"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?

BLOOD MAKES YOU RELATED BUT LOYALTY MAKES YOU FAMILY!

LOVE ALONE IS NEVER ENOUGH.

Sophia Marino lived with her aunt in America since she was 7, her mom died when she was still a baby and she would visit her family during holiday. Now twenty four working a boring office job she went clubbing one night to relax and get laid. She got laid, but she also got pregnant by one of the most ruthless men out there, Russian mafia leader Vasily Petrov. She was his the moment he saw her goofing around on the dance floor and brought her to his hotel room, the pregnancy part was just more motivation to get her, not that he would have backed down or needed extra motivation to have her. Like every other mafia man, he got what he wanted no matter what he had to do *Warning - violence, swearing, mature I guess*

When life finally served her all that she longed for since she was young, it also took an unexpected turn where she found herself living 2 lives, one of them being awfully dangerous and draining all her strength...

They say "ubuhle bendoda izinkomo zakhe" ( a real man is judged by the size of his pockets) well I disagree cause I've seen women married to rich men living miserable lives, I've seen slay queens dating rich guys who treated like them like shit and they stayed because of money so to me even if you work a 9 to 5 job and you can't afford to buy me a Brazilian and Peruvian hair, even if you can't afford to take me to the most expensive restaurant or to Dubai or even Durban or Cape Town I'll still love you..... as long as I don't sleep hungry and you make me happy and try by all means to cater for me and you respect, love and you are honest and faithful to me then I'll treat you like a king. So what im trying to say is there are still ladies out there who aren't moved by material things and once you have her make sure you never lose her cause you'll watch from a distance as another man makes her happy while you are married to a gold digger....remember glitter is not gold and the grass is not always green on the other side! Anyway walk with me on this journey as I take you through the challenges a lady called Marang and her best friend Dineo face as they tackle life's challenges and finding true love.

when the heart speaks even God himself listens!