The Sacrifices We Make
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  • Parts 12
  • Time 1h 32m
Ongoing, First published Jun 12, 2014
Mona was always looked over, disregarded. She was invisible. This was perfectly fine by her; she had learned to live with it. It was easier accepting her invisibility rather than expecting people to change only to be disappointment. Living alone was far better than living with constant disappointment. She was alone in life but not lonely that was the important part. She felt lonelier in a room full of people rather than when she actually was alone. She relished in being alone. She thought if there’s no one in my life that means there’s no one who can look past me and make me feel invisible more than I need to. It was her way and it suited her perfectly fine.

 Mona realises that she wasn’t always looked over like she thought when her brother embezzles money from the biggest law firm in New York and is caught. The owner and managing director Alexander Burke draws up a settlement agreement that involves Mona coming to work for him. Mona always thought she wasn’t a woman who men stopped to stare at but she was she was just too busy being invisible to actually notice. It’s clear from day one Both Mona and Alexander are interested in more than working relationship. Will they let their attraction get the better of them or will they stay strictly professional? Will Mona be invisible at her new firm or has Alexander’s unorthodox methods of recruitment gotten her unwanted attention?
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Wanted For Pleasure

85 parts Complete Mature

Morgan Ann Bennett never lived life for herself. She always put her older sister, Callie, first. Loving fast and loose, Morgan always worried about her sister. Finally, though, Callie settled down. Except months later, when she told her boyfriend of three months she was pregnant, he went to the store... and never returned. Callie, devastated by her many failed relationships, started hating herself. She gave birth to her daughter Quinn, but still felt she lost everything. With Callie haven lost her job, Morgan made it her personal mission to give Quinn a better lifestyle - a healthy one. Only, her overbearing boyfriend would only allow her to work at his uncle's diner so she had no other skills. But one day, a mysterious rich man online offers to change her life. Seeing this as an easy way out, Morgan moves her niece and Callie out to Colorado. There, she meets Malcolm Jameson. Away on business often, Malcom appoints his nephew Chris Vaughn to watch his property. Chris, knowing Malcom's true ways, waves Morgan off as another golddigger. Constant, childish bickering ensues until Morgan and Chris can no longer keep down their wild attraction to each other. Malcom, a man of power and great conviction, had only two requests. When Chris goes against them, Morgan finds herself between a rock and a hard place. Does she ignore her aching desire for Chris and stay with the rich Malcom Jameson who is helping her sustain the lifestyle her sister and niece deserve? Or finally live for herself and follow her heart, braving a spontaneous romance with Chris who has a tumultuous past himself? Malcom always gets what he wants and won't let go that easy. Wanted For Pleasure (2022) "what a plot twist you were" Covers by @-belllawrites ❤️