"Actually I do. I'm working", I said with no emotion at all. They didn't deserve it. They don't get to know how I have felt through the years without them, I'm happy here. "Nope, your coming out to dinner away from this dump with your brothers and father", He said whilst looking around in discust. I rolled my eyes at him which he looked pretty shocked at. "Look Stone, Im not that 6 year old you can just boss around and fuck over anymore, I can take care of myself, Ive been doing that for my whole life so far, so why not the rest, so either order something or get the fuck out", I said to him getting faster and faster as I spoke. The boys gasped when I swore at Stone. He, on the other hand, looked furious. Matilda is 16 years old, with 5 older brother, 5 terrifying older brothers in who she hates with a passion. They left her to deal with their father wrath, to live their own lives far away. She now lives alone, in a dangerous and dirty neighbourhood, but she doesn't care, as long as she is far away from those she is suppose to call family. But when they all turn up for Christmas, hoping for happy times and warm hugs, she is instilled with fear and pure anger. Will she accept them, or will they stop trying? She couldn't care less, she was always the forgotten child. #1 - abuse #1 - brothers #2 - family #1 - siblings #1 - forgotten #1 - independent #1 - only daughter #1 - alone #1 - Brother

They said she died peacefully. That's what they always say, don't they? When someone slips away in a hospital bed - when the machines stop beeping, and the room goes quiet except for the sigh of grief no one dares to release. Peaceful. Like death is ever kind. I was five. Too young to understand why my mother wasn't waking up. Too small to make sense of the nurses whispering in the hallway or the way they looked at me, like I was already a problem they didn't know how to solve. Her name was Rebecca. She was twenty-five. And her blood betrayed her. They said it was cancer. Aggressive. Silent. A thief in the bloodstream. By the time they caught it, it had already taken everything. I was all she had. And when she left, I had no one. No father. No family. Just a name I couldn't pronounce, and a world I didn't belong to. The system chewed me up und spat me out. Foster homes. Group homes. Back and forth like a package No one ordered. Smiles that didn't last. Promises that broke before they were even spoken. Every time someone tried to "fix" me, I'd break first, make sure they knew I was no one's charity case. No one's second chance. Eventually they stopped trying. I got older. Quieter. I stopped waiting to be rescued and started fighting instead. Literally. Underground rings don't ask for backstories. Just fists. Blood. And that, at least, I could give them. Then one night, seventeen years into this messy life, someone knocked on my door. A stranger. Two of them, actually. His name was marcello Mariano a man claiming to be my father, a man I'd only ever heard of in headlines. CEO. Businessman. Untouchable. I knew his face from magazines. I knew his name from rumors. But I didn't know why he'd come for me. Or what kind of danger was following him. All I knew was that everything I thought I knew about my life... Was a lie. And now the weight I never asked for is trying to pull me under. But I won't drown. Not again.

The Moons and the Royals, the two most famous spy agencies, have been rivals for a long time. What happens when nearly all the criminals escape from both agencies? What will happen then? Will they have provide help for each other? Read along and watch how both agencies face their challenges together and watch how one couple brings peace to the world. Jelsa and other ships.

My name is Alex Cruz, I'm a omega, so I'm just a punching bag to my pack. But Emma, Queen of werewolves Sam, queen of dragons Winter, queen of vampires Taylor, queen of weretigers And Eli, queen of demons Are my mates.

*previously titled touched* Some people are more unlucky than others, Evelyn knows this more than most, after being kidnapped from her house she finds herself at the mercy of creatures she thought children's stories. When a mysterious lady saves her from an awful fate, she is thrown into a world that has tipped on its head and demands answers for the connections she harbours. Can she be trusted? And can they change? (mature content) *massive plot overhaul beginning 1 June 2025*

Half god and half wolf, I have spent my life training for the moment I will come face to face with my parent's killer. Meeting my mate is something that never crossed my mind when I moved again. But there is a new threat rising, something I never expected that will change everything. When I least expect it, I will lose everything, the ones I love, the people I have grown close to and I will lose myself.......

The Empress of the East was known to be cruel, heartless, and just pure evil woman. She'll kill anyone over the smallest mistake and go to war if you annoy her. She was the most feared and dangerous woman in history that had everything a man could want plus more. But, a little fox from a neighboring Kingdom caught her eye and now this Empress will stop at nothing to have that little fox as hers. Until a ring is on her finger. No matter what.

Ava Sinclair is a fierce attorney and single mother doing everything she can to balance courtroom battles with bedtime stories for her seven-year-old daughter, Lila. Her life is a delicate arrangement of schedules and sacrifice-until a chance encounter shakes everything loose. Enter Rowan Vale, a brilliant, enigmatic billionaire tech mogul hiding a vulnerable heart behind sharp edges and closed doors. When Rowan walks into Ava's life offering legal representation for a high-profile case, the chemistry is instant-yet complicated. And then there's Celeste Moreno, a free-spirited jeweler with golden hands, a silver tongue, and a soul that sees beauty in everything-even broken people. When fate ties all three women together, desire flares, emotions tangle, and the rules of love begin to change. But can three hearts find harmony in a world built for two? "Three Stones Unturned" is a sweeping tale of chosen family, emotional healing, and an unapologetic, tender polyamorous love that defies expectations-and remakes everything it touches.

Book 1 of the Painted Lies duet lost /lɒst/ adjective; unable to find one's way or not knowing one's whereabouts Liliana and her twin - Isabella - were both kidnapped from their family ( the Italian mafia ) at 3 years old by the Russian mafia as revenge and put into foster care in Spain. Their family never found them and eventually gave up looking. Liliana and her twin couldn't be more different. Liliana is cold, distant. everyone and everything knows not to mess with her, her one weakness? Her twin sister Isabella is the most vulnerable, bubbly person you could imagine and the only one that Liliana would drop anything and everything for although isabella doesn't know it. They were put into foster care at 3 years old and had been lucky enough to have been kept together in the system. But one day Liliana disappeared for 2years when she was 12 and came back completely different. Cold. Ruthless. Dangerous. And the most feared assassin in the underworld, but 'diabla' identity is kept secret from everyone except for her allies in other mafias and her best friends. But no secret can last forever can it? Not unless you take it to the grave.

After two years Reese had to went back to her hometown and start all over again at her old school in the middle of the year with secrets underneath her sleeves. Not only she came back for a reason, she also had to face Jace, her twin brother girl bestfriend--the girl who turned her world and sexuality upside down with all of her childhood friends hating her guts.