Unwanted By Her Pack, Chosen By The Alpha King
I threw myself in front of the ruthless Alpha King's convoy, risking death to demand justice against my fated mate who had forsaken our sacred bond.
But when the King brought me to Ryker's doorstep, I found him holding the local Alpha's beautiful daughter. To protect his future, Ryker pointed at my undeniable mate mark and lied to the entire pack.
"It was a lie. A paid act to comfort my dying mother."
Instantly, the pack turned on me, branding me a vicious gold-digger who exploited a dead woman's memory.
When I slapped him for blaspheming the Goddess, he snapped my arm in half in front of everyone. Later, his new mate's father threw a half-million-dollar check at my hospital bed, ordering me to take the blood money and vanish.
I was just an Omega. In their eyes, my sacred bond and my shattered heart were worthless, easily crushed under the weight of their ambition. How could the man who promised me forever turn into a monster who wanted me dead?
But my honor was not for sale. Backed by the Alpha King, I stripped Ryker of his wealth, and when they sent rogues to kidnap me that night, I threw myself from a moving van into the dark woods, ready to start my revenge.
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Chapter 3
Elara Vance's POV:
My question hung in the air, a direct challenge. Seraphina’s lips parted, a sharp retort ready on her tongue, but a voice cut through the tension before she could speak. A voice I knew better than my own.
"Elara! What in the hell are you doing here?"
Ryker Stone pushed his way through the crowd of onlookers. He was still in his training gear, his muscles slick with sweat, radiating an aura of raw, masculine power. He looked every bit the formidable warrior he was.
His eyes, however, never once met mine. He strode directly to Seraphina, pulling her behind him in a possessive, protective gesture that sent a shard of ice through my heart.
"Darling, don't worry," he murmured to her, his voice a soft caress. "This is just a misunderstanding."
Then he turned to me, and his face was a mask of cold fury. "I'm ordering you to leave my property. Now."
A bitter, painful laugh escaped my lips. "Your property? Ryker, have you forgotten where our home is? It's in the Silvermoon Forest."
A collective gasp rippled through the crowd. Seraphina's face paled, her hand tightening on Ryker’s arm. "Ryker," she whispered, her voice tight with suspicion, "her neck... there's a mark."
Every eye was on him. This was the moment of truth. The moment he would either honor our bond or shatter it completely.
He took a deep breath, and when he spoke, his face was a carefully constructed canvas of sorrow and weary resignation. It was a performance, and he was playing the lead role.
"Yes," he announced, his voice ringing with false sincerity for the entire crowd to hear. "There is a mark. But it was a lie. A kind lie."
I stared at him, my mind refusing to process the words. Leo, standing beside me, stiffened in confusion.
Ryker began to weave his tale, his voice thick with manufactured pain. "Months ago, my mother was on her deathbed. Her last wish was to see me find my fated mate, to see me complete the bond before she passed."
He gestured toward me, not as his mate, but as an object, an exhibit. "Elara was a caregiver who looked after my mother in her final days. To grant my mother's dying wish, to let her pass in peace, I begged Elara to help me. To stage a fake marking ceremony."
The crowd erupted in murmurs. It was an outrageous story, but it was also... believable. A devoted son, desperate to comfort his dying mother. It was a narrative that pulled at the heartstrings.
I was too stunned to speak. He was using his dead mother. He was defiling her memory to cover his own treachery.
*Liar! Blasphemer!* Lyra howled in my head, a storm of pure rage. *He insults the Goddess and his mother's spirit!*
Ryker pressed on, his eyes, when they finally met mine, filled with a look of profound disappointment. "I paid you well for your help, Elara. I thought we had an agreement. It was just an act for a dying woman. I never imagined you would take that false mark and come here to extort me."
In a few short sentences, he had recast the entire story. He was no longer the villain; he was the tragic, noble son. And I was the greedy, conniving Omega, a lowlife trying to blackmail her way into a better life.
The tide of public opinion turned in an instant. The whispers of scandal became murmurs of disgust, all directed at me.
"So she's just a gold-digger."
"That's sick. Using a dying woman like that."
Seraphina relaxed against him, looking up at Ryker with eyes full of sympathy and adoration. "Oh, you poor thing," her expression seemed to say. "You've suffered so much."
I was shaking, not from fear, but from an anger so pure and hot it threatened to consume me.
"You're lying!" My voice was a ragged tear in the fabric of his deception. "Our bond was sealed under the full moon! Our whole pack witnessed it! The Goddess was our witness!"
Ryker just shook his head with a condescending sigh. "You see?" he said to the crowd. "She's still keeping up the act. I suppose the money I gave her wasn't enough."
He turned to Leo, his tone now firm and authoritative. "Leo, this is a private matter. I need you to remove this trespasser. She has no right to be here."
Leo was caught. He was the King’s man, but Ryker's story, however vile, was seamless on the surface. He had no immediate proof to the contrary.
Believing he had won, Ryker took Seraphina’s hand, ready to lead her into the house, away from the sordid mess he had created. He threw one last look over his shoulder at me, his eyes filled with contempt.
"I'll give you one last chance. Take the money you were given and get the hell out of here."
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9.3
Alyssa Gregory slept with Benton Steele, a recently disgraced and bankrupt heir, just to humiliate him.
She threw a massive check at his bare chest, treating the former prince of Wall Street like a cheap escort.
But Benton didn't take the charity.
Instead, he manipulated her anger, tricking her into signing an ironclad contract that surrendered absolute control of her entire trust fund to him.
When her abusive mother found out she had funded a penniless outcast, she slapped Alyssa across the face.
Her mother froze all her bank accounts, locked her inside her bedroom, and arranged to sell her off to a degenerate politician.
Desperate to escape, Alyssa climbed down her balcony, falling fifteen feet and shattering her ankle on the stones below.
Stripped of her money and freedom, she dragged her broken body to a VIP club just to publicly declare that Benton belonged to her.
She thought she was the boss, playing a rebellious game with a broken man.
But when Benton effortlessly carried her away from the club and locked her inside his rundown apartment, the terrifying calculation in his dark eyes shattered her illusion.
How could a man stripped of his entire empire still radiate such suffocating, violent power?
"You bought me," Benton whispered, his massive frame trapping her against the sofa. "That means I have to take care of you."
Physically trapped and completely broke, Alyssa stared into his consuming eyes, her mind racing to find a way to turn the tables.
9.1
Cora crash-landed her escape pod on a brutal alien planet, only to be immediately hunted by a massive six-eyed beast.
A colossal black wolf dropped from the canopy and crushed the beast's neck to save her. But before she could even breathe, the wolf transformed into a towering, naked primitive man with glowing gold eyes.
He hauled her back to his savage tribe, where she was instantly treated like garbage. The women sneered at her fragile human body, and the men eyed her like fresh meat.
The tribe leader's jealous daughter even handed her a waterskin laced with a terrifying alien breeding drug, hoping to turn Cora into a mindless spectacle of lust in front of the entire settlement.
"Drink. You look like you're dying," the daughter sneered, waiting for Cora to lose her mind.
Cora was terrified and completely out of her depth. She didn't understand why this lethal Alpha warrior looked at her with such dark, consuming possessiveness, or why he was willing to slaughter his own people just to protect her.
How was a stranded human supposed to survive in a terrifying world where every plant, beast, and local wanted her dead?
"BEEP! Critical Warning! Liquid contains high concentrations of alien aphrodisiac herbs," her implanted AI assistant suddenly echoed in her skull.
Looking at the hostile tribe and the fiercely protective Alpha shielding her, Cora silently activated her tech interface. She wasn't just going to be a helpless pet in this savage world.
7.9
Hannah came home under a false identity, ready to keep her head down and avoid trouble. Then a near-drowning opened her eyes, and the family she had wanted gave her nothing but disappointment.
She severed every tie, shed the disguise, and rose in revenge as a miracle doctor, brilliant hacker, and feared underworld ruler. Shock followed her family at every turn.
Her parents regretted everything. Her eldest brother clung desperately to the bond of their shared blood, while her second brother gave up his entire fortune just to earn her forgiveness. Her third brother offered up his own body for a surgery-all to save her.
But Hannah stayed cold and built her empire alone. Only one deadly rival refused to be ignored.
"I was hired to kill you, mister."
"Then take my heart, too."
8.0
Scarlett Hayes thought marrying James Whitmore would finally make her family see her as more than a burden.
Instead, it destroyed her life.
Framed for crimes she didn't commit, betrayed by the people she trusted most, and sentenced to prison while pregnant, Scarlett lost everything in a single night.
Then came the cruelest blow of all.
After giving birth in chains, she was told her baby had died.
The people responsible believed she would spend the rest of her life rotting behind bars.
They were wrong.
Five years later, Scarlett returns.
No longer the discarded daughter of the Hayes family. No longer the broken woman they left behind.
Now she is Commander Scarlett Hayes-a decorated war hero, the unseen force behind a global intelligence empire, and a woman powerful enough to make governments tremble.
She comes back for one reason only: revenge.
Her ex-husband, the stepsister who stole her life, and the family who buried her alive are about to learn exactly what happens when a woman with nothing left to lose takes back everything they stole.
But as Scarlett tears through the secrets of her past, one truth threatens to change everything-
the child she mourned for years may not be dead.
And the mysterious man connected to the night that changed her life has been watching from the shadows all along.
9.3
Are you tired of every hockey romance turning into pure erotica by chapter ten?
We are going back to basics.
This is about the tension. The secrets. The stolen glances across a crowded campus, the brush of a bare hand in a freezing ice rink, and the dangerous boy who would burn the world down just to keep her safe.
Caroline Reed is invisible by choice. As a pre-law student fighting to maintain a flawless 4.50 GPA, she hides in the shadows of the university athletics department. She analyzes sports compliance data just to keep her scholarship intact. Her life is perfectly ordered and perfectly safe.
Leo Kincaid is the untouchable hockey captain. He is ruthless on the ice and completely guarded off it. Everyone thinks he is just another arrogant, golden boy athlete.
But the numbers do not lie. When Caroline reviews the latest game footage, she finds a terrifying statistical pattern. Leo is intentionally taking penalties and throwing specific plays.
When she confronts him in the dead of night at the empty arena, she expects a confession of greed. Instead, she uncovers a dangerous underground betting ring that is blackmailing him. By speaking up, Caroline has just put a massive target on her own back.
Now, the only way Leo can protect her is to pull her directly into his spotlight. He forces her into his daily life under the guise of needing a personal academic manager. Suddenly, the invisible girl is everywhere he is. He watches her constantly. He fiercely dictates who she talks to. And in the quiet, frozen moments between the chaos, Caroline begins to realize that the brutal captain is the safest place she could ever be.
7.1
To save my family from ruin, I remarried my billionaire ex-husband, Jaxon Lowe. He held my late mother' s locket hostage, forcing me back into a gilded cage where I endured his cold contempt and his very public affair. I played the part of the silent, obedient wife he demanded, building a wall of ice around my heart just to survive.
But my obedience didn't protect me. He abandoned me in a torrential downpour to rescue his mistress, Ivory.
Then, he broke his one promise. He let Ivory have my mother's locket pulled from auction, the very reason for my sacrifice, simply because she found it "unlucky."
That final betrayal led me straight into the hands of his business rival, where I was tortured and left for dead.
But I survived.
Four months later, Jaxon found me. He stood before me, tears streaming down his face, holding the now-repaired locket and begging for forgiveness.
I took back what was mine.
"I want a divorce," I said, my voice calm and final. "And I never want to see you again."