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The Mafia Lord's Secret Lover

Evelyn Walters was the perfect heiress, until one reckless night with her father’s greatest enemy ruined everything. Pregnant, disgraced, and cast out of the Walters family, she left with nothing but her unborn child. Years later, she's survived. But as a single mother, the life she built was fragile until the man from her past discovered the truth. Now he wants her and his son. But how can Evelyn trust the father of her child... when he's also the enemy of the man who raised her? **** Excerpt: "B-Boss... the woman you slept with that night... she wasn't the supermodel the company just signed," Dylan stammered, his voice trembling. Axel's brow furrowed even further. He tried digging through the hazy, alcohol-soaked memories of that night.  Of course, he remembered the party. He remembered the whiskey. But the woman? Nope. His brain served up a blank slate. "Who was she?" Dylan swallowed. "The first daughter of William Walters." "Cough! Cough!" Axel coughed violently, his face turning red and eyes wide with shock. He never thought that woman would end up in his bed.  --- Curiosity won, as always. Evelyn grabbed the remote and hit the power button. The screen lit up, and her jaw dropped. Her eyes went wide, as if the Grim Reaper himself had just stepped out of the TV to ask for her phone number. “What the…? Why does my personal source of misery pop up the second I turn this thing on?” Because there he was, Axel Knight, gliding out of his luxury car like some corporate deity on his way to a business banquet. Evelyn scrambled for the remote to turn it off, but of course, fate had other plans. Axel turned to the camera and gave a casual wave, acknowledging the paparazzi vultures lined up outside. She hated to admit it, but the man looked sinfully good in his signature black suit and high turtleneck, his sleek black hair framing a face that could stop traffic and quite possibly her breathing. Then, suddenly, her stomach clenched. Her hand instinctively rubbed her flat belly. “Little tenant, did you just say you recognize him?”
PurpleLight · 1.8m Views

The Attendance Policy

"You were supposed to be a stranger. A beautiful mistake. Not my professor." Twenty-one-year-old Ember Hayes thought her biggest problem was her cheating boyfriend. She was wrong. After catching her high school sweetheart in bed with her former best friend on the same day she got her dream university acceptance letter, Ember does something completely out of character, she walks into an upscale bar and lets a gorgeous older stranger buy her a drink. Dr. Adrian Blackwell is everything her safe, predictable life isn't: sophisticated, dangerously attractive, and electrifying in ways that make her forget every rule she's ever followed. One night of reckless passion later, Ember thinks she can move on, forget the stranger, forgive her boyfriend, and start fresh at Ashford University. Until she walks into her first Literature class and discovers that the man who whispered filthy promises in her ear is now Professor Blackwell, her academic advisor, her instructor, and absolutely, completely off-limits. Adrian recognizes her instantly. The professional mask slips for just a moment, revealing the same hunger that consumed them both. But he recovers quickly, making one thing clear: what happened between them can never happen again. His career, her education, both their futures—everything is at stake. But denying their chemistry proves impossible when they're forced into close proximity. Private office hours become torture. Intellectual debates crackle with unspoken desire. Every accidental touch ignites memories of tangled sheets and breathless moans. As if that weren't complicated enough, Ember discovers Adrian is hiding something dark: his appointment at Ashford wasn't random. He's investigating a corruption scandal involving powerful faculty members—including the Dean, who happens to be Ember's ex-boyfriend's wealthy, influential father. When Ember's ex starts spreading vicious rumors about her "inappropriate relationship" with Professor Blackwell (ironically, to cover his own father's crimes), she and Adrian must choose: protect themselves by staying apart, or risk everything to expose the truth and fight for a love that could destroy them both. In a world where power, privilege, and propriety reign supreme, the heart wants what it wants. Even if wanting it could cost you everything. Some lessons can't be taught in a classroom. Some desires can't be graded. And some love stories are worth failing for.
novelistercassie · 1.1k Views

I Slept with the Devil of Wall Street

"You walked into my bed a nobody. You'll leave as mine—whether you like it or not." Sophia Chen thought she'd hit rock bottom when her fiancé publicly humiliated her at their engagement party—announcing his affair with her stepsister and revealing that her father's company only survived because of his family's "charity." Stripped of her job, her dignity, and her illusions, she did something completely out of character: she went to a bar and slept with a stranger. Not just any stranger. Damien Cross, the Devil of Wall Street. The ruthless billionaire whose hostile takeovers have destroyed companies and ruined lives. The man her father warned her about. The man whose cold gray eyes saw through every wall she'd built. One night. No names. No consequences. Except Damien never forgets a face. Or a debt. When Sophia shows up at Cross Capital for a job interview, her last hope after being blacklisted across the industry, those same gray eyes pin her in place with dark amusement. He offers her a deal: become his personal assistant for six months, and he'll give her everything she needs to destroy the people who destroyed her. The catch? She belongs to him. Completely. What starts as a transactional arrangement spirals into dangerous obsession. Damien is collecting evidence against her ex-fiancé's family, corrupt financiers who've been laundering money for years. Sophia is the perfect weapon: she knows their secrets, and her desire for revenge matches his own cold fury. But proximity breeds heat. And heat burns through every rule they set. As Sophia learns to navigate the cutthroat world of high finance, she discovers Damien's own dark past: a family destroyed by the same people she wants to take down, a brother's death he's been avenging for ten years, and a heart so fortified that no one has ever gotten close. Until her. Then two lines on a pregnancy test change everything. The baby growing inside her isn't just their secret, it's leverage. When her ex-fiancé's family discovers the truth, they'll use it to destroy Damien's carefully constructed revenge plan. Her stepsister wants the baby eliminated. Her father demands she disappear. And Damien... Damien locks her in his penthouse and declares war on anyone who threatens what's his. But Sophia isn't the broken woman who stumbled into his bed six months ago. She's learned from the Devil himself how to play dirty, how to weaponize weakness, and how to burn the whole game down. Now she faces an impossible choice: trust the man who treats her like a possession but guards her like a treasure, or walk away from the only person who's ever made her feel powerful. The Devil of Wall Street doesn't do love. He does ownership. But for her, he'll burn the entire financial district to ash, and dare anyone to stop him.
gracejohnny2001 · 1.3k Views