Most people say rejection is the worst thing that could happen to a person, especially when it involves your fated mate. You become a shell of person you once were. Alpha Xavier and I have known each other since we were kids, we were always there for each and slowly I fell in love with my best friend. I was there when he told me he loved my twin sister I stood by and let him be happy, until that one fateful night when we found out we were mates and he rejected me and choose my twin. From that day forward nothing was the same. I watched them be happy together while I was slowly breaking and then I finally choose myself and left without a word to anyone. Eight years later the unthinkable happened. I am found and I am required to return to my pack because my twin sister died, Alpha Xavier chosen mate.

Keegan James was just a normal woman living a normal life at the age of 23. She owned her own restaurants. She owned her own home and car. She was her own boss. She was always nice to people even when they didn't deserve it. She learned to mind her own business and always stayed out of the way. That is how she's been so successful at such a young age. Everything was good for her, no man, no drama, and definitely no boss. Her life was turned upside down one night as she locked up her restaurant and took the walk to her car on a mission to get home.

My hand was clutching impatiently at the hem of your skirt. Your aroma is taunting. Toasted sugar and lavender dancing around like mist... There is a twitch in my lips, and I am too excited to be bothered with shielding it from you as you are just a breath away. We are always so close with too many inches between us. Yet, still just a breath away. I want to hold you and savor you completely. Your deep brown eyes...Whole and fluttering slowly. Dazed and tenderly innocent. A tongue pokes out to gloss your rounded lips .I want to savor it. I want your mouth never to sever from mine. Never. Never... --- Veronica wanted nothing but to bloom. Jacob wanted nothing but her. Soft and rabid. Bitter desiring sweet. --- WARNINGS *LOTS OF VIOLENCE *OBSESSION *CHILD ABUSE

"Why are you looking at me like that?" His stare was so intense I was beginning to feel a bit uncomfortable, but in a good way. "Like what?" He asked. "Like you want to eat me?" Taking a sip of his drink, he broke eye contact for a split second before resuming. I could feel myself getting slightly turned on, so I shifted a little in my seat to adjust myself, hoping to make it go away. He smirked, and his eyes now reaped of lust. He knew. "Because I do." "B-but, you just did," I stuttered. "I want more." Shit. ----- Desperate for a vacation, Sadé and her girls take trip to Italy for a few months. On a night out, they run into Dominique Amaro, one of Italy's finest and most dangerous mafia kings. Wanting to make this vacation the best they've ever had, the girls are eager for fun and are down for just about anything . But what they didn't know, is that one night out would change their lives forever.