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Walking into the mansion, my heart raced with a mixture of anticipation and anxiety. I hoped to see Henry, to catch him by surprise, but what I saw left me completely taken aback.
Henry's laughter dwindled as he looked up, meeting my gaze. "Sophia?" His voice was a mixture of surprise and confusion.
My heart raced, my cheeks flushing. This was definitely not how I had envisioned our reunion. I stammered, "I... I didn't expect to see you like this."
He stood up, disentangling himself from the wo...

Shree Jaisingh is a successful system software developer in a multinational firm. She has kept herself too busy to seek out a life partner for herself thereby throwing the burden upon her parent's already sagged shoulders. It's a tough job for the matchmakers to spot her best match. And, when they do, with her consent and approval, it only makes her realize that committing to a lifelong monogamy is exceptionally difficult with a man who keeps more secrets than he bothers to tell. In this new pha...

“Don't talk to strangers at restaurants or bars.”
“There we are now friends and not strangers.”
He smelled so good in this close proximity. I had dreamed about him since that first time on my 21st birthday. Seeing him every year would make that dream appear again and again. Each time more passionate than the last. It was almost humiliating to think of all the dirty scenarios that I played in my head with him while I dreamed, causing me to wake up with soaking panties. The thought made me smile ...

There has never been a female Alpha until Amani Constantine. She was once the future Alpha of the Bloodmoon pack—a pack that was completely annihilated under the order of the Alpha King. In one night, Amani lost her parents and entire pack, spared only for being the fated mate of Prince Malakai, the son of the Alpha King and heir to the throne. She despises the Alpha King and harbors equal animosity towards Malakai, who is determined to mold Amani into the most obedient mate. However, submission...

It has been years since my mother Kaya had been given the orders to reform the packs in the south. Instructions by the goddess herself. She had of course done it. She had blended the north into the south making our pack, Shadow Pack the strongest on the continent, if not the world. As well as helping reform other packs. Everyone, or so I thought was reaping the blessings of it.
My father, alpha Cade followed my mother's desire for change and had announced that I would be the first female Alpha....

Like what you see? She blushed, knowing her thoughts were her own.
Why yes, I do.His smooth answer echoed in her alcohol clouded thoughts.
She has only locked eyes with that hot stranger in the club for a few seconds, and next thing she knows is that she will be claimed by him in five days! Naughty little vixen Myra meets dominate Alpha King Sloan, and the game of temptation is ready to play.
. . .
(This story contains adult themes, strong language and descriptive sexual content that isn't ...

The sweat shone in the dim light on Vincent’s back while his muscular body forced Lucy’s slender figure under him.
Lucy reached her climax twice already. Vincent felt exhausted, but he wanted to prove that he was worth being in her bed.
Their moans were even louder, just like the sound of their bodies met with each thrust when finally he saw her eyes rolling back and her body tensed under him.
He was just about to climax when Lucy started frowning as a familiar scent hit her nose. Her eyes wi...

I had never felt this way about anyone before her. From the way that she held me as we went upstairs to the way that she screamed my name when I entered her, there wasn’t a single moment lost in my mind. Her scent, her taste, her forms, every single little thing about her made me feel like she had been tailor-made for me. When she smiled at me, my heart sang. When she kissed me, my soul set on fire and when she moaned my name, my body stood at attention.
Nothing else and no one else could compa...

After Brandon finds out about his wife's adultery with his father, he feels miserable and pathetic. He decided to divorce her and separate ways but on his way back home, he had a terrible accident that led to a fatal brain damage
On the day of the accident, he anxiously called for help, and as if the gods heard his plea, Dr. Sasha Collins who already had a strenuous day at work stumbled upon the accident and she decided to save him before he took his last breath, she brought him home and di...

"You love me?"
"I do."
"But what about finding your mate?"
"My first mate died. My second rejected me. There's no fated mate out there for me—and I'm glad. Because I only want you."
Emma has known nothing but heartbreak. Her first mate died before they ever met. Her second rejected her without hesitation. And every time she's tried to love again, it's ended the same way—left behind, forgotten, alone.
After years of being used, broken, and finally abused by her ex-boyfriend Jay, Emma no longer be...

Book 2 in the Blue Lake series.
Book 1 ~ My Omega Slave
This book carries on from my 'My Omega slave' if you haven't read ‘My Omega slave’ yet I recommend you do before reading ‘An Omegas Hope’
After Emma's first mate died before she even got the chance to meet him she was blessed with a second chance mate only for him to reject her. Relationships with other werewolves have always led to them finding their mates and Emma being left heartbroken and alone.
The moment she met Alex she...

"Tell me, my sweet Mila, do you want me to stop?"
"No!" I gasp.
"Good, because no matter what, no matter who walks in, I won't," He promised.
Killian Knight was many things, dangerous, a certified killer, devastatingly handsome, my father's business partner and married. He was not just off limits, he was forbidden, he was a sin and I was tempted enough to risk the hell fire. He was everything that could ruin me and my body, my mind and my soul; everything was ready for it.
Mila And...

"There she is, get her!!! don't let her leave" soldiers could be seen chasing a woman who was wounded badly and petrified. This woman seem to be protecting something but what?
"At last we caught her" the men yelled encircling her and beating the woman to death as she bid a being who hide beside a tree close to the road.
An Alpha's Kiss tells the story of how a dieing alpha's life falls into the hands of a human Julie, in an attempt to flee from his enemies.
A sudden kiss brings their souls to...

Diya is a great, bold, and adventurous journalist. She is known for bringing out the darkest secrets of the high profile people. But, none knows about the darkest secret of her life.
Shourya is a sincere, emotionless, brave, and honest cop. He is a terror in the hearts of the criminals. His duty is everything to him, and love, relationships, and family are trash to him.
Unexpectedly, Diya and Shourya were trapped in a marriage by the Central Home Minister, an enemy to both of them. Shourya doesn...

An unforeseen crash of an airplane initially caused by a wolflike assassin led to the deaths of many innocent lives including the target whose daughter miraculously survived the accident and was rescued by a trained warrior from an ancient cult of skilled fighters who have kept themselves hidden for many centuries away from the civilization.
As an orphan, she wasn't aware of her past until a fateful encounter with ferocious beasts of the Sao clan whom she is trained as an acolyte to hate brough...

In a world where war is eternal, can Elijah ever hope to escape her fate?
The fiendish war had raged on since long before Elika was born, neither side showing compassion. The battles raged on through the centuries untamed and savage, no side allowing quarter. The deaths were heinous and unprincipled; those who died would not rest silently. Their sinful battle would continue onward, the souls forever locked in limbo where they would endure the tortures of death lingering on their monstrous souls...

"First of all, I have a boyfriend, and I've never been with anyone else while I was with him, and secondly, you have a girlfriend, and you're used to cheating on her with any girl, and I don't want to be one of them," I say and tries to move away, but he holds me between his body and the table.
"And who says you're one of them?" he nibbles my lip, making me gasp "You're better, you're unique." he says and with that, I give myself into his arms, allowing him to kiss me like I've never been kisse...

Sad night, sad girl, something crazy she did when she drank up, Entering the president's room unexpectedly, it's crush. The story between him and her is just beginning…………

"Are you for real? I couldn't get my eyes off your lips.
Come over. Your services are needed now".
She heard him and knew exactly what to do..
The only son of a multi billionaire decides to escape the family's wealthy lifestyle and go face life as an ordinary worker in another rich family. There, he is introduced to a vast style of romance and taboo relationships.
Back to his house and life, his step sister has her own plans which reveals...

I just had sex with my father's best friend.
I gasped against his mouth as I felt a finger sliding inside me again.
"So wet..." he says taking his finger out of me and sucking it without breaking our eye contact.
That is the vision of paradise, for sure.
So sexy.
"Fuck," he murmurs as he strokes me hard.
With one hand he turns me onto my back and continues to penetrate me while stimulating my clitoris.
He knows very well what to do.
One slap. Two. Three. Several sequences of slaps were l...

Anthony was the only guy I've ever wanted but couldn't. He was my brother's best friend. Besides, he always saw me as an annoying brat.
I felt him behind me. I saw him standing there, just as I remembered him.
"What's your name ?"
Holy shit, he didn't know it was me. I decided I could have this for myself.
"Tessa, what's yours?"
"Anthony, how would you like to go somewhere else?"
I didn't need to think about this; I wanted it. I've always wanted him to be my first, and it looks like...

"W-what are you doing?" I asked, my breathing getting heavier as his warm fingers inched towards my bikini bottom.
"You called me a coward earlier, remember?" He asked, his other hand wrapped around my throat and lips torturingly brushing over mine "So let's see how much you can handle if I break the boundaries."
"I haven't said anything wrong," I breathed out, the collision of the heat of our bodies made the wetness between my thighs build more
"Oh really?" He hooked my legs around his waist le...

Aidan, a billionaire and CEO of Empire is known for the title 'Top 5 Hottest Bachelor' for two reasons. His extremely good-looks and for not wanting to get married, at least until he reaches forty but his mother keeps on setting him with unwanted dates, leaving him frustrated.
Kenna, Aidan's best friend, is a doctor who has never found the right time for love. She has always been busy with work to an extent that she forgets about her own personal life.
Both of them has always been close ever s...

Elona, who is eighteen, is on the cusp of a new chapter- her final year of high school. A dream she has her sights on becoming a model. But beneath her confident exterior lies a secret crush on someone unexpected- Mr. Crane, her best friend's father.
Three years ago, after the tragic loss of his wife, Mr. Crane, a painfully handsome man, stands as a hardworking billionaire, a symbol of both success and unspoken pain. His world intersects with Elona's through her best friend, their shared street...

Aidan, a billionaire and CEO of Empire is known for the title 'Top 5 Hottest Bachelor' for two reasons. He is extremely good-looking and for not wanting to get married, at least until he reaches forty but his mother keeps on setting him with unwanted dates, leaving him frustrated.
Kenna, Aidan's best friend, is a doctor who has never found the right time for love. She has always been busy with work to an extent that she forgets about her own personal life.
Both of them hav...

"Crawl to me, Jo," his voice was a low, dangerous command. I crossed my arms, glaring at him, trying to ignore the pulse of my blood and the heat pooling between my legs.
"Make me," I shot back. His smirk was the only warning I got. I knew I was in deep trouble.
Joan Madison has always despised Aaron Thompson, her best friend's arrogant, insufferable brother. The feeling was mutual—until it wasn't.
A vacation meant to be a getaway with her friend Rhoda takes a sharp turn when Joan finds herself ...

A young girl finds herself at a masked club party with her friends to celebrate her eighteenth birthday. She engages in a passionate one night stand with a total stranger under a mask. She returns home feeling guilty and is even more devastated when she finds out that she’s pregnant then she aborts the child. She got to realise that Alexander, her fathers childhood friend, who is more than twice her age, was the man she had a one night stand with. He blackmails her into a secret relationship whe...

At Eighteen Gabriella Chambers has no wolf, has no mate so why is the Academy for shifters demanding she attends? When Gabbie gets there she's demoted to omega, the lowest rank in the pack. The only thing she looks forward to is seeing her best friend Alex again.
Things have changed Alex is a feared and respected Alpha Heir, strong and s*xy, but Gabbie is still his best friend. Even though an Alpha and an Omega must never mix.
Things get complicated when Alpha Kade, Alex's rival for battle sea...

"She will never know."
"I don't want to be a secret," I told him, kissing him slowly. "I want to be the girl of your books." There was nothing between us but his pair of jeans pants hanging around his well-built torso. I wanted to feel him deep inside of me.
"Please take my body and my soul," I told him slowly as he took off his jeans pants and kissed my forehead.
Forbidden love has never been easy, especially with more than two hearts beating with the same desire....

In “For Better, For Curse,” Oliver Harrington has always kept his distance—until Gabriel enters his life. As their bond deepens, secrets long buried begin to resurface. Haunted by the tragic death of his brother and the dark legacy of his family’s pact with a water goddess, Oliver struggles to keep his powers under control. But when Gabriel uncovers a journal revealing the truth behind the Harrington family’s curse, they are thrust into a dangerous world of magic, betrayal, and love that could e...

After getting married, my husband never touched me. I always thought he was asexual until one day, to my shock, I discovered he was having an affair!
Because he and his lover were too intense during sex, his lover ended up in the hospital!
What shocked me even more was that the person he was having an affair with was his sister!
At that moment, my heart felt like it was being scalded with boiling oil, the pain was excruciating...

"Breaking News Kyler Jacobs has been taken off the market rumor has it she is the CEO of CoLab Inc what a match made in heaven."
"No, my dream guy is off the market someone please tell me this is a joke."
'Wedding bells are ringing'
"Can that woman really be that beautiful? They look perfect together they look like royalty."
"OMW HAS NO ONE SEEN THEY ARE WEARING MATCHING OUTFITS. TALK ABOUT ROMANTIC"
"Oh, my word yes they are matching why didn't I see that before."
While reading the comments I a...

Ziva thought she had it all - a loving family, a respected position in her pack, and a bright future ahead of her. But when her eighteenth birthday arrived, everything changed.
Her pack turned on her, her boyfriend betrayed her, and she was forced into an arranged marriage with the enemy of her Alpha father.
And to make matters worse, her new husband has an identical twin brother who is also her mate.
Torn between her duty and the consuming passion that threatens to consume her, will Ziv...

She's a girl who lost her parents to the rogues attack and was left with ger two elder brothers who decided to change her environment for fear of being hunted again.
Stacey got into a new school. She was treated bad for not being a werewolf.
But everything changed when it happens that she's the Alpha's mate.
Will she agree to be his mate after her parents were killed by creatures like him?

This is the anticipated sequel to… "ESCLAVE"
He came along and re-carved my fate… but he didn't make things better… he made things worse… for me. He became my master… my owner, my captor, my tormentor. My life didn't become easier… it turned out harder to live.
In one night… he gave everything I'd ever wanted… needed… desired… and just like that… he took it all back… on the very next morning. He showed me that I was broken… a deviant… like him… then left me alone to deal with the consequences...

“No one had ever woken in the centuries that I’d been having my sex sessions.”
Mila Descoudres is a succubus, sex is the one thing she needs to survive. When she seeks out fresh meat for her daily fix, she does a daring thing and sneaks into an Alpha Kings bedroom. What she got was way more than a night of great mind-blowing sex. She got an addiction, an addiction that only can be tamed by the Alpha king himself.
Elias Woods is the Alpha King. Deliciously tanned body with a godly tempting V-cu...

"I reject him. I break the fetters of our mate bond." She croaked out and stabbed herself with the Silver Oak dagger.
* Natasha Wolf is the daughter of the fearless Beta of the Gemini Pack. Hated and Abused by her father and sister, they continually strip her of all the powers she has been blessed with. When Natasha gets the Alpha as her Mate, her sister, Alyssa deceives him and causes him to hate Natasha.
* Dante Steele is the cold-hearted and fierce Alpha of the Black Cedar Pack. His mat...

"Peace you have a girlfriend remember" Dennis said stopping him from kissing her any further
"I know" he replied and made an attempt to kiss her again but she stops him
"And you remember am different" she added
"I love you that way" he assures her and kissed her before she could stop him again
Dennis knows she is different, she is not like every other person and have some strange powers, after running for years hiding away from unknown killer who killed her mother Dennis met with Peace a bri...

"You're not normal," I breathed deeply, "not the way you speak, nor the way you make me feel or the way you look."
To that, he sucked my clit into his mouth, making me cum instantly.
"You deserve more than this world has to offer, my angel," he breathed into my neck, filling me with love.
No one likes the idea of death, nor the terrifying thought of a serial killer in their small town neighborhood.
Celeste lives in Nevada, her life just got better and although she's a loner, she loves h...

Emily was taken at 15 when Alpha Riden killed her pack.
She fell in love with the alpha's son Ryan, but when he disappeared, her life got worse.
When ther here was no sign of the alpha and luna. Jeremy managed to save her.
But when alpha-ridden hunts Jeremy and her down. While Johnny decides to bring in an old friend.
Now she had to choose between revenge and love.