Alpha Dane's Little Project
Vivica had spent her whole life atoning for her late father's crime. Forced to clean up after the pack members while being ridiculed for not having a wolf, she endured everything hoping that her pain would finally come to an end when Jason, the pack's Alpha, reveals her as his mate. Then, everything will fall in place and she won't have to run anymore.
What she didn't know was that Jason-her childhood friend turned lover-was just as terrible as his people, he had only been toying with her all along. At the full moon party, Jason mates with a 'reputable' wolf, kicking Vivica to the curb after fifteen years of leading her on.
Meanwhile, Adrian-Jason's estranged stepbrother-would give anything to see Jason gnash his teeth in regret. Even if it meant transforming Jason's cast-away lover into a woman he could never have access to again.
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Chapter 3
Vivica's POV
Moon-Crescent was something out of the ordinary.The tall towers, tarred streets, and lush greeneries gave the pack, which looked more like a city, a sophisticated and tranquil atmosphere.I moved in my seat, my eyes roaming the environment in utter awe as the car passed through gate after gate, finally halting in front of a massive white mansion.
"Welcome to your new home," Adrian announced.
I looked away from the window, staring at him for the first time since we entered his territory."You own all of this?" I asked, unable to hide my astonishment.
"Mhm" he nodded. "Let's go inside.The elders are waiting for us."
"The elders? Why?"
"Why not?" He squinted. "You are my mate, and I'm the Alpha. It's only normal that you meet them."
"Well...I..."
"I know this is all new, and probably overwhelming. But I want you to know that you aren't the same Vivica from an hour ago. You are with me now, and whoever is with me gets nothing but respect and honor. You are special, Viv. Embrace it."
My eyes welled up at his words.I hid my face and quickly wiped my tears.
"Shall we?"
"Yes," I nodded.
Again, Adrian opened the door for me, an act that made me uneasy.But if that was all it took to fit into this new world and never go back to Red-Bone then I'd do it.
"Your Majesty," the guards positioned at the fleet of stairs leading to the main entrance bowed.
Adrian only gave them a curt glance before leading me inside.
My eyes accessed the interior- a mix of modern design and the renaissance. The walls were incredibly high. Expansive artifacts and oil paintings hung against cream-colored walls, and the marble floors were so clean I could see my own reflection.
Suddenly, a girl with bouncy black curls and sparkly brown eyes ran toward us.
"Dane!" her shrill voice cried out as threw herself at Adrian.
Tisha, my wolf, churned inside-a clear indicator that her territory had been bridged and she didn't like it. As much as I was happy she had finally awakened, it bothered me that she might land me in trouble if I didn't control her. Why was she getting jealous over a man we barely knew?
"It doesn't matter how long we've known him," Tisha growled in my mind. "He's ours."
"Who is this?" The questioned, unable to hide her disgust.
Adrian pulled away from her, something he should have done immediately.
"This is Vivica Hale. My mate" The statement rolled off his tongue so effortlessly.I suppressed the silly smile that threatened to break out on my face."Vivica, this is Arella, my cousin"
Oh. She's his cousin.
"Your what?!" Arella shouted, startling me. "Is this a joke of some sort?" she scoffed.
"It's not a joke, Arella. We'll finally be having a Luna," Adrian stated proudly.
"Your Highness" A male voice called out, and a man who was almost the same height as Adrian came into view.
"The elders have been waiting for a while now" he stopped, then quickly added. "You must be Vivica Hale."
With a subtle hint of confusion I peeked at Adrian's face for answers.
"This is Theo Reeds, my Beta," Adrian introduced him.
"Nice to meet you," I mumbled.
"Same here." He gave me a toothless smile and stepped aside. "Shall we?"
"Sure," Adrian took my hand in his without warning, and I flinched. He gazed at me-a stare meant to reassure me that he had everything under control.
Guards were positioned throughout the expansive hallway; every single one of them gave a bow as we passed.We arrived at the entrance of the council room. I exhaled loudly, a breath I didn't even realize I was holding.
"Relax. As long as we are together no one is going to harm you."
I nodded, and his Beta pushed the door open. The room suddenly went quiet as every eye landed on us,m-on me, to be precise.
"Your Majesty!" They chorused.
"I apologize for the delay," he muttered.
I just stood there, awkward and clueless. The only times I had ever been to the gathering of pack elders were when I needed to serve drinks or food, and it had ended in chaos every time. Adrian pulled me toward the table, drawing out a chair right next to the seat of honor at the head.
I sat down uneasily, every fibre of my being screaming at me to get up and flee.You don't belong here. You have to leave! The voice persisted.
Adrian took his seat, and immediately one of the elders spoke.
"We were told you went to the mating ceremony at the other pack," the man-whom I later found out was named Tristan- said, his eyes strained on me even though i
He was talking to Adrian.
"Yes. And as fate would have it, I came back with my mate," Adrian announced gleefully.
"A mate? From a rival pack? Your Highness, is this a-"
"I have told you a million times that Red-Bone does not possess what it takes to be tagged a 'rival' pack." Adrian snarled. "Do not piss me off, Elder Santos."
"Forgive me, Your Highness. It's just that marrying outside of our perimeter is unsafe for us. You have spent years building this ethereal territory; why risk losing it by bringing in an intruder?"
The rest of the elders mumbled their approval of Elder Santos.
"Vivica is not an intruder. She is my mate, my fated one," Adrian emphasized, his voice echoing through the room. "It might take you all a while to adjust, but you have no choice but to accept her."
"But Your Highness-"
"One more word and I'll have you out of this territory for good." His voice was calm, but it carried an underlying tone that sent shivers down my spine.
"This gathering is over," he declared.
The elders grumbled among themselves, but no one dared to speak out.They all rose and were about to leave when the door flung open and Adrian's cousin marched in.
"Wait!" she yelled. "That woman!" She pointed at me.
My heart sank into my stomach at her words, and every head in the room spun in my direction.
"That woman isn't just some lowly intruder like you all think" Arella sneered, her fingers pointing at me accusingly. "That's Vivica Hale! The daughter of a renowned traitor from two decades ago!"
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7.1
Belle Triston, a pediatrician with a brilliant career faked her relationship with a billionaire. She didn't like Gabrielle Rolland's arrogance at all, but she had to become a surrogate mother to give birth to Gabrielle's offspring in order to fulfill her mother's last wishes before she died.
Their relationship was complicated because Gabrielle was married to a famous actress, Fleura Delacour. Belle and Gabrielle made an agreement that their relationship would only be professional. But unexpected things happened. Fleura's affair with her co-star left a deep wound in Gabrielle's heart. When his heart was wounded and bleeding, Belle was there to heal his wounds. Their relationship was no longer as simple as they thought when hearts started playing in it. When Gabrielle realized that he loved Belle and wanted to be with her, Fleura came and begged him for a second chance. Gabrielle had to choose, while his heart couldn't choose. Belle knew Fleura's biggest secret and she wouldn't just keep quiet. She would fight for her baby and her love for Gabrielle.
8.2
My ex-boyfriend of three years, Axel, married a perfect wealthy heiress.
I attended his wedding, not to mourn our relationship, but because he had spent the last three years bleeding me dry.
He left me with absolutely nothing but a final notice from the hospital for my dying brother's life support.
Instead of feeling guilty, Axel cornered me in the church hallway, crushing my wrist.
"I'll set you up with an apartment. You won't have to work another day in your life."
He thought he could buy my silence with spare change, while leaving my seventeen-year-old brother, Julian, to die when his treatments were cut off the very next day.
When I refused to be his dirty little secret, Axel used his power to utterly destroy my acting career.
He had my talent agency terminate my contract under a fake morals clause, publicly humiliated me on set, and blacklisted me across the entire industry.
I was shoved out into the freezing rain, left with a torn dress and absolutely no way to pay the five hundred thousand dollar medical bill.
He actually believed he could step on my brother's dying body to build his own fake empire.
He thought I was just a weak, pathetic victim who would eventually crawl back to him on my knees.
But he forgot about the one monster he was absolutely terrified of: his legitimate, ruthless billionaire half-brother, Jace Bauer.
Looking at the three positive pregnancy tests hidden in my drawer, I stepped right in front of Jace's armored Maybach.
"Marry me, and I'll give you the heir you need to secure your empire."
9.0
Grace's engagement to Dillan Hayes was nothing but a cold business transaction to secure funding for her family's company.
But when Dillan violently shoved her into a marble bar over his ex-girlfriend, leaving her bleeding, Grace didn't hesitate.
She called 911, had her fiancé arrested on the spot, and broke off the engagement.
Returning to the Albert estate, she expected chaos, but not absolute betrayal.
Her family didn't care that she had just been physically assaulted.
They were in a sheer panic because her cousin Ashly had just fled the country, abandoning a terrifying arranged marriage.
The groom was Hudson Turner, a man known across Manhattan as a disgraced, violent psychopath, paralyzed from the waist down in a severe crash.
To save themselves from the Turner family's wrath and financial ruin, Grace's aunt and father ordered her to take Ashly's place.
"You eat from this family, you live in this house! It is time you paid us back!"
Her father even threatened to freeze her bank accounts and faked a heart attack to force her compliance.
For three years, Grace had single-handedly kept the family business afloat while they squandered the profits.
Now, they were throwing her to a monster without a second thought, expecting her to rot as a crippled man's miserable nursemaid.
But they picked the wrong sacrifice.
Grace ruthlessly extorted a legal severance from her family, taking her shares and cutting all ties forever.
She walked straight into Hudson Turner's private gallery to propose a mutually beneficial, cutthroat business marriage.
However, when the prenuptial was signed, the "paralyzed" billionaire placed his hands on his wheelchair.
Slowly, deliberately, Hudson stood up to his full, imposing height of six-foot-three.
"The wheelchair is a necessary illusion for my enemies," Hudson stated calmly. "But it will never be an illusion between you and me."
9.3
I, Alpha Xavier Grayson, reject you, Karen Denmark, as my mate and Luna," he said with a smirk. "I don't need to make you accept the rejection, because you'll be gone in what seems like a couple of minutes." He smiled evilly. "I, Karen Denmark, accept your rejection," I whispered, though each word tore through me like pieces of glass.
******
She thought the mate bond would be her salvation but instead, it became her curse. Framed for a crime she didn't commit, she was cast aside, rejected by the one fate had first chosen for her. Left broken, unwanted, and betrayed, she was certain her life was over. Until the bond pulled her to another. Will he be the one to heal her brokenness, or will her presence only tear them both apart? And when the truth of her past begins to unravel, when shadows stir and hidden enemies rise... will their bond be strong enough to survive what's coming?
7.4
"Take them off yourself, or I will do it for you."
Ten sessions. Two hundred thousand dollars. Her brother's life for her body.
Dr. Avery St. Clair signed a contract in blood. To save her family, she has to fix the mind of Obsidian City's most feared monster, Dominic Kessler. He's a Mafia Don rotting from the inside out. A bullet gave him C-PTSD and a touch so sensitive he can't stand being touched. Avery is the only antidote who can calm him down. So he locked her in his villa.
But Dominic is playing a game he's already lost.
He doesn't know Avery is the woman from seven years ago. The stranger who saved him on that dark gambling ship and disappeared before sunrise.
He doesn't know the scar on his wrist is burned into her memory.
And most of all, he doesn't know the autistic little girl hiding in her clinic is his own daughter.
While Avery hides the truth behind her professional mask, their little girl feels his every nightmare. Every flashback. Every crack in his monster mask.
When the secrets finally come out, his empire will fall. He'll lose his sight. His throne. The only woman who ever made him feel human.
To win her back, he'll have to destroy the monster he became. And help her burn down the man who murdered her parents.
She won't make it easy.
This is not a love story. It's a monster learning to beg.
Why read this?
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Identity Reveal
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A Heroine Who Fights Back
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8.9
He bought her life to pay for her lover's betrayal... but he was not supposed to become obsessed with her.
Ivy is dragged into the underground compound of the Devil's Saints motorcycle club to face their most brutal enforcer. Cole is ordered to break her and find the stolen millions. But Ivy does not scream, and she does not beg. She watches him with a heavy, calculating silence that gets under his skin and makes him question the club he swore to protect. He was supposed to ruin her. So why is he the only one standing between her and a loaded gun?
He was ordered to ruin her for a betrayal she did not commit.
Locked in the underground vault of a violent motorcycle club, Ivy is forced into the custody of their most lethal enforcer. Cole is a man built on cold punishment and ruthless loyalty, tasked with breaking her to find their stolen millions. But instead of begging, her heavy, unyielding silence sparks a dark, forbidden obsession the enforcer cannot fight.
He was supposed to be her executioner. He was never meant to become the man willing to burn his own brotherhood to the ground just to claim her.