The Sacrifices We Make
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  • Reads 10,121
  • Votes 393
  • 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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EVEN DEATH DIES

9 parts Complete

EVEN DEATH DIES, women's thriller in a dystopia. Controlling all the minds makes Dax the perfect easy prey. She knows it and doesn't let anyone get too close to her family. One night, her twins are strangely blasted; Telio resurrected but needs a new heart. The army can supply this artificial implant but its colonel wants to know her secrets and control them. Because of dangerously quantum apps, a pandemic of fatal neurodegenerative diseases had killed almost all the population. People are now forced to wear a quantum membrane placed directly on the brain to care for it, the topcortex. This membrane allows government to exploit them and reduce them to their work, treated as nothing more than a set of arms. Dax is in charge of the configuration of the topcortex. The army produces the implants which are its main source of income. Dax is very brave and selfless. She tries to reduce the award procedure to people to free them. If she succeeds, this can annihilate the army. Its chief Colonel Monarc needs to neutralize Dax. To reach his objective, Monarc destroys experimental results, aspirates thoughts of the ruling class with his topcortex, kills a famous astronaut and destroys his heart given to replace Telio's. Monarc wants to impose on Dax an artificial heart for Telio. By controlling the cardiac implant of Telio, Monarc will dominate Dax. Dax changes the rules of the game and will pay the ultimate sacrifice even if she unveils her secret. EVEN DEATH DIES is a thriller that unfolds in Resurgence, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America.