow to cherish her and..." He paused and looked at me with disgust. "I can't do this. I can't mate with a maid..." Celine is a low ranking wolf who was found in the woods by her now father when she was a baby. She was abused and lost hope for future yet always wanted to have a child of her own. To give it the world, love and home she never got. Alpha Tyrion Macklin is one of the most powerful alphas in the world, aspiring to become the Alpha King. He has a fiancée, the daughter of Great Alpha Jonathan, who gives him control over two packs. Their fates collide when the Alphas accuse Tyrion of mating with Celine during the annual meeting of alphas. Under the pressure of the Alpha Alliance, Tyrion marks Celine and takes her back to his pack. They sign a contract which states Celine will leave after she gets pregnant. Unknown about her true powers and the dangers lurking to use her special abilities, she turns a rogue and Alpha Tyrion goes crazy after her. Will he accept her as his true mate? And can she overcome his hatred and indifference?

My mate, Kane Blackwood, was the most feared Alpha in the Northlands. For three years, he treated me like something that belonged to him. He would drag me into his arms on the stone steps after moon rituals, pin me against the wall in Blackthorn Keep’s long corridors, and bite the mark on the back of my neck beside the patrol trails in the border woods, as if he needed everyone to remember exactly whose Luna I was. I used to think that was his way of loving me. Rough. Possessive. Lacking tenderness. But love, all the same. Until one night, I stopped outside the council hall and heard an elder say in a furious voice, “Those charcoal sketches on the black market were released by your people, weren’t they? Every one of them is of you and Elena in bed. She has become a joke across the pack. Do you even understand what you’ve done?” There was a brief silence. Then Kane said, coldly, “She is the Luna the council chose for me. She is not the woman I wanted.” I stood frozen outside the door. All those years, I thought his roughness meant he loved me too fiercely to be gentle. But it was never love. It was humiliation. Punishment for taking the place of the woman he actually wanted. I lowered my eyes to the moonstone bracelet on my wrist, the one he had clasped there the day our mating contract was sealed. If that was all I had ever been to him, then I would leave.

Rosemary couldn’t have expected what would happen the moment she walked into her father’s office that cold winter’s day. Standing beside her father was Justin Knight, a man known across the country for his cruelty and rage. And for Rose, a person her father promised she’d marry. Being used as her father’s pawn for greater power was a deal Rose couldn’t accept, so she did the only thing she could, she ran. Taking her chances and bolting from her guards her arranged husband ordered, Rose finds herself surrounded and trapped. Until one man appears. Taking the hand of a stranger, covered in tattoos with the brightest but most dangerous eyes she’d ever seen, Rose thought she was out of the woods, but she didn’t know what she’d just stepped into. Baxter was no hero; he was a predator, the most feared Mafia boss in the country. A man built on fear, blood and not an ounce of mercy, he had not one weakness, until Rose appeared. From that first moment, Baxter decides she was now his, and Baxter never releases the things he claims. Her father wants to sell her, her fiancé wants to own her, and the monster who saved her, wants to keep her forever. Can Rosemary escape the men who wish to control her… or has she already fallen into the hands of the one man who could fully destroy her? Read on to find out.

A dark and gloomy villa stood in the middle of the barren landscape, hidden from sight by a perched hedge. It was phenomenal and spectacular, but it makes it appear to have succumbed to a sullen and ominous atmosphere, both inside and out. A lanky hedge and gnarled shrubs give off the impression that the house has indeed been overlooked. The rainstorm seeping from the sewer pipes made the place appear miserable and dispirited. Needless to say, the house appeared razed to the ground and devoid of life. The house was made of rune stone that had been smeared darker in spots by downpours, sending it an insidious demeanor even during the day. The window frames were all padlocked and bricked up in steel frames and woods, as if what was inside would have been too grotesque to see, trying to give the impression that someone must have attempted to prevent something horrible from escaping. People have claimed that the residence was plagued by the witch who died there, but there has been no tangible evidence to substantiate their claims. It was even widely speculated that the villa was venomous and mowed down the leaves of trees that come into direct contact with its concrete pillars. People also construed a terrifying presumption that whoever tries to enter the house will never make it out alive because there is something inside that you would never dare to see with your very own eyes. Whatever was real or not, it was unmistakably foreshadowing, exponentially cold and savage at a hundredth of a thousand glances. A breathtaking doll sat competently on a rocking chair inside the house. Waiting complacently for someone brave and heroic enough to unravel the abominable and ghoulish mystery and paradox behind her enchanting, spine-chilling smile.