Tear-stained cheeks, my mascara was now an ugly smudge after being ruined with all the crying I had been doing for the past hour. I could not recognize myself as I looked through the mirror. The more I stared at myself the more the tears. I could hear them in the next room. Their moans enraged me and made me feel like throwing up. I retched but nothing came out. Disgust is what I felt. My life had turned out to be a chaotic mess and I wondered what I had done to deserve all that. I was a good person or so I believed. I smiled through the pain and thought to myself that everything was going to be okay. I did not believe that myself but I had to tell myself to keep going or I would be stuck in a loop with my past trying to set myself free...
Tear-stained cheeks, my mascara was now an ugly smudge after being ruined with all the crying I had been doing for the past hour. I could not recognize myself as I looked through the mirror. The more I stared at myself the more the tears kept coming. I could hear them in the next room. Their moans enraged me and made me feel like throwing up. I retched but nothing came out.
Disgust is what I felt.
How foolish was I to believe both of them? I felt like a complete fool. I had known the truth but now the difference was that it had left my heart shattered and at that moment I thought to myself maybe sometimes the truth does not matter if it will end up hurting someone ...
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Moving states had never been in my plans. I always wanted to stay in my hometown forever but... some circumstances were unavoidable.
Maybe I could forget everything by changing my routines and my daily views, but that sounded like a lie even in my head.
Everyone needed a fresh start once in life... Especially when things never go your way. In my case, things went pretty sour and I needed to get out or else I would drown in the past. It was like I was fighting my past self like I was looking deep into a well. If I don't look away, I will be swept by the darkness of the abyss.
I knew they all wanted me gone; my mother and my brother, the two I never wanted to feel that way about me. My mother always says there is always a perfect time for everything; when I was invited to California, it was as if the perfect opportunity has presented itself in front of me to escape my life and be someone else. I want to believe I was ready to live it.
Going through my daily routine I took a quick shower and now what I despised I had to look through my mess of clothes to get dressed. I choose some sweatpants a hoodie, and my white converse. If you already guessed I am a boring person. I lived alone and checked my clock if I didn't hurry up I'll be late and I don't want to be in detention later I've got work to do.
I grab my keys and go towards my car. In less than fifteen minutes am in the school parking lot. I study at the University of California majoring in biology science,pppttff genius right I know what you're thinking well that's the case but according to the people I meet daily in the hallways, I sometimes think am in the wrong place they don't look like they are supposed to be here or am the one in the wrong place. I grab my satchel bag from the backseat ready to start my day. As I lock my car I hear the well sweet annoying voice of my deskmate.
"Heyyy Ella", Soffie screams
"hey and can you please lower your voice you'll give me a headache" I retorted back at her
"Don't be mean I know you like me you just pretending not ", she said I don't like her I just enjoy her company. I know am being a bad"friend" but I have had enough disappointments in my life from friends and am tired of all the friend's crap. I just continue walking ignoring Soffie but I can hear her rumbling about how my heart is cold.
Cold huh I think I a mentally ill or something I have weird conversations in my head okay well am weird that explains it then.
I can't hear what Soffie is saying beside me because am lost in my thoughts I have like fifteen minutes before my class starts. Looking back at how my life was before I came to California I just have some rules
1. Don't trust anyone
2. Reread the first rule
It's simple but I have to repeat it so you know how much I don't fuck with nobody.
My life is simply no family no friends just me alone. I mean it saves you from all the pain of having high expectations of your friends when you don't know their real intentions. I don't have time to get to know someone so that I can figure out their real motive in my life.
I know not everyone is the same but please I am drained I don't have the energy in me anymore.
"Are you even listening to me Ella God I have been talking to you and weren't even listening to me, you know what just live like people don't exist"scoffs Soffie as she walks down the hallway and leaves me standing there?
I feel bad for some seconds and then I remember what I told myself trust nobody. I don't have the time of being a weakling because I made the only person who wants to be friends with me feel bad.
To survive, you have to hide your emotions because if you don't people will read you like a book, and destroying you will be like a piece of cake.
Cake... how did I forget to grab breakfast on my way here I guess I'll have to go on with an empty stomach.
Looking down at my watch I have like two minutes before my lecture starts I rush down the hallway as I enter the lecture room
I spot Soffie at her usual place I guess I just have to tell her sorry because I low-key kinda like her. She looks up when she sees me "took your time to get here huh," she says. Now that's my girl " am sorry I was just lost in thoughts earlier I didn't mean to ignore you" I say apologetically. "It's fine it's nothing new don't sweat it," she says. I officially feel bad I mean she is trying to be my friend and am pushing her away. I know the feeling too well I know how it feels like to try so much to be someone's friend and they ignore you they just live their life like you don't exist. I push my thoughts away and look unaffected by her comment.
"Well if you say so", I tell her as I see the lecturer enter the lecture room. As I hear the lecturer start talking okay well not talking doing his thing I start drifting back to my thoughts. Everyone has a reason why they don't like associating with people trying to pry into your past. I mean I know friends have to know things about each other and stuff like that but my past is haunted.
The more I know people and tell them about it I think they'll change their perspective on me not that I care but I choose to keep it to myself I don't want their pity.
Pity from people will make you look like a weak person and I don't want to be weak. Talking about some things that open wounds I know, not all wounds heal but being in your past it has to stay there.
I moved here to stay afresh. I used to stay at Gualdahara my past belongs there not here this is a new life and so Good help me if anyone tries to cross my path I'll fucking destroy them. Everything I went through made me realize you will always be on your own and don't rely on anyone. Life is just full of disappointments and those break you real fast. Those disappointments taught me the hard way they made me this cold.
At twenty years old she had thought that now her life had just begun. Her childhood had been everything but good. It could have been worse but she couldn't complain about it. What was she supposed to do? The moment her life began other things arose and she had no clue whatsoever on what to believe. Her life had been a lie all along and no matter how much she tried to make sense of who she was she couldn't. She was lost at sea with all the lies she had been told. She did not know who to believe anymore. She never knew that she had as much power as she had or that people were going to see her as a threat. All she over wanted was to be somewhere that she belonged but the more that she knew people the more she realized that she did not belong anywhere. Could she blame them for hating her though? She did not choose to be who she was and there was nothing she could do about it. As she turned into her wolf form she saw a figure approaching her and she was ready to pounce until she smelled his scent. Hades
PROLOGUE For centuries my brothers had dragged me wherever they wanted to go. They said that family was the strongest bond but in the same way it was the strongest bond it would destroy you in seconds. I don't know why it took me so long to realize it. Nothing would ever change with them. Elijah would go all over the world chasing Edmund so that he could save him. Why could he not see that Edmund couldn't be saved? He was obsessed with power and control there was nothing that he wouldn't do. We had done things in the past that we regretted but he was just something else. I don't think someone could be saved did they didn't want it to happen. Edmund had turned into the monsters that he once hated and he was so deep. that nothing would change it. Maybe love was the only solution but how could someone love if they didn't have a heart? Love was not something that existed in our world. Maybe I was foolish to choose my brothers every time they put me on the spot. But how could I not? They were the only people that I knew who would go to hell and back for me. That was the meaning of family no matter how much I hated them or whatever they did I would also choose them. It didn't matter that I was missing out on being with the love of my life but there was no happy ever after when it came to life. I would be miserable for the rest of my life when the person I loved died so where was the happy there. "You made the right choice ", said Edmund beside me pulling me out of my trance. "Yeah ", I said. I knew I was lying. It was not the right choice because no matter how many times we chose him nothing was going to change. He was still going to be the evil brother that I despised so much but if I didn't choose him he would make my life a living hell. "Don't come running to me when he disappoints you again ", said Mateo as he walked away. I knew he meant it this time around. One would only take you back a couple of times before they got tired of being treated like the second option. Maybe it was for the better this way. We would never be happy together. I would always have to choose between him and my family and there was no way he would win that war. "She won't ", said Edmund smiling down at me.
For ten years, Daniela showered her ex-husband with unwavering devotion, only to discover she was just his biggest joke. Feeling humiliated yet determined, she finally divorced him. Three months later, Daniela returned in grand style. She was now the hidden CEO of a leading brand, a sought-after designer, and a wealthy mining mogul—her success unveiled at her triumphant comeback. Her ex-husband’s entire family rushed over, desperate to beg for forgiveness and plead for another chance. Yet Daniela, now cherished by the famed Mr. Phillips, regarded them with icy disdain. "I’m out of your league."
Charlee was left at the altar and became a laughingstock. She tried to keep her head high, but ultimately lost it when she received a sex tape of her fiance and her half-sister. Devastated, she ended up spending a wild night with a hot stranger. It was supposed to be one-time thing, but he kept popping up, helping her with projects and revenge, all while flirting with her constantly. Charlee soon realized that it was nice having him around, until her ex suddenly appeared at her door, begging for another chance. Her tycoon lover asked, “Who will you choose? Think carefully before you answer.”
Once upon a time, there were two kingdoms once at peace. The kingdom of Salem and the kingdom of Mombana... Until the day, the king of Mombana passed away and a new monarch took over, Prince Cone. Prince Cone, has always been hungry for more power and more and more. After his coronation, he attacked Salem. The attack was so unexpected, Salem never prepared for it. They were caught off guard. The king and Queen was killed, the prince was taken into slavery. The people of Salem that survived the war was enslaved, their land taken from them. Their women were made sex slaves. They lost everything, including their land. Evil befall the land of Salem in form of Prince Cone, and the prince of Salem in his slavery was filled with so much rage. The prince of Salem, Prince Lucien swore revenge. 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 Ten years later, thirty-years old Lucien and his people raided a coup and escaped slavery. They went into hiding and recuperated. They trained day and night under the leadership of the fearless and cold Lucien who was driven with everything in him to get back their land, and take Mombana land too. It took them five years before they ambushed and attacked Mombana. They killed Prince Cone and reclaimed everything. As they screamed out their victory, Lucien's eyes found and pinned the proud princess of Mombana. Princess Danika. The daughter of Prince Cone. As Lucien stared at her with the coldest eyes anyone can ever possess, he felt victory for the first time. He walked to the princess with the slave collar he'd won for ten years rattling in his hand as he walked. He reached close to her and with a swift movement, he collared her neck. Then, he tilted her chin up, staring into the bluest eyes and the most beautiful face ever created, he gave her a cold smile. "You are my acquisition. My slave. My sex slave. My property. I will pay you in spades, everything you and your father ever did to me and my people." He stated curtly. Pure hatred, coldness and victory was the only emotion on his face. .
"Please trust me, I didn't do anything." "I don't believe you. I am rejecting you as my Queen and giving you the punishment of death." Alina was living outside her pack for five years. Her parents didn't try to contact her and always ignored her. Her best friend convinced her to go back to their pack and she agreed. But she had never imagined what was waiting there for her. She never thought she would meet her mate and had to face betrayal from everywhere. She had to pay for the crime which she never committed. Aaron Robertson is the king of Lycans. He is a very dominant and powerful King who not only rules Lycans but also rules other ranks of werewolves. Everyone is afraid of Lycans and he is the king of them. But who knew that he would get a mate who was just a simple Omega with no powers and strengths? He called her weak all the time but little did he know that his weak Omega would give him the biggest betrayal of his life for which he had to give her the sentence of death.
Rumors said that Lucas married an unattractive woman with no background. In the three years they were together, he remained cold and distant to Belinda, who endured in silence. Her love for him forced her to sacrifice her self-worth and her dreams. When Lucas' true love reappeared, Belinda realized that their marriage was a sham from the start, a ploy to save another woman's life. She signed the divorce papers and left. Three years later, Belinda returned as a surgical prodigy and a maestro of the piano. Lost in regret, Lucas chased her in the rain and held her tightly. "You are mine, Belinda."
After being kicked out of her home, Harlee learned she wasn't the biological daughter of her family. Rumors had it that her impoverished biological family favored sons and planned to profit from her return. Unexpectedly, her real father was a zillionaire, catapulting her into immense wealth and making her the most cherished member of the family. While they anticipated her disgrace, Harlee secretly held design patents worth billions. Celebrated for her brilliance, she was invited to mentor in a national astronomy group, drew interest from wealthy suitors, and caught the eye of a mysterious figure, ascending to legendary status.