"Stop. Stop, please." I sob as the whip comes down on my back once more. "Shut up yo-" my tormentor's words are cut off by a ferocious growl. I sense another masculine figure in the dark room, but can't make out a word he's shouting. The burning and searing pain that I'm experiencing is just too much. A sickening snap is heard and something drops onto the cold, stone flooring. The chains around my wrists and ankles are broken along with the tight metal collar around my neck. "Mate." my rescuer growls, gently cradling me in his arms. ********************* Charlotte Beck has been tortured and abused by the Red Stone pack ever since she turned eight. She doesn't know why they hate her or how she ended up a lower rank than the Omegas; no one even bothered to label her as a slave. She has never known the true meaning of love or how it felt like, all Charlotte knows is that her pack surely doesn't feel that way about her. Finding a mate was a dream that was thrown out the window long ago; all of the verbal abuse led her to believe that she didn't deserve one. It's not until she attempts to escape again that she realizes that she has a chance of living a better life, one where abuse isn't an everyday thing. Xander Reynolds, Alpha of the Lunar Shadow pack, finds her when she's taken to his cells as a trespassing prisoner. Known as the strongest Alpha in the continent, he does everything he can to protect his mate. The only problem is that she's too emotionally scarred to allow him to. His dark and violent reputation is the only thing that Charlotte knows about him. The memories of their childhood together beaten out of her mind. Traumatized and high on fear, she struggles to let down her walls. Her real home is with a man who she cannot remember and a brother who she wishes she remembered. Can Xander get his mate to love him? Or will Charlotte let her past keep them apart?

As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams? ***** Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Laurel Graham isn't your average teenager, well at least not in her book. Her mom is dead and her dad's in jail so that leaves none other than her 5 older brothers as her legal guardians. With a troubled past, old friends, new boys, and being watched non-stop by five psycho's, can Laurel manage to make it through high school living a normal life? *I wrote this in middle school and its TRASh but I think there's some potential to the story sooooo I'm going to try and attempt to rewrite a lot of it and hopefully make it not soo cringe anymore :)*

a compilation of quotes

My quotable quotes are quotable! So I`ll put notable notes with my quotable quotes to make my notes quotable! A book of inspirational quotes!

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Multibillion dollar Tyver Enterprises Ltd is one of the most recognized and celebrated makeup brands of today. However, power, money and success always come with a price. Kristen has various part time jobs in order to help her mother pay her father's gambling debts which marked the end of his life. Her mother, Carolina, is a full time maid working at the Tyver's family house, and knows more than what her kindness and motherly love seems to cover. The story develops as secrets from her past begin to touch surface, and discovers many of them are linked to the grandson of her mother's boss. He is the leader of the 48th Gang who made their name winning illegal motorcycle races. Nevertheless, he is the legitimate heir of Tyvert Enterprise.