Forbidden Gem

"Do I intimidate you?" He asked, cocking his eyebrow, a sexy smirk tugging up his lips. "More than you'll ever know, sir," she breathed quietly.

Alexander Hawthorne doesn’t date. He doesn’t have time. At thirty-five, his life revolves around HawStone Global Engineering and his ten-year-old son, Jack. Work is demanding, parenting is exhausting, and now that Jack’s mother is moving to New Jersey with her new husband, Alex is left to manage it all alone. Exhausted, overworked, and barely keeping it together, he’s desperate for help. Celine Stone, his partner’s niece, a brilliant graduate student taking a break from her thesis in cybersecurity. Ten years younger, stunning, compassionate, and completely off-limits. Celine becomes Jack’s new nanny. From the very first moment, Alex is captivated. She's Gorgeous. She’s patient with Jack, smart, funny, and utterly irresistible. And the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to deny the attraction that’s simmering between them. He knows he shouldn’t. She’s his partner’s niece. She’s just 25 years old, ten years younger than him. And he’s a father who must put his son first. But some desires don’t wait for perfect timing… and some connections refuse to be ignored. As their forbidden attraction grows, Alex and Celine must navigate their feelings, their responsibilities, and the world that insists they stay apart. Because falling for the nanny isn’t just risky it could change everything.

"Do you know the other reasons why I am so furious? It's not just because I saw you with Kristoffer during this late night." "I am angry, because you just fucking left me again after what had happened between us last night!" "You left me after you repeatedly begged me to fuck you harder!" Everything started to turn upsidedown when Samantha Hudson found out that her step-brother is no other than the man who took her virginity, Tristan Hilton, a billionaire who's also known for being a playboy on their city. How can they resist the forbidden desires they've been holding for each other, knowing that it'll be a kind of sin?

{Warning: Some chapters of this story, entails erotic and matured contents. Read as you dim fit, or at your own detriment. Consider this an authors advise.} "My heart tells me this is the best and greatest feeling I have ever had. But my mind knows the difference between wanting what you can't have and wanting what you shouldn't want. And I shouldn't want you." • • • Keishana was reluctant to love the man her sister also loved so she did everything not to get close to him. But who would have thought that they would be so close to each other that they could hardly be separated? And in an unexpected turn of events, he fell on her and there was no other way to regain his love for her sister whom he had promised to marry. Will she be able to give up everything, including her family, just for the sake of the man she loves? Or is she willing to let go of everything they have to make her sister happy?

A phoenix is a soulless creature with immortality and resurrection or life after death. It has a mortal mate who is in possession of the blue flame, and when that flame connects with the red flame carried by the phoenix, it creates a crystal ball-like structure filled with the energy of yin and yang. When that crystal ball finally enters the body of Phoebe she will become a deity with divine power, but that process is only available to a person blessed with the power of the Phoenix. And if she foolishly decides to become human, the next phoenix will be doomed to a curse that will awaken after its thousandth year of life.

Hindi ko inasahan na muli kaming magkikita ng lalaking minsan ko nang minahal… si Michael Brian Lucero. Akala ko siya na ang lalaking makakasama ko habang buhay, pero nalaman kong pustahan lang pala ang dahilan kung bakit siya lumapit sa akin. Pagkamatay ni Papa, hindi na kami tumagal sa iisang bahay—palipat-lipat kami dahil paiba-iba ang kinakasamang lalaki ni Mama. Hanggang sa pinakasalan niya ang isang bilyonaryo, na babago sa takbo ng buhay ko. Sa paglipat ko sa mansyon ng bagong asawa ni Mama, bumungad sa akin ang mukha ng gwapong lalaki na matagal ko nang kinalimutan—si Michael, ang kaisa-isang anak ng stepfather ko. Akala ko, madali lang makisama. Pero nang magtagpo ang aming mga mata, ramdam ko ang kakaibang init sa pagitan namin—isang damdaming mali, pero hindi ko kayang pigilan. Habang pilit kong itinatago ang bawal na damdamin, mas lalo lang akong nahuhulog sa kasalanang hindi ko kayang tanggihan. Dahil minsan, kung ano pa ang bawal, siya rin ang pinakamasarap tikman. “He’s the sin I can’t stop craving.”

Sinubukan ni Samantha Hudson na kalimutan ang lalaking nakasama niya sa isang gabing pakikipagtalik noong gabi na ginugol niya sa pagpapalasing sa isang club upang makalimutan kung gaano siya nagagalit na malaman na ikakasal ang kanyang ina sa ibang lalaki. Ngunit nagsimulang maging komplikado ang lahat simula nang malaman niya na ang kanyang step-brother ay walang iba kundi ang lalaking kumuha ng kanyang pagka-birhen, si Tristan Hilton, isang bilyonaryo na kilala rin sa pagiging playboy sa kanilang lungsod. Paano nila mapipigilan ang bugso ng damdamin na puno ng pagnanasa na kanilang itinatago para sa isa't isa, lalo na at ito'y magiging isang malaking kasalanan?

"She's mine" Dante grunted, casting an evil look towards Rome. "Just in case you didn't know Dante, I am not a property for you two to bargain over" Grace almost yelled, her head was spinning, she was angry more at herself than Dante or Rome "Yeah, tell him that. She's half Were anyways and I don't understand why You Vampires aren't even contented with one mate. Always out there coveting another's mate" "And I didn't exclude you Rome. And if you men are going to banter like two stupid children day over day then so be it. But just so both of you know, I am nobody's mate. None of you is mine and me, yours!" Grace, a lady who her father sold to a Vampire ruler discovers she is his mate. And no sooner than he'd claimed her, a Were trespasses their borders to claim her as his own. And now she's stuck with two men who would do everything in their power to get rid of one another just to have her. But some secrets lay ahead that can change her life forever. Who would she choose?

When Amelia got engaged to an Alpha Heir just because her Dad wanted to ensure an alliance, she thought her life was over but then she came across her childhood friend turned enemy Alpha King on a fateful night and everything in her life changed. He claimed her in front of the whole Kingdom as his mate, but in secret, he was out for revenge and Amelia had no choice but to give in to the Lycan King...who was capable of setting her veins alight. ~~~~~ Standalone Book 2 in Wolfverse Series Book 1: Omega for the Alpha King (Standalone) Book 2: Forbidden for the Alpha King (Standalone) Book 3: Mated to the Enemy Alpha King (Standalone) Book 4: Changing Fate for the Alpha King (Standalo

All Malia, the poor nerd ever wanted was to be like the other girls but when you think you are not classy enough, it's a problem to avoid getting ditched. Malia finds out that her secret crush, Maverick who is eager high school girl's dream man is her step brother and the first thing he does is to ask her out on a date. This gives her a chance to finally get past her fear and make a proud statement to her critics but her best friend, Ethan, a fellow nerd, is opposed to their relationship. How does she soar through the challenges her best friend's rebuttal throws her way? What happens when she finds out the secret that her step brother had always been keeping from her? Will she ever become the 'classy girl's that her nerdiness has so unfortunately stopped her from achieving?