Warning! Mature Contents! ***Excerpt*** "I fell for you because you loved me when I didn't have the courage to love myself. You captured my heart and walked straight into my soul," He rasped possessively, his warm breath tickling the back of her neck as hot tears stung the sides of her eyes. He leaned closer, his lips brushing her ear, "And now, I am going to make you mine. Mine alone." He meant every word he just breathed out. *** He was her balance, while she was his support. He was her wild, while she was his calm. He was her anchor, while she was his wings. Betrayed. Murdered. Denied a final goodbye, Naya, a fearless witch, and Luna is ripped from the loving warmth of her Alpha's embrace. But fate offers her a twisted bargain. A bargain that turns out to be a curse for her. After his mate's death, Alpha Cezar, who almost died of heartache, finally finds love with a strange young girl, Sephora, the same girl his Beta was madly in love with. What happens when Naya mysteriously returns home to her mate, and Cezar discovers that Sephora isn't the strange, helpless girl he thought she was? How would he survive the reality of having to lose his mate for the second time just the exact moment he found out that she was alive? Steamy romance. Painful betrayal. Heart-wrenching discoveries. Obsession. Vengeance. All in one. Brace yourselves. This will be one of the most twisted, mind-blowing stories you'll ever come across.
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Birds chirped sweetly in the woods. The fresh leaves around shone yellowish green with the setting of the evening sun. The woods seemed so peaceful, but not so peaceful for Naya.
The panicked cry of the young girl could be heard as she made her way through the fresh leaves that covered the woods. It had just finished raining, and the soil was muddy, while the atmosphere was filled with the chilling cold that came with the rain.
She rubbed her freezing palms together, if that would offer some warmth to her already numb fingers.
A guttural roar, laced with bloodthirsty glee, echoed through the trees. "Fan out, you fools! Don't let the she-devil escape!" Came the voice of a man who was very muscular and scary-looking.
Naya scanned the unfamiliar environment. She had been running for a while now and lost track of the familiar paths she was used to.
She hastened her steps as she ran further into the woods, not knowing which way to go. Her heart twisted with fear and panic.
Her usually beautiful emerald eyes darted a terrified glance at her wrist, where a crimson tide flowed freely from the wound inflicted by a wickedly barbed arrow that had been shot at her.
The vile concoction coursing through her veins rendered her magic inactive.
Naya, a charming young girl, ruthless, vicious, and a devoted Luna to her pack, has fought side by side with her Alpha. Together, they have conquered territories, won wars, and built a legacy. She was one of the most powerful witches of her time. No one dared cross paths with her.
She leaned behind a huge Elm tree, her long, red hair already a tangled mess falling around her shoulders.
Her lips parted as she tried to catch her breath, which came in short, rasped gasps.
"This isn't a good way to die, Naya," she heard the familiar voice of her wolf, Ria, slither at the back of her mind. "Fight back, you venomous serpent!"
She tried mind-linking her mate, but to no avail. She was in this alone.
A sickening thud tore her from her thoughts. Another spear, aimed at her with practiced malice, hit the tree she leaned on.
A cruel laugh, dripping with sadistic pleasure, echoed through the woods. "Come on, Naya, you can't win this time around," came a familiar voice, but she couldn't tell whom it belonged to. She was too busy fighting for her life. She can deal with that later. Right now, survival demanded her attention.
She tried shifting into her wolf, but the poison from the arrow was beginning to take effect, and she was losing contact with her wolf.
Her lips moved in a slow rhythm as she chanted something in a strange language, but she winced in frustration as she felt totally empty. She had no connection to even the tiniest part of her magic.
She felt a bitter taste on her tongue as panic clawed at her throat.
She was in so much agony. "I can fight this," she rasped, her voice hoarse with exhaustion and pain, trying to encourage herself.
She summoned up courage and hastened deeper into the woods. They were closer. She could feel them everywhere around her. The masked men... The witches with them... They were encircling her.
A twig snapped under Naya's foot. The sickening crack ripped through the quietness of the forest, shattering the fragile hope of safety she had, as her pursuers surely knew what direction to look.
A strangled cry escaped her lips when her ankle twisted, sending a white-hot spike of pain lancing up her leg. She crumpled onto the damp forest floor.
"Over there!" One of the men said in a deep baritone voice, and they all ran in the direction where the noise came from. There, they found her lying helplessly on the ground.
Her breath hitched in ragged gasps. Tears, hot and unexpected, spilled down her cheeks, blurring the figures emerging from the shadows.
Naya turned slowly and watched in horror as she was being surrounded.
She pushed herself up on one arm. Her emerald eyes, usually blazing with the ferocity of a lioness, now pleaded for pardon, "Please, don't kill me." Her voice rasped with a vulnerability she never knew she possessed.
"What do you want from me? I haven't done anything wrong," Naya said between sobs. She thought about everything: her mate, life, and legacy she had fought so hard to build. Everything came flooding her mind with tears flooding her eyes.
The silence that followed stretched for an eternity, broken only by the ragged gasps escaping Naya's blood-stained lips.
The silence was followed by the low chuckle of one of the masked men, who seemed to be the leader, as he moved two steps forward, so that he was directly facing her. "We want nothing from you, Naya. You have bitten more than you ought to. And your death is all I want," he hissed, his words dripping with evil satisfaction.
A glint of cold steel flashed in the fading light when the leader drew his sword, the polished surface reflecting the dying embers of the sun.
Her whole life came flashing through her eyes.
Memories flickered through her mind - stolen kisses under a canopy of stars, the clang of steel against steel in the heat of battle as she fought side by side with her mate, the echo of Cezar's laughter, the wish to have a pup that looked just like him.
Her life, which was once perfect and full-blooded, was threatened with an abrupt and brutal end without even a chance to fight.
"Slit!" The sword sliced right through her throat, a choked gasp escaping her lips.
Her eyes stared in horror as the menacing face of her killer came into view. "No! It can't be..." Her thoughts were cut short by the silent darkness that enveloped her, and her eyes closed in death.
Trigger Warning: This is a dark, intense romance with a few scenes of psychological manipulation, violence, and non-con. Recommended for mature readers. ***EXCERPT*** "I could burn the world to ashes, and you would still be the only thing worth destroying," he whispered, his lips just close enough to feel my desperate, trembling breath, tears leaking down my eyes. "Your pain is beautiful, Tera," he whispered with a chilling smile. "It shows you're still trying to fight what you know you've already lost." *** Dr. Tera Williams thought her life couldn't sink any lower after signing the divorce papers her husband's mistress threw in her face. But when a twist of fate puts her in a prison cell, stripping her of her career and reputation, she realizes she hasn't even begun to fall. After spending three years in prison, she struggles to get her life back on track again by starting from her lowest. Despite all the hurdles she had to endure from her current boss, she finds love again with Ryan, a single father, who is madly in love with her. But just as she's about to marry him, her worst nightmare resurfaces: She finds out that she is still legally married to her obsessive ex-husband, Logan, who has been doing everything possible to win her back. How does she navigate her life when she is now trapped between two possessive men who are not willing to give her up for the other?
TRIGGER WARNING!!! This book is a very dark romance. Alpha Keegan is everything 18+ and he enjoys being bad without craving repentance. So, please, if you're not into dark romance, in the name of everything holy, do not read this!!! **** He had no intentions of keeping her forever. But while it lasted, he wanted to do the worst things to her. ... Alpha Keegan, a ruthless man who carries the anger of a thousand men, was feared and respected by even Alphas older than him. He prided in being evil and held no desire for redemption. He took extreme pleasure in executing witches as they were a stain to the world. Sheera, an extremely beautiful lady, wanted nothing but a happy life. But her beauty became her curse when she was brought to serve a man whose icy heart craved only the taste of her innocence. She wished to get far away from him, because she knew for sure he'd have her killed the moment he discovered her biggest secret. But he wouldn't let her go. Not when he wasn't done tainting her very soul. Keegan's dark heart had no place for love. Pleasured by three mistresses, he never knew that one of them was THE CURSE while another was THE BLOOD. What happens when he found himself obsessed with Sheera beyond comprehension? And what happens when he finds out Sheera's secret, which unleashed his worst nightmare? This would be the most twisted, suspenseful book you'd ever come across!
Warning! Mature Contents! ***Excerpt*** "You belong to me, Sheila. I alone am capable of making you feel this way. Your moans and body belong to me. Your soul and your body are all mine!" *** Alpha Killian Reid, the most dreaded Alpha in all of the North, wealthy, powerful and widely feared in the supernatural world, was the envy of all other packs. He was thought to have it all... power, fame, wealth and favour from the moon goddess, little was it known to his rivals that he has been under a curse, which has been kept a secret for so many years, and only the one with the gift of the moon goddess can lift the curse. Sheila, the daughter of Alpha Lucius who was an arch enemy to Killian, had grown up with so much hatred, detest and maltreatment from her father. She was the fated mate to Alpha Killian. He refused to reject her, yet he loathed her and treated her poorly, because he was in love with another woman, Thea. But one of these two women was the cure to his curse, while the other was an enemy within. How would he find out? Let's find out in this heart racing piece, filled with suspense, steamy romance and betrayal.
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