"Make sure you get married within the next three months or risk forfeiting your position as the next Alpha King as you're gonna be the first." My dad growled, shaking his fist at me and storming out of my room. As the only biological child to the Lycan King, I was set by law to become the next king. This pushed me into organising a contest among the most eligible bachelors in the world to choose a mate. The moment I opened the door and walked in, my blood froze and my face stuck with shock seeing the most handsome men I've never set my eyes on before, I could tell most of them were foreigners. "But wait!" I told myself, drifting back. My heart went into a sudden state of shock. They all rose from their seats, muscular and charming with the aura of sexual dominance filling the room. Their seductive scents filled the air. They were like princes coming to their princess' rescue as they walked towards me, seeing I was nervous. My eyes were getting clearer and clearer to the truth. I was transported in time. Upon coming a few inches closer, they stared in shock. It hit me deep, they had realised the truth as well. "Aren't you the girl we had sex with at the wild sex party overseas three years ago?" One of them asked, pointing his fist at me. I jerked my head to the side, mumbling my lips but not knowing what to say, my eyes glanced from one thing to the other. "How can this be possible? Is this planned?" I asked myself. Even as I asked, they did the same question. Just as I was glaring at them, I heard light footsteps behind me. "Mommy! Mommy!!" I turned around only to see my son, Carl. I nearly passed out urine from my body. "Mom, whoever you marry will get to be my dad even when you lost my dad three years ago." "Huh?" I heard gasps from the men. "Don't tell me you got pregnant after the wild party?" One of the men asked. "Meaning one of us could be his dad, probably?" Another suggested, exchanging glances with his colleagues. "Oh God! What have I done to myself? I'm dead!" I cried out to my wolf who's the only one that could take in my plight. My secret child has been exposed, this is too great of a scandal for a Lycan King-to-be. Then I want to get them all to be my eight mates but the law states just one. If at all, I had to choose one, who will that lucky one be when they are all drop-dead gorgeous?
Eleanor's POV
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in!" I shouted from inside of my room. The next moment, the door opened and a maid walked in, then bowed to me.
"Yes, what's it?" I raised my face from the hand mirror which I was holding to apply some morning makeup. I'm the lycan princess, so I always desire to look pretty radiant.
"Your highness, the king requests your presence now at the throne room. He has something important to say to you and your brother."
Immediately she mentioned my brother, I put up with a frown. Out of anger, I dropped the makeup kit in my hand on the bedside table and settled on the bed, lying on my sides.
"Tell him that I haven't fully woken up." I looked at the small clock on the bedside table and it was 8:30 AM already. As the princess, my wakeup time on vacation is 8 AM and on a normal day like this, it's 5 AM where I get to do some morning runs and exercises.
"Your highness, it's really a serious matter before he asked to see you this early. I guess you should go listen to what he has to say." The maid persuaded, from where I grunted and slowly pulled myself up from the bed. I shot her an unhappy glare but it was of no use.
"Come with me!" She said to me and I slowly followed her, then I realised I had half makeup on my face.
"Give me five minutes please," I told her and rushed to complete it. I was already dressed, so I went out with her.
As we passed the series of hallways and balconies heading towards the throne room, my mind was filled with a lot of thoughts as to what the king really wants from me. Anna said it's really important, I wonder if she already knows what the king is going to say.
I reached out my hand and grabbed her by the shoulder. She paused and turned swiftly.
"What's it, your highness?" She asked politely, I let out a smile. At least, she managed to be polite with me when most of the royal family members treat me as an outcast, probably because I'm a woman dreaming to take over from my dad as the next Lycan King.
"So you know what the king wants to say to me?" I questioned her with a witty smile. She shook her head and moved on.
"Come with me, please. I don't want to incur issues with your dad." From her tone, she could be afraid. Most people are afraid of my dad, his brutal and fierce face and acts makes him a king people can't withstand, except the strong.
We met at the throne room which was where he kept his important meetings here at the palace. The first person my eyes landed on was my brother, I winked my eyes away, looking over to the window. I stumbled and jerked my knee.
A groan came up from my mouth.
"See who wants to become the lycan king, she can't even compose herself." It was his voice, it was George. I heard him quite well, my adopted brother who almost raped me three years ago. I forced myself and stormed towards where my seat was.
"It's such a shame you have the mouth to talk after what you did. Shouldn't you be ashamed of yourself?" I lashed back at him, after all he almost committed a worse crime and he was my junior. I had to show him his place.
"Will you shut up and sit down here?" My dad yelled at me, sending shocking waves all over my body. I dashed to my seat in a minute to avoid a slap, it wasn't difficult to get one from him, but I always wonder why he never gave one to George who is a guy and also isn't his birth son. It's a guy that's supposed to get the yells and beatings.
I sniffed, forcing my emotions in. I realised how hard it could be to see an outsider being treated better than you in your family.
"Haven't I warned you not to raise your voice at a man no matter what he does to you?"
These words circled in my mind like a cyclone, igniting a burning fury in me. My eyes turned bloodshot, I stamped my foot on the floor, tightening my fist.
"Dad, it's such a shame you would say that. If it's so, that means some men don't really have dignity as they claim."
"What?" He stormed from his seat and gave me a hard punch on the head.
"Is that what I taught you? No wonder, you're just as useless as your mother."
I grabbed the spot he hit me, trying to absorb the pain. Tears began to cloud in my eyes, not mainly because of the punch but the trauma of being treated like a slave by the very person I called dad. I couldn't take it any longer, I broke out in tears and stood up from the seat to go to the restroom but I felt his hand grab me and jack me painfully back to the seat.
"Until you learn how to behave like a woman, I wouldn't treat you like one."
What does he mean?
I sat on the chair, crossing my arms over my chest, with my mind swayed away. I was thinking of the day I would run away from this family, this palace and this prison type of a life. Here is home but not home, rather a living hell. My mom who would be my only friend and supporter doesn't really have a say. My dad hates her, well she's the daughter of his enemy whom he wiped out all members of his family, including him.
Mom, a pretty young girl, being the only one left, he was mandated by the Supreme Wolf Council to get married to her and never maltreat or divorce her while he lives. I guess he uses me to vent all the maltreatment he would have mated out on mom while keeping her in the background, though she's the lycan queen.
"Eleanor!" His hoarse voice shook me off my deep thoughts and I shuddered while I looked at him. His eyes were filled with hate.
"I'm starting with you," he said.
"Huh?" I let out a gasp. "What do you mean?" I lip synced as I was lost to confusion at this point.
"I'm retiring soon from the position of the lycan king–"
My heart skipped with joy as I heard this. "He must be thinking of handing over to me," I muttered to myself. The hate in my eyes vanished into joy. I leaned across to hear what he had to say further, my heart was thumping hard.
"I know you've always dreamt of becoming the lycan king, the first female to be this–" He paused, giving my heart the opportunity to anticipate more. George turned and looked at me with a hateful glare but I ignored him. If I could get this position, who is he. I would twist and turn him as my revenge.
"-But that's not going to happen."
My heart snapped into two, I fell to the backrest of the chair."
"What do you mean, dad?" I poked out my pleading eyes which were dull and teary.
His glare alone was enough to get me quiet, if looks could kill, this itself would kill.
"I'm setting you up in marriage with the Lycan King of the North, Alpha Alexandro."
Until I slid off the chair and landed on the floor, I didn't know. It was my sudden reaction to hearing Alpha Alexandro's name. While we rule the South, he rules the North and is in his early forties, yet has no mate. News says he had a lot of mates but they all mysteriously disappeared after coming into the limelight, no one heard of them again.
Alpha Alexandro has a sense of mystery and dark aura even from the Journals and TV shows he appears on.
"What did you just say?" I repeated boldly again, rising up slowly. If I would obey his commands of keeping quiet at other functions, I wouldn't be here.
"Dad, that's the perfect man for her who will break and mend her–"
"Shhhhhh–" The king hissed at George, then he leaned towards him and whispered something into his ear. They exchanged glances and winked at each other which made them more suspicious.
"Eleanor, you're a woman and you need to get married as soon as possible to preserve the dignity of this royal family. The marriage has already been arranged and Alpha Alexandro will arrive in this palace tomorrow so you can get introduced to him."
"What dad?" I rose up, stammering. "How can you set me up with an Alpha whom everyone regards as a ruthless beast?"
"Come on, shut up! I don't need your decision on this."
At this George gave a wry smile, I flinched my face away in a swift, overwhelmed with confusion and disgust.
I stood up. "Dad! I'm gonna fight against this plan of yours." I angrily growled and stormed out of the room without even looking back.
"Remember you're to give yourself to him as a virgin. You haven't had a mate before, you must be a virgin. So keep yourself intact for him!" He shouted and his words fell on my ears like the hit of a metallic rod. I balled my fist so tight, then took to my heels.
Mary is called upon by her twin sister to act like her before her mate so she can attend an ex-lover's night birthday party at a club. This isn't supported as she is the Alpha Prince's chosen mate. Mary complies just to help her sister, but while being with Alpha George, her brother-in-law, things get rosy. Without her realizing, she falls for him. They make out. George soon discovers who she is same time he discovers his mate had gotten into a lot of mess outside from an affair. He has no choice but to make Mary his pretense mate till everything goes alright. But will everything go alright? And if it doesn't, what will be Mary's fate in his life?
Sienna is shattered the moment she discovers her mate is now married to her little stepsister abroad and is coming back to the estate. He claims her as his fated mate. Alpha Gray has just broken the life promise of staying with her forever. Still, he doesn't want to release her even though he now hates her. She turns to an object of mockery and abuse, a rejected and downcast Luna. Sienna sinks in despair, not until the Cursed dreaded Alpha, who's unofficially regarded as the Alpha Prince summons her. He never has anything to do with women, but things are about to change. He's Sienna's true mate but how can she cope when she learns that he's impotent? It doesn't take long when Sienna discovers she's pregnant from Alpha Gray and her new mate, Alpha Rowan is willing to adopt it. Will he come back for his child, especially when his union with his new little mate goes as he didn't expect?
I was eighteen then, just graduated from college and was looking for some rich, handsome guy to mingle with, someone who would foot my bills. This probably led me into gathering the little money I had to attend a luxury dinner party at an exquisite bar with the hope of landing with a wealthy guy. This was the greatest mistake I made, I only landed with an unplanned pregnancy. Right after losing my baby, the only soul I had on earth to comfort me, I realized I'd made a great mistake, worse than engaging in a one-night stand. I was determined to find her as far as she lives on this earth, no matter what it took me. Well, nobody knows but this was my secret reason for enrolling in a Nanny Care Agency, a prestigious one. In each family I went to look after the kid, I dreamt of seeing my baby. There's no way I wouldn't know her if I saw her. So when I heard this little voice call me, I stopped, turning around slowly. "Maybe God wants to use her to call me back," I say inside of me. My eyes lower slowly to look at her. I stumble backward, nearly falling if not that I take a good stance. "Am I dreaming?" What? She looks so much like me, could this be a coincidence of what I just had in mind or she's– My daughter? It's at this point, I see seven hot men, all identical, same height and faces, muscular, hot and sexy stepping out of the estate. Here is another mighty distraction. "Who are these?" I mutter, asking the little girl. "They are my daddies. Seven Alphas raised me up after the death of my mom. That's why I'm asking "why do I look so much like you?" As the confusion in me heightens, the seven Alphas are coming closer. It hits me deep to realize that they all have the same scent. My wolf, which has always been calm, immediately leaps up, growling so loud. What's really going on? "Mates! Mates!! Mates!!!" I hear my wolf leap and screaming. I need one man, not seven Alphas. How can all these cute, charming, sexy young men be mates with such a lowly girl as I? I'm sure the moon goddess made a pretty big mistake by doing this.
This was meant to be a secret. I was dressed in a red mini-gown, the sexiest gown in my wardrobe. Tonight is gonna be hot! I was feeling the sensations already, I'd never had sex with my mate for the five years we've been together which was one reason tonight was gonna be special. Close to his house, I masked my scent. I didn't want him getting a clue of what's happening. The hormones in my body were going crazy and my wolf was so excited. I tiptoed to the backyard of his apartment which I knew for sure was always open, talking of the door. His bedroom was right here and I was gonna throw myself on him on the bed. I banged in. The unexpected happened. My jaw dropped at the sudden sight before me. Right in front of me, on the same bed I'd planned to have Leo make love with me, was him with another girl. Seeing me, they sprang up, staring at me like they saw a ghost. Out of anger, I walked out, planning to get revenge. I got drunk in a night club and ended up in a one-night stand to cool off my anger. Next morning, I went for my first class in college hoping to put the past behind me. Just when I thought I had, I found out that the hot stranger last night is my college professor and my stepbrother. Boom! I'm pregnant for him.......
When they were kids, Derek saved Norah's life. Years later, after Derek ended up in a vegetative state from a car crash, Norah married him without a second thought and even used her medical knowledge to heal him. For two years, Norah was devoted, seeking his affection and looking to settle her life-saving debt. But when Derek's first love returned, Norah, faced with divorce, didn't hesitate to sign. Despite being labeled as forsaken, few knew of her true talents. She was a race car driver, a famed designer, a genius hacker, and a renowned doctor. Regretting his decision, Derek begged for her forgiveness. Just then, a charming CEO intervened, embracing Norah and declaring, "Back off! She's my wife!" Taken aback, Norah blurted out, "What did you say?"
Rena, forced to flee to escape a marriage to a man as old as her father, made a spontaneous decision to marry Kellan, a stranger whose skills in homemaking were only matched by his financial acumen and his gentle demeanor. As their marriage unfolded, it took on a comforting predictability, with Kellan consistently showing himself to be reliable in every emergency. This sense of security crumbled when Rena uncovered Kellan’s true identity and the hidden motives behind their union. Enraged, she initiated a divorce and disappeared. Yet, it was not long before Kellan found her once again...
I pressed my lips against his and stole his sweet, savory taste, not ready to end the sweet moment. I licked my lips seductively and whispered. "Despite your age, I love you." Sarah was obsessed with the man of her dreams, despite knowing that their love was forbidden and would be disapproved by her father and others. She held onto the many beautiful dreams she had of being with him, wishing for them to come true. She found herself in love with her father's best friend, a very handsome man who had been rejected by his wife. Her desire was to show him what true love really meant. When her father received a job transfer,Sarah saw it as a perfect opportunity to be with him. The situation improved even more when she realized they would be living under the same roof.
Benjamin Dylon, a mysterious billionaire abandoned at the altar Antonela Bianchi whose name she only knows. Suffering the greatest love humiliation, she goes to a bar and meets a handsome man and gives herself completely to him. When she wakes up the next day in a hotel bed, she realizes that she has committed madness. A few days later, Antonela discovers that she is pregnant and to make matters worse, she finally meets Benjamin, discovering that the man who abandoned her at the altar is the same man she met in the bar. Pregnant and alone, rejected by her own family, Antonela has no choice but to leave so that she can have that child in peace. Three years later, when her mother suddenly passes away, Antonela is forced to return to the city and meet Benjamin again. He is now her sister's fiancé, and Antonela must hide the fact that he is the father of her child.
During her three years of marriage with Brendan, Adeline had become as humble as dust itself. However, what she got in return wasn't love and affection, but endless indifference and disdain. Worse yet, when the woman in Brendan's heart suddenly showed up, he further distanced himself from her. Finally, Adeline couldn't stand it anymore and asked for a divorce. After all, why should she stay with such a cold, distant man? The next one would surely be better. Brendan watched as his ex-wife left with her luggage in tow. Suddenly, a thought occurred to him and he made a bet with his friends. "She'll definitely regret leaving and will come crawling back to me in no time." After hearing about this bet, Adeline sneered. "Dream on!" A few days later, Brendan ran into his ex-wife in a bar. It turned out she was celebrating her divorce. Not long after, he noticed that the damned woman seemed to have a new suitor. Brendan was starting to panic. The woman who had clung to him for three years suddenly didn't seem to give a damn about him. What was he going to do?
Damian didn't believe in love, but he needed a wife to claim the inheritance his uncle left him. Amelia needed to take revenge on her ex-husband, and what better way to do it than a marriage of convenience with his worst enemy? There were only two rules in their fake marriage: no entanglement or sexual relationship, and they would go their separate ways after the arrangement was over. But their attraction for each other is more than they bargained for. When feelings start to get real, and Noah wants Amelia back, will Damian let her go? Or will he fight for what he believes is his?