starbound cold protection

"From now on, you're my fiancée, and my fiancée should live with me. Don't talk, don't ask questions. Just obey," he spoke. "When you come to the mansion tomorrow, I expect to see you in your casual clothes and with your suitcases." - When Jimena, a young single mother with a dark past and a violent ex she's desperate to forget, crosses paths with Alessio Fanucci, a dangerous mafia heir, her world is turned upside down. All she wanted was to get by working as a maid at the Fanucci mansion and to keep her distance from the three infamous Fanucci brothers as much as possible. Things take a turn when the oldest brother and heir, Alessio, breaks off his arranged engagement with his ex and urgently needs a new one. Alessio, cold, ruthless, dominant, and not someone anyone talks back to, sees the quiet Jimena as nothing more than his pawn. Meanwhile, she sees Alessio as nothing more than another monster she needs to escape. As they spend more time together, the lines between fake and reality begin to blur, and they discover they have more in common than they initially thought. Tensions rise when Jimena's ex returns, threatening her new comfortable life and the secrets she’s been withholding. He is out for revenge and is determined to go to any length for it, even if that means allying with the Fanuccis' enemy, who happens to be the family of Alessio’s ex. With a war, untold truths, and feelings at stake, will Jimena’s newly formed bonds keep standing, or will everything around her crumble?

Isabella Casey, a talented actress, finds herself entangled in a scandal after being drugged by a millionaire businessman during what she thought was a routine business meeting. Saved by the enigmatic and charming billionaire, Vincent Newhouse, Isabella is thrust into a world of luxury and intrigue. As Isabella navigates the cutthroat entertainment industry and battles her own demons, Vincent becomes her unlikely protector. However, as their bond deepens, secrets from Vincent's past threaten to unravel everything they've built together. Will Isabella and Vincent's love withstand the pressures of fame, fortune, and betrayal?

Poppy McCormick was best friends with the school's most popular girl, Belle Jones, before Belle even became popular. After an incident nobody knows about, Belle turned everyone in the school against Poppy. All but one person. Grayson Prince plays by his own rules and doesn't listen to a single person. Being the bad boy of the school, he has his own past. Naturally, he doesn't listen to any rumors he hears, including the ones about Poppy. After meeting one day, Poppy determines to prevent having Grayson turned against her. And Grayson is determined to keep Poppy protected from the school and his past.

From a princess, Orabella lost everything on her 18th birthday. Her hometown was attacked, her father was brutally killed, and her mother and brother were imprisoned. Even she turned into an enslaved person to entertain others. And painfully, the one who contributed to Orabella's life to a dead end was her mate. What does Orabella have to do to get rid of a heartless man like Vincent while he threatens her family's life? After all that happened, will Orabella be able to forgive Vincent?

Do you have the guts to sleep with a sex spirit? They say that they will give you protection and much more and the only thing they need in return is sex with a young beautiful woman. Cassie Black is an ordinary girl who could never think of entering such an arrangement, but when horrors from her family's past threaten her life and the lives of her loved ones, she needs protection to discover the truth and make things right. The pleasures of sleeping with an incubus are addicting and otherworldly until she discovers her night visitor has a personality that revolves around more than only sex. Will she be able to remove the threat in her life? Or has she only created another problem by getting a secret night lover?

"I have to say I quite like the sound of my name on your lips," he bent over until they were face to face. He smiled at her as if to let that piece of crucial information sink in. Anelia's breath caught at his close proximity. "Come now, breathe Anelia. I have hardly started," butterflies and even more butterflies erupted in her stomach. Anelia Telford only cared about three things in her life; taking care of her sister, doing her job and staying off the radar. Being a loving and hardworking person she had no trouble keeping the former two in check. The latter? Well, that didn't exactly work out considering she ended up encountering a man whose comings and goings alone were a mystery at La Vida; the hotel she worked at. As if being manipulated by a whirlwind, her life gets entangled with Dexter Black's, a man she would have only used the words arrogant, annoying and sly to describe. But what happens when two people from two different tracks of life suddenly develop feelings beneath the dislike they have for each other? Will Anelia be able to handle the complications, manipulations and pain that come with loving a wealthy man such as Dexter. Find out in this heartwarming story where true love wins! *Unedited*

He's cold and ruthless and one of the most feared alphas in this new world where the werewolves rule. He cares about nothing, and no one can break through the formidable defence he's built around himself- that is until he met her! Nancy is just an average human girl and in this new world dominated by the werewolves, that's a code for 'target for lab rat'. An agency is taking the few surviving humans into custody for experimenting on genetic coding and gene modification. Problem is, she's been spotted on the agency's radar while snooping around and helping an injured wolf and now she needs protection from them. Throw in an alpha who's bent on paying his debt to her for more reasons than one by taking her under his protection, and buried secrets that will rear its ugly head soon and change every truth Nancy has ever known and you'll have yourself a story you'd want to read. Will their love story survive or will there be too much for either of them to handle.

Iris Maeve Hanson is a thousand-year-old tribrid running from her demons. So, when the heart-throb Dragon Alpha Alfonso Dominic McBlaze, who has been waiting a thousand years for his fated mate sets his eyes on her, all he sees is a wilding who doesn't look like being capable of ruling the shifters which is Dom's future. He asks his men to find everything about her with every intention to reject her. But what he finds about her, changes everything. With a newfound purpose in life to protect his tortured mate from her Psycho Werewolf Foster-Brother, finding no way out, Dom kidnaps Iris and brings her to his family castle. How will Iris take the news of a mate, when she has a huge secret weighing on her conscience? How will Dom help Iris heal mentally from a millennium of PTSD? Will their love survive when the villain is relentless and no moral boundary holds him? Is The Final War inevitable? * Read the unveiling of the deepest, darkest secrets as the past comes knocking on the door. Ride along on this crazy ride of supernatural animal shifters surrounded by vampires in a world of witches, magic, humans, werewolves, and most important of all DRAGONS! A ride of revenge, conspiracies, love, desire, passion, pleasure, pain, paranoia, and secrets. ~~TRIGGER WARNING!!!~~ This book may contain elements of war, torture, PTSD, and depression. It has some descriptions of gore, murder, sexual innuendoes, and psychopathic behaviors. Proceed with discretion.

DI SUBS ️ DULU AJA PASTINYA! BACA NANTI KALAU UDAH KEPO JUGA BOLEH ^^ ———————————————— Hidup Olivia yang semula manis kini berada dalam suatu tempat yang ia sebut api penyucian. Entah apa yang membuatnya menyebut frasa tersebut. Yang ia tahu kini ia sedang berdandan ayu di depan cermin di sebuah ruang make-up. Dengan rasa kesal yang membendung tinggi dalam hati dan benaknya. Bukankah seharusnya pengantin merasa bahagia ketika menyambut pernikahannya? “Ck! Menikah!?” decitnya sendiri ketika perias tersebut telah selesai menata wajah cantiknya itu. Pasalnya, Olivia tidak ingin menikah selama hidupnya. Ia hanya melihat dirinya menghabiskan waktu bersama anjingnya yang beranak-pinak dan berlarian di rumah besarnya. Uang? Punya. Rumah keren? Punya. Mobil? Lebih dari satu. Lantas mengapa Olivia menikah dengan laki-laki yang disebut super sempurna itu? *** Published in September 2021. Follow sosmed @novelbyreb dan akun author ya ^

To drown away her pain from a harsh breakup, Jayda went to a bar to get wasted. She met Sebastian Miller, The multimillionaire with the worst personality but incredibly sexy. She had a one night stand with him, creating a bond that binds them forever!