smoke mirrors and consequences

After dumping the Obsessive Tyrant, I was entangled ###### [Sickly Obsessive Maxim Sinclair VS Cunning Little Fox Summer Lowell] President of Sinclair Group, Maxim Sinclair, is ruthless, unfeeling, and notoriously uninterested in women, never rumored to be with any woman. However, only he knows that the woman bold enough to come undercover beside him, achieving her goal before fleeing, has haunted his sleepless nights for an entire year! Until that day, she unexpectedly returns to the country, parachuting in as the design director of a rival company... "Director Lowell, you used me and threw me away. Did I agree to this?" "Feelings fade, naturally things end. Why must President Sinclair pursue relentlessly?" "Summer Lowell, let me tell you, even if I have to go to hell, I will take you with me!" ... People gasp in sympathy, assuming this reckless woman is doomed to a fate worse than death. Little do they know, he has long laid an inescapable net, waiting for her to walk right into it. "I will trap you in a place where only I can see you, forever!" ——— [The Heroine is Career-Oriented, The Hero is Pathologically Obsessive, Known as the Jealous King of the Demon Capital!]

Many young she-wolves have dreamed of meeting their mate, the one who would sweep them off their feet, at least that was what they were told. Sapphire Nightborne once dreamed of the same thing until she met hers, a true monster. Instead of marks of love, he left whip marks , words of love were replaced with those of hate. "Congratulations Damien, you finally broke me." Join her as she struggles to be the master of her own fate.

She gave him a bullet. And he swore he'd never take it off. Then he married her to steal her inheritance—and she fell for the devil anyway. She returned to bury her father. Instead, she was forced to marry his enemy's son. - Rosalind Marlow returns to New York to settle her father's affairs, once one of the city's most feared mafia bosses, only to find he died beside his greatest rival… and left behind a contract binding her to the rival's son. Viktor Marino is cold, calculating, and infuriatingly magnetic. Rosa has no intention of becoming anyone's pawn, not in grief, not in business, and definitely not in bed. But Viktor plays a long game, and with every stare, every challenge, he pulls her deeper into a world of secrets, power, and heat. She was raised to be untouchable. He was born to conquer. And in the space between vengeance and desire, who is going to lose control first? Contains mature and dark content. ***** EXCERPT "Why would you want to leave this behind?' he growled in my ear, his chest rumbling against my back. Because I can't trust you. Because I don't know what I want. 'Because it's cruel,' I whispered. And then he pulled away, leaving me trembling, desperate, and furious.

This is the right version of the story on my account the other one had some problems on webnovel. A story about traveling through a system! Incest, multiple blood relatives, harem, pony cart, and light training. The protagonist's soul traveled through time and space to a newborn baby, and he was sent to Xia City when he was just born. At first, he didn't know that he was Liu Ruyan's son! The most important thing is that he was bound to a very bad system called the money exchange system, so after he could speak, he showed a melancholy temperament! Others thought he was sad about something, but every time someone asked him, he shook his head lightly and said no! But only he knew the pain in his heart! He guarded a system, but the system asked for money. It gave money for intelligence, but I still gave money for strength! Unfortunately, Liu Xuan, who was thrown into the welfare home, lacked money! Otherwise, he wouldn't have been hungry every day and bullied. Until Liu Ruyan came and handed over a 10 billion black card, the world finally changed. The beautiful mother's soft breasts that made people linger, and the long black legs that were longer than his life, yes, that housekeeper, the loose maid clothes, weren't they just waiting for him to fuck them? At this moment, Liu Xuan, who had been single from the previous life to this life, immediately notified the dog system after receiving the black card handed over by the beautiful mother, and directly blessed his bird gun that was growing well into a thick cannon...

On vacation in beautiful Tenerife, Mikołaj experienced an adventure he did not expect. This "one-night adventure" turned out to be fraught with consequences when one day at work Mikołaj saw a man again whom he thought he would never meet again. What will the consequences of this summer adventure look like? All events, characters and organizations are fictional. The resemblance to any real person, organization, or event is purely coincidental. Cover made using AI and my own work.

These cases now, it was impossible to give up, before it was all frustration, now, he knew where he would go, where he could be, and what he could do, it would take months, now, it's seconds, his investigations, they made sense, in which everyone came even he, when he had his first contact, with the revelation, came the great joy, now, that he had a test. when everything can be different so that he can bring everyone in his midst, so that the world is different, when he has the meteoric feeling, being that always brings interest, with rich and famous, he could more than a different day, he wore everything like everyone else was so admitting the crimes he knew would be different. From the first victim, everything to show the traces of senses, unless everything could that hour, in which it was to change history with her, being unique, with several stories and lovers of life and literature. So, when he liked and looked around, he discovered that he changed everything around, they were what motivated him to continue with his journey, there was no one to replace him, every time, when he tried, nothing went right , everything went wrong, the victims were not avenged, his city was not protected, that feeling of satisfaction and reality, he didn't need to say how much he was at that time, accomplished, he changed with his own strength, so he came and went and won.

One lie is enough to question all truths, or so they say. When the lie you’ve been told all your life comes forward as just a facade the world you once knew starts to crumble and dissolve. This leads you to try to find answers and a new source of truth. Serena grew up oblivious to the world of werewolves, vampires, and other creatures, just that they were stories from around a fire. Until one day, the truth is uncovered, which drops her into an unfamiliar and scary world that would either hurt or heal her heart and relationships. In enters the Alpha of the Riverwood Clan. He's everything that her father warned her he would be, but they share a bond that is unlike anything she has ever known. Is it from the traumatic experiences they share? Or from something more. But another man steps into the picture, throwing Serena's idea of the perfect man out of the window. This causes her to lose her faith in her family and newfound friends. Will she be able to find what is best for herself while getting the answers she needs?

What does archaeology student Danielle Herring discover in the shadows of her family tree? Corruption, murder, sex, and a serial killer ring. She’s the only biological heir to an estate, things should be simple, right? She’s accompanied by the family attorney, Stephen Briggs, on what she thinks is a quick will-reading in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She doesn’t count on one of the conditions of the will including a hot-blooded—make that a HOT!—Veterinarian she has to share a home with in order to claim her inheritance. Things couldn’t get worse, could they? This pulse-racing, emotionally charged novel proves some deep-seated secrets and desires are buried so deep in the soil that bringing them to the surface requires Truth or Consequences. Note: This book contains sexual content, adult situations, and profanity. Truth or Consequences is created by Faith Justice, an eGlobal Creative Publishing Signed Author.

What potential consequences could arise if the protagonist, who has been transmigrated into a game world, were to succumb to complacency and choose to disregard the events that take place within the game, particularly when faced with anomalous events? ----------------------- [ Author's Note: Simple Novel :) ]

Nyra lives two lives, and neither can afford the truth. By night, she rules the shadows of the city a beautiful, sharp-tongued hustler selling weed under the protection of Torry, the feared drug lord known as Shark. She knows the streets, the silence they demand, and the price of being noticed. Shark calls her his favorite, and in his world, that is both a blessing and a threat. By day, Nyra disappears into a different kind of power. An IT prodigy with a mind built for breaking systems, she earns a coveted place at ValeTech, an elite technology firm run by the cold, brilliant, and dangerously controlling Adrian Vale. He sees her talent immediately and something else he can’t quite name. Hunger. Defiance. Fire. What begins as professional tension turns into an obsession neither of them is prepared for. Adrian wants to protect her, possess her, shape her future. Nyra refuses to be owned by him, by Shark, or by the streets that raised her. Caught between dirty money and clean lies, smoke and code, she must decide how much of herself she’s willing to lose for love. Because when two powerful men want the same woman, survival isn’t guaranteed. And love might be the most dangerous addiction of all.