holiday hockey tale: the icebreaker's impasse

Slave. Broken. Wolfless. I've always been the perfect toy for pain and pleasure to the ruthless Alpha Jax who owned me. Twenty years, I've lived in abuse, toture and slavery so one night I decided to run away from it all to find freedom, only to discover I had stepped into the pack of our enemy. I'm taken to their cruel and merciless Alpha Ares who fails to recognize me as Jax's slave so I thought I was free, but the only way he lets me stay in his pack is to be a slave once more.His slave.

Sadie Greer just turned nineteen when her father arranged her marriage to a Crypto developer Cenric Wollf over a business deal. As soon as she finished college, she finally met him, marrying the evil wrapped in a pretty thousand-dollar suit the same day. Unknown to Sadie, her husband has his own motives. Cenric Wollf has been sleeping with his enemy for years just to help take down the man behind his brothers’ death, even if it means sacrificing his own freedom. He married the daughter of his enemy. Sadie is only a part of his plan, his subject, the weak link. He’s supposed to charm her, seduce her into his , use her as his pawn. When he gets to know her, she’s nothing like her father. Cenric starts to feel something afraid he’s losing control over. He falls deeper. Contrary to what Sadie’s brother has fed her over the years, she doesn’t sense danger in the air. Cenric likes to take control to keep her safe, but nothing dark and deadly, just thrills and crazy chemistry. When she starts to get to know him, something else resurfaces. They both fall into their own trap. Cenric’s true intentions and her family secrets prevail. But nothing Cenric wouldn’t do to prove that there’s more to it than their arranged marriage, even if it means befriending the man who hurts his wife.

When I woke up today, I didn't expect my one happiness in life to hit me in the face. Literally. He hit me in the face. Amia's father ditched her mother when he found his mate, and growing up in an abusive household, Amia is used to watching her mother be on the losing side when it comes to love. She's sworn she'll never be like her. After a night that was supposed to be special with her boyfriend, the Alpha's son, she realizes she's in a position she never wanted to be in. And if that weren't enough, Amia's ex-best-friend, Levi, steps in to play the hero. He's a little too late, four years too late. When Levi starts saying things that make a little too much sense, Amia has to take a good look in the mirror. CONTENT WARNING: This book contains physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and alcohol abuse. Some chapters may be triggering for survivors.

Daily update of two chapters. Nicolos Costello, a conceited figure with the most ruthless and merciless personality you'll ever encounter. The most feared man in the world of mafias, Capo de capos, boss of all bosses. Having a tragic past, and a tormented destiny, Nicolas craved for love all his life Sofia Costantinovich a counsellor and a girl with a soft heart, having materialistic wealth but abandoned off her fathers love, she wanted someone to rely upon, and then she witnessed him... Her Nico, the man she immediately fell for, the man who was about to wipe off all her agonies, but it was just an illusion. Nicolas captured her, and tormented the life out of her. "I'll f**k you so hard, that even that cu*t of yours will scream my name" He grabbed her hair and compelled her to look at him. what is the reason, the soft soul Sofia is being possessed by the mafia king. This is an r rated novel, please do consider some mistakes

"I don't want to be anyone's fucking Wife I have my whole life ahead of me How could you do this Dad," I said. "Natalia, you'll survive the man your marrying is a very successful businessman along with being the Don of the most feared Mafia." My father says"FUCKING LOMBARDI MAFIA YOUR NOT DOING THIS I KNOW MOM WON'T ALLOW IT," I yell."Watch your tone young lady and Your Mother is well aware and you will do this end of discussion." My father says."You will be meeting him tomorrow and I expect you to be on your best behavior after you guys meet you will be moving in with him on Tuesday your dismissed," He says waving his hand for me to leave. Natalia Esposito 23 years old young, single, beautiful, and Daughter of a Mafia leader. The Esposito Mafia. Natalia is a fierce girl. shes been through hell and back and has slowly recovered over the years. She has always liked being in control so when her father finds a way to gain even more power for his mafia he seizes it by doing an arranged marriage. When Natalia is informed she is not happy. Luca Lombardi 25 years old, Feared, Ruthless, Doesn't care what people think, hates almost everyone until he meets Natalia Esposito. When Luca finds out that he can't take over His mafia until he agrees to the arranged marriage his father agreed to. Luca agrees but had no plans to remain faithful to Natalia. How long do you think his one night stands will last? What will happen when the Devil Meets his match?

Timothy Giannato is a twenty-nine-year-old Italian multimillionaire who no longer believes in love, not since his girlfriend of more than a year of relationship, was unfaithful with a co-worker. Now Timothy prefers to live life on his own terms, no strings attached, no love, no suffering. Melody Redford is a twenty-two-year-old young woman, an animal and book lover, in her fifth semester of college studying veterinary medicine. Thanks to a night of drinking and partying, she became unexpectedly pregnant and her boyfriend Richard did not admit it and urged her to get rid of the problem. Melody’s family was no help either and forced her to make the most difficult decision any woman could make: to abort her child or to leave home and raise her child alone. Melody refused to have an abortion, so she was only three months pregnant when she moved in with her friend Lucy and got a job at a coffee shop to pay for doctor’s appointments and prenatal pills. That’s how she realized that it was going to be impossible for her to sustain a decent life for when her child was born. She was willing to do anything to avoid going back to her parents for help, let alone calling Richard. What neither of them imagined was that fate had an awfully bad joke for both of them, and it would show them that it is never too late to trust again.

Seventeen-year-old Jordi Adkins' life became both liberating and nightmarish right after he came out of the closet. While enjoying the perks of freedom, he's also being followed by the nightmare in the form of the notorious bad boy Xavier Rockwell. When Jordi finally gathered enough courage to stand up for himself, he got beaten up. Things became clear: Xavier won't stop making Jordi's life difficult, and he has to live with it for the rest of his high school life. Jordi decides to attend a house party and drink his hatred and frustration out. When Jordi wakes up the following morning, he realizes that he just woke up to the craziest plot twist of his life. He wakes up in bed only to find a naked Xavier cuddled right beside him.

I was madly in love with James Gates for 10 years. So mad that everyone in the Imperium said that I was addicted to him. How far did it go? I wouldn't allow any woman to get close to him. I wanted to eliminate every woman around him. In the end, James sent me to rehab. While others quit smoking, drinking, or gaming, I was quitting James. But later, I truly moved on from him. Yet, he regretted it and, in the pouring rain, begged me to love him again.

"You want to know what secrets I am hiding?" Dacre asked and I swallowed nervously. I nodded my head. "Well then you should submit to me," He said as his eyes darkened. "Submit?" I asked in confusion. "I will let you in on my secrets, and in exchange, you give me yourself. You are going to be mine...just mine." For every wound the world would inflict on Dacre, I would gladly let the blue eyed boy ravish me whole. Every. Single. Time. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dacre Caldwell has been given a mission to complete that he wants to see through to stake a claim on the alpha title. Love is the last thing on his mind. But when he stumbles upon a brown-haired girl, everything turns upside down. Clarissa Emerson has never liked boys. She thinks their heads are filled with bricks. But she finds herself increasingly attracted to the blue-eyed boy who has vowed to unravel secrets-not only of himself but of her body and soul.

The fourth princess was supposed to get married to the lord of the world of fire but she was in love with someone else, a simple man from the world of water.Nobody dares the lord of fire, he is evil, he is a demon shifter and will destroy anything in his path. But the fourth princess chose love over the marriage she never gave her consent to and so on their wedding day, she elopes with her lover but there has to be a bride and so she places her unfortunate servant, Myan in her stead. The lord of fire had no idea he wasn't marrying his beloved princess, what happens when he finds out that she was replaced with a mere servant?