"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get." –Forrest Gump. That quotes make perfect sense in some way, but not in the life of Allegra Fraser, who thinks she could predict her life so easily. Always in a head warmer is Allegra Fraser, a 19 years old, battling with chronic leukemia, a once bright kid with a bright future and a happy family became an hospital freak for 5 years, affecting her school life and social life. Her sickness had put her family in a tight red spot, after struggling to meet up to her everyday needs and bills, but nothing was enough untill her sickness got to the fourth stage with no treatment for it. Two months left to say bye to the world, she begged for freedom out of the hospital, when their was no hope left for her....and decided to fulfill her long desires, go to college. In a vulnerable state, she wrote an exam for medical organization who had visited her hospital, and was lucky to pass the exam. She earned a scholarship to one of the Top 5 richest college in San Fransico. But what happens when the medical team didn't make provision for an hostel for her, and she had no money for the cost of an hostel in the school, the cost alone was enough feed her family for a year. What to do? After asking for help outside the hostel, she finally gets a beautiful house for a cheap price which she had to share the first floor with someone, not far away from college. She paid for the room immediately, but what happens when she has to share the first floor with two rooms and a living room with a guy, the hottest guy in her college, not her normal type of gentle good boy, who cares a lady is living next to him, but a playboy and bad boy who doesn't know the meaning of privacy. The living room she was meant to share with him, became his brothel, where he changes women like clothing, and his bar decorating the living room with ash tray of his cigar and Alcohol bottles. Allegra thought she could live her sickly life in peace for the next two months, but what happens when she began putting Cruz Hayes in the fantasies she had been creating over the years? A dying girl and the secret son of a billionaire. But what if just one step gave a beautiful twist.
"This would be the last time you are seeing me Anna, shouldn't I get a goodbye kiss?" Allegra asked the woman in nurse clothing who just finished tending to her.
The middle-aged nurse rolled her eyes at the girl "I wouldn't miss you, I don't know why you can't stay here and continue taking your medication rather than going to a fvcked up college," the nurse sighed worriedly, folding her arms around her waist, staring back at the sick looking Allegra in a very thick cardigan and head warmer to protect her from the ash winter weather.
"It as being long I have been out, and I don't have a to-do-list, two months Anna, two months, and I have never seen the inside of any college, what is the essence of staying here, when the possibilities are still the same, no miracles, this place is getting me exhausted even more," Allegra whined, but her usual smile still not leaving her lips.
"I love you, my brave girl, you are the sweetest, strongest child I have ever met, other children like you are freaking out in their room, that one day they are...." The nurse Anna sighed not completing her sentence, before leaving the room with Allegra's drug cart.
Allegra's smile sank immediately after the nurse left, she stood up from where she sat walking to her desk, and she picked up her diary....
'Hi Diary, it's me again, the girl with a bit of ill luck, Allegra Fraser, remember me...Now I think I am old enough to understand that life is really a journey, which would end one day, but I am getting confused why do I have to be thrown on the bumpiest and shortest one of life, painful right? This would be the last winter, Allegra would be seeing, be happy for me...' she stopped writing for a while before a bright smile suddenly appeared on her cheek 'And tomorrow my pain would stop a little, I would be going to Hambock College here in San Francisco, nobody is happy for me, but I would do well to stay happy for myself.' she beamed, before dropping her diary, going to her bed.
MORNING.
"Ahh Baby...ahh" Allegra's elder brother Justin, urged her to open her mouth for a candy.
"Is this the surprise gift you promised for gaining admission?" Allegra chuckled taking the candy from her brother, as her mother and father helped her in packing her stuff in the hospital room.
Jasmine her younger sister of ten jumps on the bed next to her "Is college like high school Alle?" she asked and Allegra chuckled.
"It's my first time going to a college, you should ask Justin about that." Allegra directed the question at Justin who was helping her with her tea flask.
"Would you be fine at college Alle?" Jazz asked, and Allegra nodded caressing her kid sis hair.
"We are ready!!!" Mr. Fraser spreads out his arm excitedly.
"Are you sure all her hand gloves are in her suitcase?" Mrs. Fraser asked her husband.
"Yes..yes, her gloves, her head warmers, fur coats, cardigans, and hoodies, I did that." He said, and his wife gave him a thumbs up.
Allegra was about to get off her bed when Justin stopped her "Wait!!! Alle before you go, I got this for you...Ta-da" Justin held up three wigs.
"Aww Justin...I don't think I would need that."
"There are more bullies in college than high school, mature bullies," Justin said, walking up to her, his hand going to her head warmer before pulling it off, revealing a bald Allegra.
He helped her wear a blonde shoulder-length wig, before helping her with the head warmer back "Now how does she look, sweetheart?" Justin asked Jasmine, who giggled, seeing how beautiful her sister looked.
"You have always been beautiful Alle, but today you look way more stunning." Jasmine praised.
After having a sweet conversation with her family, and saying bye to her nurses and doctors, she was finally happy to feel the fresh air of San Fransico again.
Allegra chuckled pushing her head outside of the car window, as she let the gentle wind and snowflakes fall on her face.
"I know you are excited Alle, but you would catch a cold." Her dad who would be accompanying her to the school cautioned.
She listened to him, before leaning into his chest, and he hugged her to him pecking her head 'She knew how are family were hurting knowing they were going to lose her soon, and that is part of the reason she would like to stay away for a while, so the pain won't be too much on them, she wasn't scared of death taking her, but she was scared because people she loved would be the one hurting.'
"Finally!!!" Her dad's excited voice woke her up from her sleep.
Allegra yawned, her signature smile on her face again, seeing the large college building in front of her through the car window "It's so big and beautiful." Allegra mouthed.
Her father helped with the car door, and helped her in carrying down her suitcase "Call me if you need anything." Mr. Fraser said, and she nodded "Your provisions are in the second suitcase, I would send more money to buy more on Saturday, take care my love, and don't forget to use the right drug at the right time." Her dad reminded her before he pulled her into a warm drug.
'If only those drugs are ready to save her from what is coming to hit her next.'
In the next minute, she dragged both suitcases into the compound of the large school, it wasn't like other universities, this one you rarely see students loitering around the school premises.
"Are you new here miss?" One of the staff who had seen her outside asked, and she nodded, praying she wouldn't have to go through another stress 'Why not just direct her to her dorm.' her fatigue was already hitting in again.
"Yes."
"Come with me," he said and led her to a supporting staff.
*****
"Yes, found it Allegra Fraser, welcome to Hambock Allgera...uhm let's see if you were provided a dorm," the middle-aged woman continued her search again on the laptop, with Allegra sitting in the seat in front of the lady's desk.
Her hand was in her suitcase, stylishly searching for her drugs "Uhnn Miss Allegra, I don't think you were provided with a hostel, but you can still get it, very affordable." The lady passed her a paper.
"Affordable." Allegra's scoff came out in a cough and more coughs.
"Are you fine?" the lady asked her, quickly passing her a glass of water, which she downed immediately.
"One Thousand Dollars every month, I only have a hundred and fifty with me," And that was part of Justin's savings he had helped her with that morning.
"Oh, there are affordable houses outside, not around the school but in the slums, suit yourself, Ms. Allegra, fill out this form after class, I will ask someone to direct you to your dept." The lady's look changed to a look of umbrage.
Allegra swallowed, contemplating if she should call her father again or not, but she chose the latter, discarding the thought, immediately.
*****
"Young master, please, don't do this to us, come with us or your father will be angry..." Guards in black knelt in front of a guy who sat on one of the fences of a black market, leaning his back on a wall, a cigar playing between his lips.
"Young master please, the boss would kill us if we go back without you." A pitiful-looking man, not wearing the same color of clothing the other guards wore pleaded, as he suffered the wrath of the harsh snow, constant white air, puffing out of his lips, as if he was smoking a cigar like his young master.
"I would be humble by providing you with an expensive coffin." The voice of the guy sitting on the fence came out devilishly cool, tapping his boots softly on the edge of the fence.
"You don't want me doing this the hard way." the guard's voice below suddenly turned stern standing up from his kneeling position "Get him down the fence with all it takes." the man ordered the other guards behind him, who were quick to find a ladder.
In no minute, a guard had mounted the ladder "Young Master, I wouldn't like to force you down with me, please, use the ladder before I have no choice left."
"Then force me down, what are you waiting for?" the guy's voice, sitting on the edge of the fence still remained cool.
Immediately the guard's hand made to touch him, he sent the guards back to the snow, by burying his fist in the guard's face.
"Young master!!!" the other frustrated guy yelled but was surprised when he saw the guy he had just referred to as his 'young master' and began climbing down the ladder.
After getting down Cruz let the cigar butt fall from his hand as it sizzles off in the snow, he walked past the guard and got into the Ferrari, the man with different clothing was surprised that his young master had entered the car willingly "Drive, drive to the villa.." the man ordered the chauffeur in the Ferrari, scared that the young master would run away again, as the guards took the jeep behind, trailing behind the Ferrari.
HAYES VILLA..
"You fvcking son of a b!tch." A heavy punch met with Cruz's chin even before he could walk into the foyer.
Another one came on his lips, making Cruz scoff, as he rubbed the blood on his cut lips "Is this another way of welcoming me father?" he asked the man who was raging in front of him.
The guards who had come to pick him up from the black market, stood behind him, hands at their back, heads, facing the floor.
"What did you do to Thana?" his father asked raging.
"I told her the truth, I don't want a fiancee but a fvck mate." He pouted, his brow raised, expecting another punch from his father, which came a second after the thought, bruising his cheek.
"You bastard!! if I lose the partnership deal with her father, be ready to lose everything you have." His father raged "I want all his credit cards, master cards, all fvcking money cards of his blocked, no allowances for him until he gets back to his senses." Mr. Hayes said, before walking away.
"I think you should go back to Ms. Thana in college, and tell her you are sorry." The guard behind Cruz pleaded.
"And that is what I would do." A naughty grin appeared on his face, walking to a bar in the house and taking a bottle of vodka with him, before leaving the villa.
I am someone you wouldn't pray showed up in your nightmares... I am no devil incarnate. I am the devil itself.I do not hunger for women, but just one became a reason for my starvation. I would exploit her meekness. I would make her beg to be mine.When I claim her, it won't be kind.It will be savage. Raw. She would fall on her knees, but it wouldn't be a reason to pray. When she parts her lips, not even a worship to the Moon Goddess would be heard, because those lips that bring me to sin would only call my name and worship my body.She was something forbidden. She was never meant to be mine. She is my father's new little wife. But I am ready to break the rules of the Bratva and the Nightshade Pack. I would spill my father's blood like paint on a canvas.
I'll haunt your every step Lia." His whispers send shivers down her spine. He would stop at nothing to claim her. ~ No one cares about her, not even her father who pushed her into the devil's den with a smile on his face because he wanted an alliance. The Devil; She drugged him to get his signature on a divorce paper, and now they are done. Ophelia Laurent thought it was over, not until...he had her back in his dungeon, but this time not behind bars, but in front of him, on her knees in chains that drove her to dark pleasures. The devil would do all it takes to show her that he loves her, and wants to protect her, but not in a gentlemanly way. "I would own you without buying you red roses nor feeding you with empty promises...."
To stop herself from getting married to her cheating fiance Ava Colton decided to get into a scandal, not caring if she got tagged as a whore. He cheated, and she had every right to do the same. She intentionally got drunk in a club, got into a one-night stand with a stranger, and got footage of it playing on the day of her supposed wedding with her fiancé alongside his with her step-sister too. Getting what she wanted even after being tagged a Texas whore, things began falling apart for her family when her fiance's family withdrew from being business partners with her family. All hope was lost when her father refused to pay for her mother's medical bills again because of her being the reason for his downfall. With shame, she decided to go beg her ex-fiance, but what happens when salvation comes to her differently? "Be mine and no one would dare to go against you." He said his voice low and husky, sending shivers down her spine. Salvation with horns and darkness clouding it who turns out to be her ex's fiance, uncle, and also the man she had a one-night stand with.
"I...I don't want you." She stuttered, a slight shiver running down her spine, with his head buried in the hollow of her neck. "Can you prove that without getting wet?" It all started with a one-night stand and went on with a marriage of convenience. Trusting her fiance with her sister was the dumbest thing she would forever hate herself for, they backstabbed her making her look like the fool she was. Her plan to get herself not to marry her cheating fiance went futile, but just on their wedding day salvation with the horns of the devil came for her. Her fiance's uncle, Cruz Hayes, A devilish angel shrouded in mystery, had proposed a marriage of convenience, which she accepted. Her plan was never to get into an intimate relationship with him, but what happens when she can't refuse temptations and seduction, and letting herself succumb to it was the only option to keep her sanity in check?
An orphan, who finds pleasure in singing, and had become one of the member of a famous music band in Texas, got betrayed by the people she trusted most, her band mate, who had acted like her family, but she later realized that that was just an act out up by them, to bring her to her doom. Because of plain selfishness and jealousy, her band member drugged her and sold her out as a thing of pleasure for a one night stand with a stranger, after seeing the good pay that came with it. Her kind, easy going and gentle nature was used against her. Her first was taking by a stranger, she knew nothing about. She promised to get her revenge, but she was brought to nothing but dust, after pictures of her in a one night stand was revealed to the world, all hopes lost. But surprisingly to her, the stranger who she had a one night stand with, promised to help get her revenge but on certain conditions which was hard to choose from.
"You're mine, little puppy," Kylan growled against my neck. A soft gasp escaped my lips as his lips brushed my skin. My mind screamed at me to push him away-the Lycan Prince who had humiliated me again and again, but my body betrayed me, leaning into him before I could stop myself. He pressed his lips against mine, and his kiss grew more aggressive, more possessive as I felt my legs weaken. What was I doing? In a split-second, I pulled away and slapped him hard across the face. Kylan's eyes darkened, but the smirk on his lips exposed his amusement. "You and I both know we can't fight this, Violet," he said, gripping my wrist. "You're my mate." "And yet you don't want me," I replied. "You told me you were ashamed of me, that l'd never be your queen, that you'd never love me. So please, accept my rejection and let me go." "Never," he whispered, his grip tightening as he pulled me closer. "Soon enough, you'll be begging for me. and when you do-I'll use you as I see fit and then I'll reject you."
To the public, she was the CEO's executive secretary. Behind closed doors, she was the wife he never officially acknowledged. Jenessa was elated when she learned that she was pregnant. But that joy was replaced with dread as her husband, Ryan, showered his affections on his first love. With a heavy heart, she chose to set him free and leave. When they met again, Ryan's attention was caught by Jenessa's protruding belly. "Whose child are you carrying?!" he demanded. But she only scoffed. "It's none of your business, my dear ex-husband!"
"There will be no falling in love, we will only act as a loving couple when we are in public, we will share a room to make it believable, but no intimacy, touching is off-limits. We'll only have sex once a month, and that's solely to produce an heir. You won't interfere in my business, and I won't interfere in yours. You will be my wife in every sense and you will not be involved with any other man," he said, arrogance seeping from every word. I watch his mouth move, I'm not ready to fall in love with any man, especially not one as arrogant and egoistic as him. I can handle acting as a loving couple, and as for intimacy once a month. I can agree to that just to satisfy my sexual cravings with no strings attached. "Where can I sign?" I asked since I had nothing to lose. *** Nadine's wedding dreams turned to nightmares when she caught her sister and fiancé cheating! With a secret recording, she's ready for revenge. But then mysterious billionaire Logan West offers a deal: A Contract Marriage to take down her ex's empire. But what Nadine doesn't know is her life is getting complicated as she takes her chance to get revenge or risks everything for a chance at love?"
Two years ago, Ricky found himself coerced into marrying Emma to protect the woman he cherished. From Ricky's perspective, Emma was despicable, resorting to underhanded schemes to ensure their marriage. He maintained a distant and cold attitude toward her, reserving his warmth for another. Yet, Emma remained wholeheartedly dedicated to Ricky for more than ten years. As she grew weary and considered relinquishing her efforts, Ricky was seized by a sudden fear. Only when Emma's life teetered on the edge, pregnant with Ricky's child, did he recognize-the love of his life had always been Emma.
“You need a bride, I need a groom. Why don’t we get married?” Both abandoned at the altar, Elyse decided to tie the knot with the disabled stranger from the venue next door. Pitying his state, she vowed to spoil him once they were married. Little did she know that he was actually a powerful tycoon. Jayden thought Elyse only married him for his money, and planned to divorce her when she was no longer of use to him. But after becoming her husband, he was faced with a new dilemma. “She keeps asking for a divorce, but I don’t want that! What should I do?”
Rena got into an entanglement with a big shot when she was drunk one night. She needed Waylen's help while he was drawn to her youthful beauty. As such, what was supposed to be a one-night stand progressed into something serious. All was well until Rena discovered that Waylen's heart belonged to another woman. When his first love returned, he stopped coming home, leaving Rena all alone for many nights. She put up with it until she received a check and farewell note one day. Contrary to how Waylen expected her to react, Rena had a smile on her face as she bid him farewell. "It was fun while it lasted, Waylen. May our paths never cross. Have a nice life." But as fate would have it, their paths crossed again. This time, Rena had another man by her side. Waylen's eyes burned with jealousy. He spat, "How the hell did you move on? I thought you loved only me!" "Keyword, loved!" Rena flipped her hair back and retorted, "There are plenty of fish in the sea, Waylen. Besides, you were the one who asked for a breakup. Now, if you want to date me, you have to wait in line." The next day, Rena received a credit alert of billions and a diamond ring. Waylen appeared again, got down on one knee, and uttered, "May I cut in line, Rena? I still want you."