Introduction
"안 돼!" 션위에가 괴상한 소리를 내질렀다. "그런 비정상적인 짓을 하라고? 말도 안 돼. 단, 삼만 오천 위안이라면 모를까!"
Share the book to
About Author
Aurelia Whitethorne
Chapter 1
심악은 두 종류의 남자를 특히 경멸했다. 하나는 돈이 있어도 쓰지 않고 모아만 두는 남자, 다른 하나는 여자를 때리는 남자였다.
첫 번째 유형을 만나면, 그는 그 사람을 바보라고 비웃었다.
두 번째 유형을 만나면, 그의 손이 근질거렸다.
지금, 그의 손이 근질거리기 시작했다.
앞쪽 가로등 아래에서 한 남자가 여자를 때리고 있었다. "이 망할 년, 네가 뭔데? 그렇게 많은 사람들 앞에서 내 체면을 구기게 해!"
남자의 주먹질과 발길질에 여자는 바닥에 웅크린 채 울기만 할 뿐, 전혀 저항하지 않았다.
남자가 신나게 발길질을 하고 있을 때, 갑자기 뒤에서 누군가 소리쳤다. "야, 그만해!"
그 호통 소리에 남자는 즉시 뒤돌아보았고, 누군지도 제대로 보지 못한 채 욕설을 내뱉었다. "씨발, 어디 바지 지퍼 안 잠그고 나온 놈이야? 꺼져."
여자를 때리는 것도 못마땅한데, 이제는 심악을 누구네 바지 속에서 나왔다고 욕하다니, 이게 죽고 싶은 것과 무슨 차이가 있을까?
물론, 심악은 법을 준수하는 선량한 시민이었기에 이런 작은 일로 사람을 죽이지는 않을 것이다. 다만 그의 팔을 붙잡아 옆으로 내던질 뿐이었다.
쿵 하는 둔탁한 소리와 함께 남자는 바닥에 세게 내동댕이쳐졌다.
그가 일어나기도 전에 심악은 달려가 발을 들어 사정없이 걷어찼다.
겉보기에 덩치가 크고 강해 보이는 남자였지만, 심악의 발길질 앞에서는 전혀 대항할 힘이 없었다. 곧 그는 비명을 지르며 애원했다. "그만, 그만 때려요. 살려주세요, 제발 살려주세요."
"앞으로 다시 여자를 때리면, 내가 너를 볼 때마다 한 번씩 때릴 거야."
충분하다고 느낀 심악은 몸을 숙여 그의 셔츠 깃을 움켜쥐고 바닥에서 끌어올렸다. "꺼져."
"네, 네, 당장 사라질게요, 당장요."
남자는 기어가듯 차에 올라타 순식간에 사라졌다.
차의 후미등이 멀리서 사라진 후에야 심악은 이상한 점을 깨달았다.
이 여자는 어떻게 해야 하지?
뒷머리를 긁적이며 심악은 쪼그려 앉아 걱정스럽게 물었다. "괜찮으세요?"
아직도 바닥에 웅크리고 있던 여자는 그를 쳐다보지도 못하고, 몸을 더 심하게 떨며 울기만 했다.
"겁내지 마세요, 저는 나쁜 사람이 아니에요."
심악이 그녀를 안심시키며 다시 물었다. "방금 그 남자는 당신과 무슨 관계인가요?"
아마도 '나쁜 사람이 아니다'라는 말이 효과가 있었는지, 여자는 울음을 멈추고 살짝 고개를 들어 떨리는 목소리로 말했다. "그, 그 사람은 제 남편이에요."
아, 가정폭력이었구나.
심악은 약간 울적해졌다.
남의 가정사에 끼어드는 것은 정말 힘만 들고 고마움도 못 받는 바보 같은 행동이었다.
하지만 이미 개입한 이상, 심악은 끝까지 책임지는 것 외에 다른 방법이 없었다. "일어나세요, 집에 데려다 드릴게요. 걱정 마세요, 남편분께 생생한 사상교육을 시켜드릴게요. 앞으로는 절대 당신을 때리지 못하게 할 거예요."
"아니요, 저는 돌아가지 않을 거예요. 죽어도 그 집에는 다시 돌아가지 않을 거예요."
여자는 계속 고개를 저으며 양손으로 얼굴을 가리고 더 크게 울기 시작했다.
"돌아가지 않으시겠다고요? 그럼 밖에서 밤을 새실 건가요?"
심악은 약간 당황했다가 무언가 생각났다는 듯이 말했다. "아, 맞다. 돈 있으세요?"
여자의 울음소리가 즉시 멈췄다.
그녀가 오해했다는 것을 알고, 심악은 서둘러 설명했다. "돈이 있는지 물어본 건 호텔에 묵으시라고 하려던 거예요."
하지만 여자는 휴대폰과 지갑이 모두 차 안에 있어서 지금은 무일푼이라고 했다.
"아이고, 저도 무일푼이에요."
거짓말하면 벼락 맞는다는 심악은 정말 난처해졌다. "그럼, 어떻게 하고 싶으세요?"
여자는 대답하지 않고 다시 울기 시작했다.
울음소리에 심악은 매우 짜증이 났다.
가고 싶은 마음은 있었지만, 그녀의 안전이 걱정되었다.
이미 깊은 밤이었고, 그녀가 정말로 극단적인 선택을 하거나 나쁜 사람을 만나게 된다면, 그것은 심악의 죄가 될 것이다.
미간을 찌푸리며 심악은 조심스럽게 제안했다. "이렇게 하면 어떨까요? 일단 오늘 밤만 제 집에서 지내시는 건요?"
여자가 대답하기도 전에 그는 다시 설명했다. "걱정 마세요, 저는 나쁜 사람이 아니에요. 절대로 나쁜 마음을 품지 않을 거예요."
Latest Chapters
#1182 1182 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:09#1181 1181 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:37#1180 1180 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:36#1179 1179 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:36#1178 1178 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:36#1177 1177 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:37#1176 1176 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:09#1175 1175 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:37#1174 1174 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:37#1173 1173 장
Last Updated: 04/18/2025 12:09
Comments
You Might Like 😍
Falling for my boyfriend's Navy brother
"What is wrong with me?
Why does being near him make my skin feel too tight, like I’m wearing a sweater two sizes too small?
It’s just newness, I tell myself firmly.
He’s my boyfirend’s brother.
This is Tyler’s family.
I’m not going to let one cold stare undo that.
**
As a ballet dancer, My life looks perfect—scholarship, starring role, sweet boyfriend Tyler. Until Tyler shows his true colors and his older brother, Asher, comes home.
Asher is a Navy veteran with battle scars and zero patience. He calls me "princess" like it's an insult. I can't stand him.
When My ankle injury forces her to recover at the family lake house, I‘m stuck with both brothers. What starts as mutual hatred slowly turns into something forbidden.
I'm falling for my boyfriend's brother.
**
I hate girls like her.
Entitled.
Delicate.
And still—
Still.
The image of her standing in the doorway, clutching her cardigan tighter around her narrow shoulders, trying to smile through the awkwardness, won’t leave me.
Neither does the memory of Tyler. Leaving her here without a second thought.
I shouldn’t care.
I don’t care.
It’s not my problem if Tyler’s an idiot.
It’s not my business if some spoiled little princess has to walk home in the dark.
I’m not here to rescue anyone.
Especially not her.
Especially not someone like her.
She’s not my problem.
And I’ll make damn sure she never becomes one.
But when my eyes fell on her lips, I wanted her to be mine.
Sold! To the Grizzly Don
Selling her virginity online is a surefire way to make sure The Grizzly cancels the agreement and when she lets her father know she's sold it to the highest bidder and never got his real name, the contract is ended but so is her association with her own family.
Six years later she is no longer the treasured principessa of the Mariani family, but the single-mother to a five-year old boy who bears an uncanny resemblance to the man to whom she sold her innocence.
Torquato Lozano has searched for the woman who left him high and dry after an incredible night of passion nearly six years ago. When he stumbles across her in a newly purchased company working as an IT tech, he's stunned to find out she's the woman his family arranged him to marry so many years before. A perusal of her file tells him she didn't leave their rendezvous all those nights ago empty handed. Her little boy is the spitting image of him, right down to his massive size.
When Alcee's family realize they are losing out on a lucrative financial alliance they should have been part of, it starts a war. With enemies appearing at every corner, Alcee and Torquato will need to let the past go and work together to keep their son alive. Their passion will reignite as they strive to keep their family safe and forge a new power to take over the New York criminal underworld.
Fake Dating My Ex's Favourite Hockey Player
Zane and I were together for ten years. When he had no one, I stayed by his side, supporting his hockey career while believing at the end of all our struggles, I'll be his wife and the only one at his side.But after six years of dating, and four years of being his fiancée, not only did he leave me, but seven months later I receive an invitation... to his wedding!If that isn't bad enough, the month long wedding cruise is for couples only and requires a plus one. If Zane thinks breaking my heart left me too miserable to move on, he thought wrong!Not only did it make me stronger.. it made me strong enough to move on with his favourite bad boy hockey player, Liam Calloway.
To protect what’s mine
Fangs, Fate & Other Bad Decisions
After finding out her boyfriend cheated, the last thing she expected was to stumble across a wounded man in an alley. And definitely not one with fangs. But thanks to a mix of cocktails, shame, and her questionable life choices, she takes him home. Turns out, he’s not just any vampire—he’s a king. And according to him, she’s his fated mate.
Now, she’s stuck with an overprotective, brooding bloodsucker who keeps rescuing her, a growing list of enemies who want her dead, and an undeniable attraction that’s making it very hard to remember why falling for a vampire is a terrible idea.
Because if she’s not careful, she won’t just lose her heart—she’ll lose her humanity.
My Marked Luna
"Yes,"
He exhales, raises his hand, and brings it down to slap my naked as again... harder than before. I gasp at the impact. It hurts, but it is so hot, and sexy.
"Will you do it again?"
"No,"
"No, what?"
"No, Sir,"
"Best girl," he brings his lips to kiss my behind while he caresses it softly.
"Now, I'm going to fck you," He sits me on his lap in a straddling position. We lock gazes. His long fingers find their way to my entrance and insert them.
"You're soaking for me, baby," he is pleased. He moves his fingers in and out, making me moan in pleasure.
"Hmm," But suddenly, they are gone. I cry as he leaves my body aching for him. He switches our position within a second, so I'm under him. My breath is shallow, and my senses are incoherent as I anticipate his hardness in me. The feeling is fantastic.
"Please," I beg. I want him. I need it so badly.
"So, how would you like to come, baby?" he whispers.
Oh, goddess!
Apphia's life is harsh, from being mistreated by her pack members to her mate rejecting her brutally. She is on her own. Battered on a harsh night, she meets her second chance mate, the powerful, dangerous Lycan Alpha, and boy, is she in for the ride of her life. However, everything gets complicated as she discovers she is no ordinary wolf. Tormented by the threat to her life, Apphia has no choice but to face her fears. Will Apphia be able to defeat the iniquity after her life and finally be happy with her mate? Follow for more.
Warning: Mature Content
Off Limits, Brother's Best Friend
“You are going to take every inch of me.” He whispered as he thrusted up.
“Fuck, you feel so fucking good. Is this what you wanted, my dick inside you?” He asked, knowing I have benticing him since the beginning.
“Y..yes,” I breathed.
Brianna Fletcher had been running from dangerous men all her life but when she got an opportunity to stay with his elder brother after graduation, there she met the most dangerous of them all. Her brother's best friend, a mafia Don. He radiated danger but she couldn't stay away.
He knows his best friend's little sister is off limits and yet, he couldn't stop thinking of her.
Will they be able to break all rules and find closure in each other's arms?
The Prison Project
Can love tame the untouchable? Or will it only fuel the fire and cause chaos amongst the inmates?
Fresh out of high school and suffocating in her dead-end hometown, Margot longs for her escape. Her reckless best friend, Cara, thinks she's found the perfect way out for them both - The Prisoner Project - a controversial program offering a life-changing sum of money in exchange for time spent with maximum-security inmates.
Without hesitation, Cara rushes to sign them up.
Their reward? A one-way ticket into the depths of a prison ruled by gang leaders, mob bosses, and men the guards wouldn't even dare to cross...
At the centre of it all, meets Coban Santorelli - a man colder than ice, darker than midnight, and as deadly as the fire that fuels his inner rage. He knows that the project may very well be his only ticket to freedom - his only ticket to revenge on the one who managed to lock him up and so he must prove that he can learn to love…
Will Margot be the lucky one chosen to help reform him?
Will Coban be capable of bringing something to the table other than just sex?
What starts off as denial may very well grow in to obsession which could then fester in to becoming true love…
A temperamental romance novel.
Goddess Of The Underworld.
When the veil between the Divine, the Living, and the Dead begins to crack, Envy is thrust beneath with a job she can’t drop: keep the worlds from bleeding together, shepherd the lost, and make ordinary into armor, breakfasts, bedtime, battle plans. Peace lasts exactly one lullaby. This is the story of a border pup who became a goddess by choosing her family; of four imperfect alphas learning how to stay; of cake, iron, and daylight negotiations. Steamy, fierce, and full of heart, Goddess of the Underworld is a why-choose, found-family paranormal romance where love writes the rules and keeps three realms from falling apart.
Surrendering to Destiny
Graham MacTavish wasn't prepared to find his mate in the small town of Sterling that borders the Blackmoore Packlands. He certainly didn't expect her to be a rogue, half-breed who smelled of Alpha blood. With her multi-colored eyes, there was no stopping him from falling hard the moment their mate bond snapped into place. He would do anything to claim her, protect her and cherish her no matter the cost.
From vengeful ex-lovers, pack politics, species prejudice, hidden plots, magic, kidnapping, poisoning, rogue attacks, and a mountain of secrets including Catherine's true parentage there is no shortage of things trying to tear the two apart.
Despite the hardships, a burning desire and willingness to trust will help forge a strong bond between the two... but no bond is unbreakable. When the secrets kept close to heart are slowly revealed, will the two be able to weather the storm? Or will the gift bestowed upon Catherine by the moon goddess be too insurmountable to overcome?
Crowned by Fate
“She’d just be a Breeder, you would be the Luna. Once she’s pregnant, I wouldn’t touch her again.” my mate Leon’s jaw tightened.
I laughed, a bitter, broken sound.
“You’re unbelievable. I’d rather accept your rejection than live like that.”
As a girl without a wolf, I left my mate and my pack behind.
Among humans, I survived by becoming a master of the temporary: drifting job to job… until I became the best bartender in a dusty Texas town.
That’s where Alpha Adrian found me.
No one could resist the charming Adrian, and I joined his mysterious pack hidden deep in the desert.
The Alpha King Tournament, held once every four years, had begun. Over fifty packs from across North America were competing.
The werewolf world was on the verge of a revolution. That’s when I saw Leon again...
Torn between two Alphas, I had no idea that what awaited us wasn’t just a competition—but a series of brutal, unforgiving trials.
Author Note:New book out now! The River Knows Her Name
Mystery, secrets, suspense—your next page-turner is here.
The War God Alpha's Arranged Bride
Yet Alexander made his decision clear to the world: “Evelyn is the only woman I will ever marry.”
About Author
Aurelia Whitethorne
Download AnyStories App to discover more Fantasy Stories.
