He lit his cigarette, I lit nothing. He drank alcohol, I drank water. He smirked, I smiled. He didn't love me, I didn't love him. He and I together wouldn't last a day. And then the game started... He said he found me intriguing, unique, and interesting because I didn't swoon over him. "You and me Grey, let's play a game. We'll date and in three months time I promise you will fall for me. When you fall in love with me between that time span, I win. If in any way you were to win I'll give up all the alcohol, cigarettes, and player ways." It was a game I wasn't willing to lose, but all games had accidents and consequences. It takes a broken heart to know how to break a heart.

While in the E.R. at Mercy Hospital, Noah meets a strange boy by the name of Tyson, who seems to be a walking contradiction. On the outside he seems cold and distant, yet when he sees Noah in the waiting room with her hand bleeding, he comes over to help her and stays by her side the whole time. When they part that night, both think they'll never see each other again. But, when Noah goes back to school after summer break she finds out that Tyson is the new student. And more surprising still, he acts like he's never seen her before and treats her coldy. Confused, Noah tries to figure out what his deal is, and it does't help that they've been paired together for a class assignment that will take the whole year to complete. ((INITIAL DRAFT))

Only fifteen years old, Alina discovers her mate... the one destined to love her, protect her-her forever. The werewolf prince, Alessandros. To her, he is everything. To him... she is a secret. Hidden in the shadows, their relationship burns with forbidden passion. He feeds her promises-love, loyalty, the sacred mating bond-and she believes him. She gives him her heart, her trust... her soul. But some truths are meant to destroy you. Because while he holds Alina in the dark... he stands proudly in the light beside her stepsister, Clarynn. And he was never going to choose her. The betrayal doesn't come from just him. When Alina finally confesses her heart to someone she believed would love her unconditionally, that trust is shattered in the most brutal way. Lies unravel. Blood ties twist into something unrecognizable. And suddenly, her own family becomes her greatest enemy. She is cast out. Sent away. Forgotten. Or so they think. Instead of safety, Alina is thrown into a nightmare-the most ruthless and deadly warrior school for "broken" wolves... a place designed to crush the weak and erase the unwanted. The one who sends her there does it with a single hope: That she will never return. But pain does not break Alina. It awakens something darker. Because fate is not finished with her yet. And when she comes back... she won't be the same girl they destroyed. She'll be something far more dangerous. And this time-she won't beg for love. She'll make them fear her.

I froze; the guard yelled, telling me to get a move on. The unearthly screeching sent all of us into shock, soon turning into fear. Some cried the moment they reached the door. I didn't know what was coming, but it'd be painful. “Next!” I was two kids away from the cold metal plated door. I closed my eyes, hearing a scream from behind the door. The girl in front of me started to cry. “Shut up!” A guard yelled, slapping her cheek. My eyes widened and I forced myself to swallow tears that threatened to fall. “Next!” My sore bare feet scraped across the dark tiled floor as I made my way forward while the next child went in. I wouldn't survive a slap to the cheek, no matter how strong I looked. “Next!” The girl in front of me quivered and shook, her fear obvious. I cringed away from the door as a laugh echoed in the next room. “Stand up straight!” The guard yelled at me. I didn't dare look him in the eyes, knowing I'd be hit like the last child that stared at him. “Next!” My skin crawled as the door opened...