“You will either strip and get on the bed, or go down on your knees and beg for my forgiveness. Choose one, princess.” Athena’s heart thundered like a runaway train as Hector’s dark, powerful gaze flickered over her semi-naked body. She tightened her fingers into fists and gave him a stubborn glare; “Neither! I will do no such thing. I will die before I let you touch me again, Hector.” His lips curved in a smirk and his golden wolf eyes gleamed dangerously. “Three years ago, I let you run away from me with my children. I let you do whatever you wanted. I’m sorry but your time for enjoyment has run out. You’re mine now. Mine to do as I please. Henceforth, we will be doing things my way. You humiliated me before my international clients today and for that, you will be punished. In the end, you will still obey my orders, so either do it willingly or I might employ means you do not like to command your obedience. The ball is in your court, princess…” *** Imagine being eight months pregnant and one day, out of the blue, your boyfriend whom you love so much accuses you of being whore to your face and in front of hundreds of people… Athena is hated and ill-treated by members of the Night Hunters Pack just because she was born a hybrid— half werewolf, half witch. To add to her list of sorrows, she falls in love with Hector Kensington, the Supreme Alpha’s son and the pack’s famous bad boy, and becomes pregnant for him after one wild, passionate night. Her world comes crashing down when she’s already eight months pregnant. Athena discovers that Hector never really loved her. He successfully tricked her into falling for him because of a stupid dare by his friends. Athena is humiliated before the entire pack when Hector denies fatherhood of the children in her womb. To top it all off, he publicly declares her cousin, Zara, as his one true mate. Pregnant, heartbroken and traumatised, Athena decides to leave the NightHunters Pack for good. She vows never to forgive Hector for what he did to her. Three years later, she succeeds in making a name for herself as an accomplished fashion designer. Imagine her shock when the boy who broke her heart three years ago returns as the owner of a multi-billion dollar empire and a world famous business tycoon. Hector Kensington is back for her and their children and he’s not taking “no” for an answer. He’s willing to employ every means possible, good or bad, to make sure she returns to the Night Hunters Pack with him. But he’s shocked to discover that Athena is no longer the shy, timid girl he’d once humiliated. She’s ready to fight tooth and nail to protect herself and her children from him. When horrible secrets begin to come to light and the underworld meets the world of the supernatural, will Hector succeed in his quest to win back his woman’s trust or will Athena black list him from her life forever…?
With no surname of her own, Rosalie was raised as a nobody among the commoners in the orphanage. She pushed herself to become a genius guild master in the backstreets of her kingdom and achieve one goal: find her family and reunite with them. Her efforts finally bore fruit when her informants discovered a young lady who looked exactly like Rosalie and had the same rare pink hair. That girl was Elara Highmore, the sole heiress of Count Highmore. The revelation was a blow that shattered Rosalie. Not only did she have a twin sister, but the Count family — who had the means to find their lost daughter if they wanted to — had purposefully abandoned Rosalie in the orphanage. She was heartlessly replaced by her own twin, an heiress living a blissful life a few blocks away from the information guild. "Why did I have to live a life of poverty when I am a true heiress to the Count’s family?" Rosalie’s voice shook with betrayal as she asked her gathered informants. But none of them had any more information to give her. Determined to make a comeback and seek revenge on those who wronged her, Rosalie decided to kidnap Elara Highmore and blackmail the Count. Never could she have imagined that when she finally entered Elara’s room, her twin would be dying all alone with nobody around her. “Elara!” Even with the firm lock on her heart, Rosa was deeply shaken by the loss of her twin. She regretted coveting Elara’s life and decided to punish whoever it was that murdered her. Assuming that the culprit was someone in the Count’s manor, Rosa held her breath and waited for someone to knock on her sister’s door. Soon enough, someone did. “My Lady, you must come out and meet your guest this time. I assure you it is not your fiancé, the Marquess, so you do not have to pretend to be sick! We can’t dismiss a Duke from seeing you, after all, can we?” The maid giggled shamelessly on the other side of the door. A fiancé her twin sister didn’t want to meet, a maid who looked down on the Count’s sole heiress, and the only Duke in the kingdom coming unannounced and seeking an audience with Elara while her parents were not present. Rosalie was certain that one of them was the murderer. “…Tell him that Elara Highmore will be right there to meet with him,” she declared. Not long after, the entire kingdom fell into chaos with the scandals that swamped most of the noble houses. And Lady Elara Highmore — who was in the middle of all those scandals — vowed to destroy everyone who came her way. There was one exception to that rule: Duke Kael Dragomir who had a revenge plan of his own. Can mortal rivals become trusted allies? Will two people driven down the same dark path be able to gain each other’s trust and find the keys to unlock each other’s hearts?