(On hold as I want to concentrate on other stories... Sorry)
“Ruby Black, I hereby reject you as my other half, my wolf’s half and...”
He stared into my eyes, and smirked, ‘please don’t, please don’t, please don’t’ I chanted in my head again and again, my wolf howled; a howl of longing, love and desperation.
“...As my mate”
Souring pain erupted in my chest, like a red-hot poker was stabbing me in my heart over and over...
“Please Nate, please help me! Please! Please, please, please, help me...” My voice trailed off, he smirked one more time before he shook his head.
“No”
Ruby Black is the school's 'slut', not be choice, but by trying to forget. With having an abusive father, his 'friends' who sexually abuse her, and a mother who abandoned her, Ruby didn't have the best start to life.
Sleeping around made her temporarly made her mind clear thoughts of her father, by having all the problems and hassle of being paid to be someone's girlfriend helped her head fill up and block out the home she's forced to live in. Ruby could be called a 'loner', not frinds to rely on; no girl wants to be freinds with a slut, no boy she has come across has not tried to use her. Broken, battered, hurt, rejected, a slut, a loner, and a liar is what she is.
Having a mate would only add to the pain... And it did.
Grief-stricken over the death of the boss who was like a father to her, Olivia Bailey is left to deal with the aftermath--the arrival of his dashing but estranged son, Pierce Alexander. But she can't stand him and he doesn't trust her. Will working for the new CEO remain to be an impossible task?
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Olivia Bailey might be plain and boring, but she's content with her current lifestyle, working for the kind but lonely old man who owns Alexander Corporation. But his untimely death flips her simple life upside down. Now, she must deal with his estranged son, the heir to his business empire, together with the growing feelings building up between them. Will Olive manage to bear the pressure and issues cropping up along the way--or is this too much to ask?
Disclaimer: This story won The Wattys 2014 People's Choice Award.
Cover Design by Ashley Marie Bandy