He married her mother, yet kept him trapped in his embrace. Eric, the heir to a wealthy family, was forced to marry the maid Fiona, but in reality, he fell in love at first sight with Fiona's son Samuel. Within the wealthy household, the two engaged in one secret tug-of-war after another.
My Alpha, Lucas Belville, is extremely possessive. We've been mates for seven years, and he tells me the same thing all the time. "You're a treasure that the Moon Goddess bestowed upon me. I want to hide you away if I can. I don't want anyone else to see you." It's why he never brings me to any pack meetings and forbids me from appearing in his social circle. In the past, I believe that this is Lucas' way of expressing his love for me. But everything changes when I accidentally stumble across his secretive, alternate account one day. Lucas has uploaded over 600 posts over the course of three years. Another she-wolf, Maria Anderson, is featured in every single post. They walk along the snowy plains in the north, exchange vows in the temple of the Moon Goddess, and indulge in wine and merriment during pack festivals. Although I'm Lucas' mate, I've never appeared in any of his photos. Lucas' latest post is an intimate photo of him and Maria. In the photo, he's leaning his head down and kissing her. Maria is wearing a moonstone necklace that identifies her as the Luna of the pack. The caption reads, "To love someone is to let the entire world know that she belongs to me." Excruciating pain lances through my chest. My wolf whines in despair. It turns out that Lucas isn't hiding me away because he's scared of losing me. It's just that he has never once considered acknowledging my existence. I close the page, wipe my tears, and book a plane ticket to the south. Since Lucas is unwilling to announce me as his mate, it's up to me to tell everyone that I no longer belong to him.
On my wedding day, I slept for six hours inside my own dressing room. By the time I reached the DeLuca family chapel in the Hudson Valley, Matteo had already completed the entire ceremony with his childhood friend, Sofia Rinaldi, the daughter of one of the DeLucas’ oldest allied families. She wore the gown I had spent six months designing and the pearl tiara passed down through generations of DeLuca women. Allies from New York, Chicago, and Sicily had witnessed everything. No one had saved a place for the real bride. Matteo looked at my pale face and explained calmly. “Sofia put the sedative in your tea. She only wanted one wedding. The dose was small, so there is no reason to make this into something bigger.” Everyone waited for me to cause a scene. I only let out a quiet sigh and looked at Matteo with disappointment. My family had given me one final chance to marry for love. Now that the wedding had failed, I had to return to Sicily, obey their decision, and inherit the family.
She Erased Her Name From the Wolf Clan After Discovering Her Mate's Betrayal
For five years, Seraphina sacrificed everything for Alaric.
She turned her back on her family, abandoned her human identity, and stood beside him as the woman behind the most powerful Alpha in the wolf clan.
On their fifth anniversary, she prepared to give him the happiest news of his life—
She was carrying his child.
But before she could tell him, she overheard a conversation that shattered her heart.
Alaric was secretly planning to take the child of his childhood sweetheart, Elise, and make Seraphina raise it as her own.
The man she loved wanted her to become a mother to another woman's child.
What Alaric and his followers didn't know was that Seraphina understood every word.
They thought she couldn't speak the ancient wolf language.
They never realized the woman they underestimated had mastered it long ago.
She heard their entire plan.
And in that moment, her love died.
With a broken heart, Seraphina activated the Moon Goddess Contract.
She erased every trace of herself from the wolf clan.
She severed her bond with Alaric.
She removed the child she carried and cut off every connection to the life she once fought for.
Then she returned to her human family and reclaimed the business empire she had abandoned.
The woman who once stood behind Alaric was gone.
Now, she was the queen of her own world.
When the truth was finally exposed, Alaric discovered that everything he believed he controlled had already slipped away.
Elise's deception was revealed.
Alaric banished the woman who had ruined his bond with Seraphina.
But it was too late.
The mate he once took for granted had disappeared forever.
Alaric used every resource he had to search for Seraphina across the world, desperate to bring her back.
Yet the price of losing her was everything.
His power was stripped away.
His position was taken from him.
And for the rest of his immortal life, he was trapped alone in his mansion, drowning in endle
After thirteen years of being abducted, Selena finally comes home. But her parents have given all their love to their adopted daughter Ivy. She struggles desperately to fit into the family, yet she is always the daughter no one trusts. She has protected her family in secret countless times, yet nobody ever finds out. She thought that if she was good enough, her parents would finally see her. That is, until she disappears completely from this home. No one reports her missing. No one goes looking for her. A long‑forgotten old case and an unidentifiable female corpse are dragging the buried truth back to this family. And the daughter who was never believed may be the only one who has known everything all along.
My best friend, Mandy Cooper, and my boyfriend, Logan Bennett, had been at each other's throats since freshman year of college. Years ago, a careless mistake of Mandy’s indirectly led to the death of Logan’s best friend. Ever since that day, Logan made it his life's mission to wreck every ounce of happiness she ever tried to build. The day he crashed her third attempt at a wedding, I had just gotten back from studying abroad. Right in the middle of the chaos and shouting, Logan’s eyes locked onto mine from across the crowded room. It was love at first sight. Now, five years into our relationship, he was still obsessively scheming to ruin Mandy’s ninth wedding. I’ve begged him to drop it a million times, but he always shuts me down with the same stone-cold answer—"She doesn't deserve to be happy." Mandy came to my place in tears, begging for help. She planned to sneak off and throw a low-key wedding out of the country, scheduling it for the exact day Logan was supposed to fly back from his business trip. She needed me to keep tabs on him at home. "Maya, please. This guy is a total catch. He's a college guy, hot enough to be an actor, and I’m going to marry him. You have to help me keep Logan off my back." I promised her I would. To stall Logan, I blew up his phone asking when his flight was landing, but I didn't get a single reply. Then I opened Instagram and scrolled past a photo from Mandy's wedding. Standing right beside her, caught in a grainy side-profile shot, was Logan. The truth hit me like a physical punch. Five years of love, and every second of it was a sick joke. Just as my chest tightened with a numb, hollow ache, the doorbell rang. I opened the door to find a ridiculously handsome guy standing on my doorstep, dressed in a sharp tuxedo. "Hey," he said, offering a casual smile, "I’m the rent-a-groom Ms. Cooper hired. I'm here for the gig." I stared at him, and suddenly, a quiet laugh bubbled up in my chest. If Logan could turn around and tie the knot with
At ten years old, Elsie suddenly began seeing red lines connecting the tops of men and women’s heads. They weren’t symbols of destined love—they only appeared when two people had slept together. She witnessed her father’s affair with her own eyes while her mother endured it in silence for years. From then on, Elsie chose her partners based on one thing alone: whether their heads were clean.Seven years later, she chose Lucas, whose head was completely blank. Their wedding was set for the next day.But then Elsie saw a red line stretching straight from Tessa’s head to her fiancé’s—and just the night before, when he drove Elsie home, his head had still been clean.Elsie called off the wedding.Lucas’s family surrounded her home, forcing her to put on the wedding dress and threatening her with breach-of-contract penalties and public humiliation. Dressed in black, Elsie walked into the banquet hall, played the surveillance footage for everyone to see, and used the red lines to expose the long-buried secrets of the entire family.The wedding became a courtroom.