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 7

The staff dormitory was quiet, save for the rhythmic wheezing coming from the bottom bunk.

Eva slipped inside, closing the door softly. She had avoided the security patrol by seconds.

Sarah, her roommate, rolled over. Her face was flushed with fever.

"Eva?" Sarah rasped. She squinted in the dark. "Your face..."

Eva touched her cheek. It was raw, swollen from the scrubbing.

She nodded.

Sarah sighed, a rattling sound in her chest. "He's spiraling. I heard the kitchen staff talking. If Britt dies..."

Eva grabbed a notepad from the nightstand. She scribbled quickly.

I'm not afraid of him.

She showed it to Sarah.

Sarah laughed, a weak, humorless sound. "You should be. But... he wasn't always like this."

Eva frowned.

"My aunt worked here thirty years ago," Sarah whispered. "She saw it. Alek's birth mother, Elara. She wasn't like Hester. The pressure of this family... it broke her. They said she lost her mind. Jumped from the east tower roof. Alek saw it. He was seven." Sarah coughed, a dry, rattling sound. "Hester was her replacement, brought in to manage the family... and the boy. That's why he hates weakness," Sarah said. "And that's why he's obsessed with you. My aunt said you have Elara's eyes. Sad eyes."

Eva lowered the notepad. She felt a chill that had nothing to do with the drafty room. She didn't want his projection. She didn't want his twisted trauma bonding.

She wrote again. I am leaving.

"Nobody leaves," Sarah coughed.

Eva reached into her pocket and touched Emory's note. Someone helps.

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

The PA system screeched to life.

"All staff to the main hall. Immediately. Mr. Crawford has returned." Arthur's voice was strained.

Eva checked the clock on the wall. 10:00 PM. Emory's meeting was at midnight.

"Go," Sarah whispered, trying to sit up.

Eva pushed her back down gently. She put a finger to her lips. Stay.

Eva pulled her hood up and walked out.

The hallway was full of nervous staff shuffling toward the main hall. The air smelled of fear.

Eva entered the grand foyer.

Alek was standing in the center of the room.

He was covered in blood.

It splattered his white dress shirt, his hands, his face. But he wasn't injured. He wasn't triumphant. His face was stark white beneath the crimson streaks, his eyes holding a hollow, feverish glaze. He moved with a terrifying, coiled energy, like a man running from his own skin.

In his right hand, he held a bent iron golf club. The head of the club was distorted.

Silence fell over the fifty staff members.

Alek's eyes scanned the crowd. Hunting.

They landed on Eva. He took a half-step toward her, his gaze fixing on her cheek. The raw, scrubbed skin was a flag of defiance. A flicker of something cold and sharp crossed his face before he masked it, pointing the bent club at her.

"You."

Eva stepped forward. Her legs felt like lead. Every eye was on her.

Alek reached into his pocket and pulled out a pristine white towel. He threw it at her.

It landed at her feet.

"Clean it," he said, gesturing to the club.

Eva bent down. She picked up the towel. She walked toward him.

The smell of metallic blood hit her nose. It was fresh.

Whose blood is this?

She wrapped the towel around the club head and began to wipe.

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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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