Sold To The Monster: My Silent Nightmare

I’ve spent eighteen hundred days as a silent ghost in the Crawford estate, a place where the air smells of expensive cigars and terror. My father, Senator Jed Bowen, sold me to Alek Crawford to pay off his gambling debts, trading his daughter’s life for a seat in the Senate. Alek doesn’t just want my service; he wants my complete submission. He tracks my every move through cameras and bruises my skin just to see if I’ll flinch. He thinks he owns me because he holds the contract, and his mother ensures I’m kept in my place with slaps and insults. When a scandal involving my half-sister and Alek’s brother hit the news, the house turned into a war zone. Alek cornered me in the dark, his hands stained with blood and ink, whispering that I was nothing but a receipt for his family's money. He’s been forcing me to take pills for years, believing they’ve kept me drugged and mute. "She needs to speak again," he told a surgeon over the phone. "Whatever it takes." He thinks he’s fixing a broken toy, but he’s actually planning to carve the silence into my throat permanently. He has no idea that I’ve been switching those pills for years, or that I’m more awake and more dangerous than he could ever imagine. I’ve endured the biting cold and the crushing weight of his obsession, waiting for a single sign that my nightmare could end. Tonight, a secret message reached me in the rain, confirming that the only man I ever loved has finally finished his mission. Kole is coming back for me. The contract review is tomorrow, but I’m not planning on signing anything. I’m planning on taking back everything they stole from me, starting with my voice.

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Chapter 5

The next morning, Eva pushed the breakfast cart into the master suite. Her thumb was wrapped in a thick bandage.

The room was dim. Alek was still in bed, tangled in the gray sheets. He was muttering something in his sleep, his brow furrowed in distress.

Eva set the coffee cup on the nightstand. Clink.

Alek's eyes flew open.

In a blur of motion, his hand shot out. He grabbed her wrist.

He grabbed the injured hand.

Eva let out a muffled cry of pain as his fingers squeezed the bandage.

Alek blinked, the fog of sleep clearing. He saw her face. He looked down at his hand crushing her injury.

He didn't let go.

He yanked her forward. Eva lost her balance, falling against the side of the mattress.

Alek sat up. The sheet fell to his waist. His chest was bare, defined muscle moving with his heavy breathing.

"Why didn't you move?" he rasped, his voice thick with sleep.

Eva pointed to her throat with her free hand. I can't.

Alek scoffed. He released her wrist, but immediately reached up and grabbed her chin. He pulled her face close to his.

"There was a hair on my pillow," he lied. His eyes searched hers. "Sloppy."

Eva stared back. The pillowcase was fresh. He just wanted a reason to touch her.

His hand slid down from her jaw. His fingers wrapped around her neck, not choking, but resting. His thumb pressed against her carotid artery.

He closed his eyes.

Eva held her breath. Her heart was racing, pounding against his fingertips. Thump-thump. Thump-thump.

Alek kept his eyes closed. He seemed to be drinking in the rhythm of her fear.

"Fast," he whispered. "Like a little bird flying into a window."

Eva felt bile rise in her throat. She stood rigid, forced to endure his touch.

Alek's eyes snapped open. They were clear now, sharp and cold.

"Are you cursing me in that head of yours, Eva?"

Eva averted her gaze.

Alek pushed her away abruptly, as if she had burned him.

"Draw my bath," he ordered, turning away. "And get out."

Eva stumbled back. She rushed into the bathroom, her legs shaking.

She turned the faucets on full blast. The water roared into the massive stone tub.

She gripped the edge of the sink, staring at herself in the mirror. Hate burned in her chest, hot and purifying.

Ring.

Alek's phone.

Eva reached out and turned the water flow down, just enough to hear.

"Dr. Evans," Alek's voice floated in from the bedroom. It was different. Respectful. Desperate.

"Is the team ready?"

Pause.

"I don't care about the cost. I want the best. The vocal cord reconstruction... yes."

Eva froze.

"She needs to speak again," Alek said. "Fix it. Whatever it takes."

Eva gripped the sink until her knuckles turned white.

He wasn't talking about Arvo or Britt. The specificity... vocal cord reconstruction. A cold dread washed over her. He suspected. This wasn't about fixing someone; it was about exposing her. Or worse, ensuring her silence was permanent, carved into her throat with a surgeon's blade.

Hypocrite. Monster.

She turned the water back up, drowning out his voice, drowning out the terror.

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Elsa is a werewolf with alpha blood separated from her pack after years of war. Her inability to shift from a childhood trauma causes the other werewolves to segregate her, believing her to be a human. Unable to shift to her wolf form until she is almost at capture point after a raid. Damian has a soft spot for her, helping her all the years they have known each other. Protecting her from both their attacks and human, but she is yet to realize her feeling for him with her wolf locked deep within her. Things only take an unlikely turn when they catch the eye of a harsh alpha's beta, Caspian, who wants them to join his alpha's pack. Their refusal fuels his hate for them, more when he loses his men trying to fight them. Does things get worse for Elsa when everyone realizes she is a Luna in the making, or Caspian failure bodes more than just the tip of a few men dying?

Action Romance Werewolf

9.4

Her Revenge Her Temptation

9.4

Lucy is a cheerful human princess who enjoyed her peaceful life at the palace but mainly on the busty village streets. What will happen when she sneaks out as usual, only to return and find out her father had been defeated by an unknown man will her life change for good or bad or gray as she tries to get back her father's throne even if it meant staying under the enemy's nose. will she take her revenge or fall for the one person who has ruined her father. she has to make up her mind between following her heart or be blinded by a false revenge.

Action Modern Mystery

9.5

My Mate Lied About My Death to Steal My Pack

9.5

Betrayed by the man she loved, an Alpha's daughter is left for dead while her mate spreads lies of her demise to seize control of her pack. Stripped of her birthright and left with nothing, she must survive the shadows to reclaim her stolen throne. Driven by a thirst for justice and the need to expose his treachery, she prepares to return. The once-loyal mate will soon face the wrath of the wolf he thought he had successfully destroyed.

Action Fantasy Werewolf

9.6

NEXUS: Heart of Time

9.6

When a global anomaly awakens dormant powers within them, a neuroscientist, a physicist, and an artist discover they are connected by a force that defies time itself. Mert sees the memories of strangers. Elena witnesses the fabric of reality crack. Kai paints symbols from a past he never knew. Thrown together by fate, they are not alone. Across the globe, others are awakening too-gifted with extraordinary abilities. But they are not the only ones. A powerful cabal-a ruthless financier, a tech mogul, and a charismatic influencer-sees the anomaly not as a warning, but as a weapon. Their ambition shatters the timeline, scattering the group across history: from the smog-choked streets of Victorian London to a transhumanist future, and into a terrifying parallel present. Broken into three teams, the group must hunt their enemies through time itself. To survive, they must master their new powers and forge bonds of love and loyalty strong enough to bend the laws of physics. Their final battle will not be fought in any single era, but at the crossroads of all realities, where the key to existence-the very heart of time-is at stake.

Action Modern Romance Sci-Fi

7.4

Rejected By The Alpha, Bound As His Luna

7.4

The day I watched him deny me completely after the night he had marked me as his mate, it broke my heart into a million pieces. I watched Andrew Kane, the ruthless Alpha of the Northwest Pack and my supposed mate. A night before he had whispered into my ears. "You're mine and mine alone, Elena." But how could I have possibly thought that same man was going to be standing right in front of me and yelling "I reject her. She's not worthy to be my Luna." We went from love to hate but I could never have thought fate was going to play tricks. Even if he didn't want me to be his Luna, he must, to carry out his assignment as an Alpha. Forced into a marriage with him, he only hated me the most and I wanted revenge so badly but what happens when the man who doesn't want anything to do with you begins to make you have second thoughts while he pampers you on his bed!

Action Romance Werewolf

7.1

The Divorced Genius Wife's Spectacular Return

7.1

After three years of marriage, Kasie's husband forced her to sign a divorce agreement leaving her with nothing. He destroyed her academic career just to protect his adopted sister, Calista, from a lab accident she had caused. Forced to return to her hometown, Kasie found her biological family had also been completely brainwashed by Calista. Her brothers dragged her to a clinic to donate bone marrow for Calista's fake illness. When Kasie struggled, they pushed her down the stairs, breaking her arm, while her ex-husband watched and called her pathetic. They tore up her only job offer. When she was attacked by a drunk in an alley, her own brother drove right past her desperate screams just to answer Calista's phone call. The final blow came when Calista stole Kasie's life's work, published the research as her own, and cried on national television. "My own sister... she was jealous. She tried to claim my research as her own." Penniless, publicly ruined, and evicted by her own brothers, Kasie was thrown out into a mob of angry reporters. She didn't understand why her own flesh and blood treated her like a monster, or why Calista's fake tears were worth more than Kasie's actual life. But as she unlocked the door to a secret apartment she had rented years ago—the one safe haven they didn't know about—the tears finally stopped. She had nothing left to lose, which meant it was time to make them pay.

Action Modern Romance

Sold To The Monster: My Silent Nightmare

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