Found 4064 setting for the story of an hour Stories

Move constantly. Never stay in one place for more than a day.
Keep your head down, don’t mix with other survivors.
Stay hidden. Don’t let them spot you.
Stay away from cities.
Don’t take unnecessary risks.

The world ended mid April, civilisation as we knew it was never the same again, some say that the gates of hell opened and swallowed everything in its path; and I can’t say that they are entirely wrong. Electricity was the first thing to go, the first step in their plan to ma...

Losing this war means captured by the enemy empire and considered as their prostitutes and servants. Dreaming that situation made my heart race even more. I settled myself on the floor, close to the door. Time passed but no one came unlocking the door and allow me to fight for our pride.
"Attention..." the speaker said loudly. I quickly stood up and I could feel my heart coming out of the skin. Anything can be announced at this moment. " As the Prince of Pratapgarh killed mercilessly by our s...

Seff stood on the stage with her friend lined up like breeding stock waiting to be chosen by two Alphas to have the honor of joining one of their harems with the honor to mate and birth them children.
It was Seff’s worst nightmare. But she had no choice if she wanted to protect her best friend.
They were close. Their harsh gazes roamed each Omega body down the line until they were looking at Seff. Their faces dawned with deep expression—surprise, then confusion, then knowledge, as if understan...

From dodging airborne slot machines to an unplanned swim in the fountain of a luxury hotel, it's safe to say that a trip to Las Vegas doesn't go as Carrie Blair had planned it to. A part-time teacher by day and an artist by night, Carrie thought that a fun, relaxing weekend in Vegas with her best friend was exactly what the two of them needed to unwind.
Instead, her presence in the city of lights attracts the attention of a rival Alpha.
Luca Ronan thunders into Carrie's life with plenty of d...

I inhale his scent, and then I bite, shocked to find that my teeth are sharper, it doesn’t take much effort at all, and the moment his blood hits my tongue, I feel it, I feel the bond snap into place.
And it feels amazing.
I pull back, licking the wound as they did for me, and then I am turned around and placed into Dylan’s arms. He smiles down at me before guiding me to the same spot, and before he can even speak, I bite down as hard as I can.
We have sealed our fates, and we are bound to one a...

In the aftermath of the death of Italy's most powerful mafia boss, his only granddaughter, Ana, becomes the heir to the criminal empire. However, Ana is not like her father or grandfather; she has no desire to continue the family's illicit business. But her wish to leave the organization is met with resistance from the other mafia members, who believe she is the only one capable of leading them.
Meanwhile, a bodyguard named Dante is hired to protect Ana as she transitions into the mafia, and soo...

Jake Anderson has been a singer/dancer for almost his entire life until he got his first break at the young age of seventeen. He as been a superstar now, for almost seven years and all his shows is sold out in a matter of hours. Then one night everything in his life change.
Layla Pierce never really knew what she wanted to do but she studied a few courses in beauty and fashion. She always felt kind of out of place. Then she got a job, by sheer chance as a consultant for the world famous supers...

Nina Spark's world turns upside down after her father, the Rogue King, meets his demise at the hands of the Alpha from the Bloodmoon pack, leaving her orphaned and in the care of her uncle, Gray.
Her situation worsens when her uncle sets out to confront the Alpha and ends up being captured by him. Nina finds herself compelled to venture into the Bloodmoon pack's territory to rescue her uncle.
To her astonishment, Nina discovers that the ruthless Alpha is not only her mate but also her captor, ...

Adelaide, a homeschooling mother, had no idea that her life, and those of her children, were about to change when she receives a hand-carved metal necklace from her sister. Without giving the necklace, or the unique pendant, much thought, Adelaide is unaware that the handcrafted necklace is the source of her life-changing journey.
After being transported back to 1600s Canada - a time of tribal warfare and the ever-present danger of disease - history comes to life as Adelaide must survive. Det...

Andrea Lopez is a beautiful woman with a wonderful life. Any woman would wish to have her life, but you can't be sure her life is great. Andrea has everything but the one thing she desires most, Love. All she has ever received from Love is pain in return. There is no love in her life, but everything changes when she takes a trip to Italy. She reunites with her first Love, Stefano Costanzo, a cold, ruthless man who hates Love. He would rather pull his heart out of his body than feel Love, but ...

'Stefano, you don't have a say in who I date."
'I do when it concerns your safety."
'Since when did you care about my safety?"
'Since the day you walked into my life," Stefano says, shocking me to the bone.
Andrea Lopez is a beautiful woman with a wonderful life.
Andrea has everything but the one thing she desires most, Love.
All she has ever received from Love is pain in return. There is no love in her life, but everything changes when she takes a trip to Italy.
She reunites with her f...

Revenge on the Three College Playboys
"You were delicious, little mouse," it seemed to be Mason's voice.
"Who would have thought she'd be so tasty, definitely worth it," Jacob sounded more distant.
"Even better, a virgin. There's nothing like a tight woman in every way," Benjamin added, and they all laughed.
What happened? What did they do to me? The pain worsened each time I was moved; I was lifted and thrown several times. Then I felt a cold breeze o...

Katrina was betrayed and Forsaken by her husband and her twin sister.
She wanted a divorce but discovered that werewolf norms bans such.
She was lured to a hospital by her twin sister and set ablze and died a painful death.
She found out their deception scheme after death, and wished for a second chance at life she was reborn into her past and was given a second chance to life . Will she be able to get revenge, or will she fail once more?

Not wanting to waste any more time, I quickly crawled out of the blanket and walked over to Gerard who was sitting at the end of the bed, and touched his hand gently, "I need to be stronger. Please hurt me." I pleaded like a puppy asking to be fed.
He dismissed my hand and stood up, walking towards the door. All he did was lock the door and then walk back towards me with slow but sure steps. His hand moved to remove the watch from around his wrist without taking his eyes off me.
Gerard sto...

A small-town girl who was raised in the system starts to sense many changes in herself. On her search for her Real parents, she finds a lot of darkness from her past, the meets a man or so she thought who changes her every wish and prayers change in a blink of an eye, and her true destiny is revealed.

When Elijah saw Alicia for the first time, he knew she was going to be the mother of his child; the sway of her hips drove him completely crazy. The mafia king urgently needed his queen, and that was going to be Alicia, so he made her a proposal she couldn't refuse.
Facing an economic crisis and her father's illness, Alicia accepted to be the wife and mother of Elijah Morgan's child, thus becoming the mafia queen.

I'm Ailee and the princess of the largest most feared Irish Mafia and next in line for the thrown. I'm known as the Ice Queen because of my ruthlessness towards my enemies. I came to the Renegades to find my father and get his bone marrow to save my life. I don't need anything else from him ort his club. That is until the resident cowboy catches my eye. He says I'm his but can our world's collide without a deadly expulsion?
I'm Lug Nut and from the moment I see a picture of Ailee I know she is...

"We have women here for anything you desire. Go! Have fun! Pick a demon and have a good time.”
“What if I want the devil instead?” He saw her lips part slightly. He’d caught her off guard.
“You are quite persistent aren’t you.?” He smiled. “Only when I see something I really want.”
Her lips parted again, out of slight shock. “I don’t participate in the activities occurring outside.” Noah stood, and leaned into her.
“That’s not what I asked. You said pick who I wanted and have a good tim...

She's fire; fierce, relentless, impossible to contain. He's ice; cold, hard, impossible to break. A collision of two opposite souls destined to remain worlds apart, but when fire meets ice, one of them will have to surrender.
Italian business mogul slash mafia don, Antonio Camillo Gray, is all shades of morally gray. With one foot in the corporate world and the other in the underworld, he is known for his ruthlessness, manipulation, and taking a life without as much as flinching. He’s foreign t...

"Fuck.."I moan as my feverish skin makes me dizzy with lust.
[Yes.] "Evet, Mila. You make me want to ravage you when I should be disgusted by the thought of even touching you." He mutters.
"But I'm not. Instead, everything about you makes me mad with desire and I can not control it. God's, I tried to but I don't want to anymore." He removes his hand from the wall, wrapping his fingers around my jaw and he forces me to stare up at him.
"You've already had a taste of me and one taste is all you...

“I Lucas Gray, Alpha of the Dark moon pack, denounce you Sophia Roman as a member of this pack!”
Sophia was denounced by her pack for shifting four years later than she was supposed too. Sophia thought that it was the end of her life, not knowing it was the beginning of a great adventure.
Two days after Sophia became a rogue, she was attacked by older rogues but was saved by the members of The Sky Blue pack. Sophia was later taken to the Alphas and realized that she is mated...

Drugged by her own father into sleeping with him, she found herself trapped in a forced and loveless marriage, marked by secrets and betrayals. He had another woman in mind and he went to Europe, abandoning her and their son. Four years later, he returns, but not by choice: the son Liam was born to is seriously ill. The only chance of saving his life is to give birth to a new child, a sacrifice that forces them to confront feelings they swore they would never revisit. Will he once again give in ...

When I found out my bestie Amanda is pregnant with my Alpha King husband David's child, my world was turned upside down. I couldn't believe they have planned to use me and ditch me ever since we were 18 years old.
Killed by their poison, I was luckily granted another chance by the moon goddess to relive my life, starting right before my wedding.
I knew I wouldn't waste this chance. I had to stop our marriage, protect my parents and, most importantly,
REVENGE
But I didn't expect David's biggest...

"I watched my daughter die while he fucked his mistress. Now I'll burn everything he loves to the ground."
When I married Dorian Ravencroft, I thought I'd hit the jackpot. Instead, he accused me of getting knocked up to trap him, then abandoned us both. I raised our sick little girl alone while he paraded his college flame Belladonna through every high-society bedroom in the city.
When Isolde's bone cancer gave her weeks to live, I made my devil's bargain—thirty days with our dying daughter fo...

Liam O’Grady is a powerful loan shark and realtor, a man mixed in crime and an underground fighter, a King. He owns all the main gambling dens in the city and in the areas around and does not hesitate to use muscle or kill his opponents.
Between them, his half-brother Finn St Just and he run the city of Hunter’s Folly, with the strength of their muscle and money power.
The brothers are Dominants and they enjoy subjugating the women they take. And they have the habit of sharing a woman.
But the ...

When you give up your dream job for an abandoned baby at your doorstep,
Five years later, a mysterious billionaire sends you to the police station?!
Him: How dare you steal my daughter?!
Turns out, his daughter and your adopted girl are twins?
And now, you're forced to move into his mansion...

You spend a whole year carefully prepping for pregnancy… only to find out your husband cheated on you with his stepsister—and got her pregnant. 💔
So, you divorce that piece of trash and decide to have a baby on your own. But plot twist… the sperm donor you chose? Turns out he’s a freaking foreign prince?! 👑😱

Thalia was once a meek and obedient Luna, trapped in a loveless marriage to Killian, the heir of Thornwood. Betrayed by those she trusted, she is abandoned and humiliated by her cruel husband, while his affair with the manipulative Astrid destroys her world. Stripped of her title, poisoned, and left for dead, Thalia’s fate seems sealed—until a mysterious adventurer saves her, bringing her to the hidden world of Stormclaw.
In this new land, Thalia begins to heal and uncover the truth of Thornwoo...

Selena Vance is entangled in a high-stakes game of family honor and hidden debts.
When her sister flees an arranged marriage, Selena is left to face the altar and Aiden Evans- a man as enigmatic as he is wealthy.
Bound by a reluctant vow while her heart belongs to another.
As secrets and lies weave a tangled web around her, Selena must choose between the chains of duty and the whispers of forbidden love.

In the kingdom of Lupania, humans are nothing but prey. Disguised as a boy, Ariadne sacrifices her freedom to protect her sister, only to catch the attention of the ruthless Beast King, Magnus.
“You’re bold for a mere human,” Magnus growls. “Careful…it’s a trait that could kill you.”
But when his brother, the enigmatic and compassionate Prince Callan, uncovers her secret, alliances shift, and hearts collide.
“Trust me, Ariadne,” Callan whispers. “I’ll get you out of here.”
Torn between two p...

Gabriel Wilsons, the well known 'devil' in the whole business industry of Chicago. He has everything that you wish for your dream man to have. Power, money, perfection, handsomeness and a body like a Greek God. But he's in love. He's still in love with the woman from his past.
The same woman he has given everything he had before, but eventually betrayed him, left him and shattered his heart into pieces. And because of that, he turned into a cold, heartless, rude and an arrogant billionaire who ...

"Well, you seem happy and relaxed. I see you have wasted no time moving on." Smith voiced out in anger, "Does he have any idea that you are just using him to get back at me?" Smith spit out, shaking his head in the process.
"Smith, why on earth are you here?" I hit him with clenched teeth, shocked by his presence.
"I saw your car parked out front and I was skeptical if it was yours. I wanted to see you, I guess but I never expected to see that-" he gestures towards Ronnell, who continues to wa...

Veronica's whole world turns upside down when her parents are murdered. She becomes the Donna of her father's mafia. After many betrayals and heartache, she finds the love of a man. The man turns out to be the soon to be El Jefe of a Mexican drug cartel. Will their love work? Will their relationship just be the sex or will it be the real love she has always wanted?

Dear god. I had slept with a CEO. My new Boss. Who I was working directly with.
Cold sweat clung to my skin, and my entire body froze in place.
"Good day." His deep baritone voice sent chills up my spine. His voice seemed to command the entire room at that moment, holding me captive. Clearly I wasn't the only one affected from the way others straightened in response.
Did he choose me because of the night we spent together? Was I jumping to conclusions?
"Yes?" He asked, bringing me back to realit...

Isolde was on the run after committing an unforgivable crime in her brothel. She flees for her life but finds herself trapped in the devil’s lair, a domain owned by the cursed rogue lycan lord, Draco.
This cruel fate was the beginning of her torture as Isolde was captured and chosen as Draco’s Breeder.
Being chosen as a breeder for the dark lord was a sentence, especially for a savage male who had murdered nine of his Lunas. Now she faced the same fate as his previous Lunas.
Isolde must d...

On the run from the Alpha Kieran of the North Pack, Tish, a human, needs to figure out where to turn next.All she knows is that she has to get as far away from the North Pack as she can. Hoping to leave her mistakes behind her, she takes off with nothing to her name. While she is hitchhiking South, she is picked up by an unlikely ally who knows about her past. Instead of returning her to Alpha Kieran, he takes her under his wing and makes her a member of his pack.
Is this the fresh start that ...

“I really appreciate you coming tonight.” She said, nervously fidgeting with her keys.
“It was my pleasure.” I said, refusing to break eye contact with her.
I took a step closer to her. She blushed and her breathing became shallow.
“So, class tomorrow?” She asked, nervousness in her eyes.
“Mmhm.” I said, leaning into her.
She didn’t stop me. I kissed her. She pulled away for a moment. I could tell she was considering the pros and cons. She came right back and kissed me again...

"I, Alpha Zane of the Blue Pack, offer you, Bella my daughter , as a bride to the four alphas of the Red Moon pack," he declared, his words laced with venom. "In exchange, I demand my freedom and your mercy." The offer hung heavy in the air, a twisted bargain born of desperation and spite.
But as the alphas of the Red Moon pack grappled with the weight of Alpha Zane's proposition, Bella found herself thrust into a world of uncertainty and turmoil. With her fate now inextricably linked to the wh...

"You're pregnant.". Her words dropped like a bomb.
"What?" I asked, perplexed. "H-how is this even possible?"
Suddenly, memories from that night came pouring into my head like a fountain; My skin shuttered as it remembered his touch. My ears rang as it recalled his groans and my cries of pleasure from that night. My lips quivered as it remembered the passionate kisses he planted on them. We had made love!
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After walking in on her boyfriend cheating on her, a hurt Mélie Shapman gets drunk and...

Wren's POV
I had an unexpected one night stand with my boyfriend's brother, Hayden Miracle.
Just as I felt guilty and struggled with whether to confess to my boyfriend, Ralph Miracle, I discovered that my boyfriend and my best friend were lying in the same bed!
A massive shock engulfed me, what should I do?
Ralph's POV
"I, Wren Allen of the Doomclaw Pack, reject you, Ralph Miracle of the Lightcrest Pack as my mate and Alpha!"
Wren's rejection was like a sharp steel nail, driving deep into ...

“He showed up for his sister’s wedding. He left wearing the dress.”
When Liam LaRosa returns to New York, he expects his sister's wedding, not his wedding. But after his twin sister takes her own life hours before her forced mafia wedding, Liam is given an impossible ultimatum: take her place at the altar… or watch his family fall.
Now bound to Donatello Moranno, the city’s most feared mafia boss, Liam becomes a pawn in a bloodstained game of power, loyalty, and twisted desire. But what starts...

Alexis Carter, a brilliant but isolated scientist, has always been more comfortable with data than with people. But when she decodes a mysterious signal from deep space, her world is turned upside down. The signal leads her to Kayden, a renegade alien fugitive who claims that the technology she’s uncovered holds the key to reshaping reality. As they race against time to retrieve the hidden device, Alexis finds herself caught between her loyalty to Earth and her growing connection to Kayden. But ...

After being forced to marry the alpha king, Katlyn feels her life is a living hell, but she never expected this sinister, frivolous alpha to become the perfect, adoring husband.
"Honey, you're so sweet," he said, kissing her cheek

Vegas sophomore. Dad's gambling debts. Broken arm. Dead grandmother. Then I found Alexander bleeding out in an alley — the Desert Reaper himself. I thought he'd be my weapon for revenge. Instead, I fell for the bastard. Now the FBI's involved, and we're all drowning in blood and betrayal...

When Edie Marshall meets a mysterious - and drop-dead gorgeous - man in the woods just outside her small town, she has no idea who he is or where he’s come from.
She has no idea why she has such an instant, intense connection with this dangerous-looking man, with his arms full of tattoos and his deep, velvety voice.
She has no idea why she trusts him enough to tell him things she’s never told anyone else.
And she definitely has no idea that their brief, passionate encounter will lead to...

Maggie Blankenship is a hot mess - broke, unemployed, and down on her luck.
So when she’s offered the chance to be in a movie, she wonders if her luck is changing. At the very least, she sees it as an opportunity to inject some excitement into her oh-so-dull life, if only for a day.
She has no idea how much her life is about to change.
It turns out that the movie is being directed by Orlando Fontaine - the intense and mysterious youngest brother of the famous Fontaine family. Sparks (a...

My mother in law hated me so much cause I couldn't bear her son a baby eventhough my husband and I have spent six years in marriage. She desperately wants my husband to divorce me so she and my bestfriend set me up to be f*cked by a stranger. When my husband heard of this, he mocked me and divorced me.
While painfully dragging my luggage out of his house, I saw my pregnant bestfriend carrying her luggage inside my husband's house. Turns out my husband has impregnated my bestfriend. I cried blo...

"Blackwood, stop,"" I gasped between kisses. ""You're not yourself."
He didn't seem to hear me. His fingers tangled in my hair as he pressed his body against mine. Despite my anger, I felt my resistance weakening. The makeup bottles scattered across the counter as he lifted me onto it.
"This is insane," I whispered, even as my arms betrayed me by wrapping around his neck.
His expensive cologne filled my senses as our bodies connected. His usually cold eyes were now dark with desire, unfocused...

*I didn't know that night would become my worst nightmare. *
It was my junior year in high school. After two years of being bullied, I was now finally accepted by my peers. I had finally blossomed into a lady and now everyone wanted to become my friend. But... the thing happened.
I will never forget what happened to me that night.
I will never forget that I wasn't given the justice I deserved.
I want revenge. I want them dead...
So do my three lovers. The Underbosses of the Blood Discipl...