𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 | 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐝 | 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧 | 𝐀𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦 The bond was never meant to be a choice. Reena Sterling knew exactly who Cassian Thorne was long before anyone called him alpha. She grew up in his territory as much as her own, running the same borders, learning the same rules, trusting the same people. Trusting him. Until life pulled them apart, and whatever they were to each other stopped having a name. The alliance between their packs makes the bond inevitable. Clean. Efficient. A decision made above them, enforced through them. Neither of them argues. Cassian accepts it the way he accepts everything, without hesitation, without explanation. He doesn't offer reassurance. Doesn't pretend this is anything other than what it is. A claim. A consolidation of power. But he does not move closer than he can afford to regret. He keeps distance the way he once used proximity, with control. With intent. Like space is the only thing that prevents consequence from becoming permanent. Every interaction is measured. Brief. Exact. Until it isn't. A grip that tightens before he registers it. Words that cut deeper than he planned. A coldness that lands harder than it should and lingers. It never looks like much from the outside. But he notices. Always a second too late. He doesn't apologize. Doesn't explain. Just correcting the distance between cause and outcome. As if nothing irreversible has already happened. Reena gives him nothing. No reaction. No correction. That is not absence. It is control. Because being seen too clearly has never made people stay. What remains between them is not ease, not distance. It is containment. Everything that was never finished. Never named. Never safe enough to hold without breaking something in the process. Only awareness. And restraint held so tightly

Beth Corday never expected that accidentally stealing from crime boss Rob B. Illion would land her in a dangerously intimate contract with him. With her life on the line, can she make him fall in love with her? Season 1 of How to Rob a Billionaire Series. *** At just twenty-three years old, Beth Corday has mastered the art of thievery to pay the debts her mom left behind. Once she completes her biggest mission yet, by stealing from the mysterious billionaire, Rob B. Illion, she's thrilled by the forty million dollars she acquires...Until she realizes Mr B. Illion has no problem with killing for revenge. Now trapped in the deadly world of this ruthless crime boss, Beth silently vows to make him regret the day he crossed her path. Rob B. Illion doesn't think twice about the young woman who stumbled into his arms, until he discovers his forty-million-dollar watch is gone. When Rob proposes a deal to Beth to work for him in exchange for her life, he realizes she's his best shot at taking down his rivals. When he moves Beth under his roof, he also discovers she's incredibly smart, sly, and impossible to trust... And now she's all he can think about. As their dangerous game unfolds, they find themselves drawn to each other in ways they never expected. But can Beth steal Rob's heart before it's too late?

Raven was ecstatic. Life could not get any better than it already was when she and her friends took off for the beach after graduation. They planned to spend the summer at the beach before returning home to attend college in the fall. That was the plan.....until the unthinkable happens and it leaves Raven forever broken. Several months later her friends cousin, Will Martin, sets his eyes on her for the very first time. Without a doubt in his mind, he knows that she is his mate and will do anything to claim her rightfully so. Can Will somehow break through to Raven, put back together her shattered heart and then teach her to love again?

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