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THE LAST DEAL: A Dark CEO Romance

She was sent to steal from him. He was supposed to never find out. Neither of them planned on the other. Isabella Reyes does not make mistakes. She is precise, trained, and coldly professional — the kind of woman who walks into rooms and reads them like blueprints, who knows exactly what she's doing and why, who has survived long enough in dangerous company to understand that sentiment is a luxury she cannot afford. When Theo Godman — billionaire, rival, and the most quietly dangerous man she has ever worked for — sends her to infiltrate the world of Zain Morgan, she accepts the terms. She has no choice. She never has a choice. The job is simple, on paper: get close, find the project, deliver it. Walk away clean. She does not expect Zain Morgan. She does not expect to feel anything. She feels everything. She hates herself for it. Zain Morgan has never been surprised. Surprise is what happens to people who haven't anticipated the move being made against them, and Zain anticipates everything — it is the architecture of his survival, the discipline that built the Morgan empire from old money and older intelligence into something the financial world orbits like a moon. When he identifies Isabella as Theo Godman's operative within four hours of meeting her, he does not feel outrage. He does not feel threatened. He feels, with the cold clarity of a man in full possession of himself and every room he stands in, the particular pleasure of a chess player who has seen the move twelve turns early. He will let her believe the path she is walking is hers. He will build every inch of it himself. What he does not anticipate — the thing that arrives without warning, without precedent, without any framework in his considerable experience to contain it — is that somewhere between the architecture and the execution, between the control and the calculation, Isabella Reyes stops being a variable and starts being something else. Something he does not have a precise clinical term for. Something that does not respond to management or containment or the cold, practiced restraint he has applied to every other threatening thing in his life. He does not know what to do with that. He has never not known what to do with something. He hates it with a ferocity that frightens him, privately, deeply. Almost as much as losing her would. THE LAST DEAL is the story of two people who are each trying to use the other — who are each, in their own precise and carefully defended ways, catastrophically bad at being used by someone they cannot stop thinking about. It is a dark story. It does not apologize for being dark. The characters make choices that are morally complicated and sometimes indefensible and always deeply, recognizably human — which is to say they make choices driven by fear and desire and pride and the particular desperation of people who want things they have decided they are not allowed to want. There is a theft. There is a betrayal. There is a board meeting, a lost empire, and a reckoning that neither of them survives unchanged. And there is, beneath all of it — beneath the strategy and the deception and the cold grey eyes and the coral red mouth and the thirty-one days counting down to everything falling apart — something that refuses to be managed or contained or filed away into the clinical privacy of a mind that has never met anything it couldn't control. Something that started in a ballroom and will end, one way or another, in ruin. The question is whose. Power. Obsession. Betrayal. And the specific, devastating danger of being truly known by the wrong person at exactly the right time. Some deals cannot be undone once signed. Some people cannot be unclaimed once chosen.
Daoist0SEgCi · 1.2k Views

Surviving The Beast World By Reading My Mates' Inner Thoughts

Faelyn died at twenty-seven because a deer went feral and decided she was the enemy. Waking up in a world where drop-dead gorgeous men turn into leopards and panthers should've been a fantasy come true. Except two rival chiefs are fighting over her like she's the last meal on earth, and a system named "Puffball" won't stop laughing at her predicament. One minute she's wrangling zoo animals, the next she's stuck between two beast clans forced to build their villages around the only surviving water source after a brutal drought. Cooperation or extinction: nature's cruelest group project. The problem? She's the fated mate of both chiefs. Roshan, the golden Leopard Chief, is bright-eyed and affectionate, already mentally decorating their future den. One smile and he's planning twelve cubs. Nyx, the brooding Panther Chief, is possessive and dramatic, fully prepared to murder anyone who breathes near her. Including Roshan. ESPECIALLY Roshan. Then Puffball grants her one invasive gift: the ability to hear their unfiltered thoughts. ~Roshan's brain: "She smiled at me! Time to hunt ten rabbits and start building a nursery..."~ ~Nyx's brain: "That spotted idiot touched her hand again. Truce or not, I'm going to..."~ Using zookeeper instincts and the world's most unhinged spoiler system, Faelyn has to survive beastworld politics, food shortages, jealous rivals, and two apex predators who can't share. She's just trying to keep everyone alive, stop a clan war, and not become dinner. But when both alphas start thinking about forever and cubs, Faelyn realizes survival isn't her only problem. It's why Puffball keeps giggling every time she insists she's only choosing one mate. The real question is: Can she survive what they're really thinking about her?
KiX_x_X · 23k Views
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The System Sent Me to Breed an All-Female Amazon Tribe

*Please, read this till the end; Trust me, this is not your regular repititive smut romance; When Benjamin Mark dies a lonely virgin after a lifetime of work and illness, mischievous gods grant him a steamy second chance in the fantasy world of Elyndor. Reborn with a handsome new body, infinite stamina, and a cheeky System designed to help him “enjoy life,” Benjamin stumbles into the hidden paradise of Verdant Spire—an ancient forest enclave inhabited solely by fierce, voluptuous Amazon warriors. These proud women, who normally venture out only to seek temporary mates, have never allowed a man to live among them… until now. Rescued and claimed by the passionate scout Sara, Benjamin quickly discovers that his arrival is seen as a divine gift. With the System unlocking tantalizing new abilities with every intimate encounter, he becomes the cherished center of an eager, all-female tribe—from attentive warriors to the commanding Queen herself. In a village where strength, beauty, and desire rule, one reincarnated man is about to fulfill every unspoken regret of his past life… one breathless night at a time. A sinful isekai harem fantasy of reincarnation, endless stamina, and the ultimate male wish-fulfillment. There's some Yuri in some chapters. I made sure to tag the chapters where I suddenly add some trope. The bonus chapters are where I dive deeper into some plots, and exploring world building, without slowing down the main story. Skip it if you only want Benjamin's journey, because there you might find flashbacks of other characters and history, which could include gore, NTR for other characters, or other things concerning the world building. Readers who skip bonuses still get the exclusive pure harem/power fantasy ride, while those who read them, who like the entire plot above smut, get richer side stories. I repeat, do not spend coins on bonus chapters if you only want Benjamin's journey and power fantasy. If you want a whole epic saga, then dive into the bonuses too and enjoy the story. Core harem (Amazons who love/claim the MC, fairies like Clay who confess, sluts who abandon old lives for him) stays 100% loyal—no desires elsewhere, and no cheating. That's the promise I made. If you're looking for 100% exclusive loyalty from the actual love interests, it's all there—no worries. I appreciate the support from everyone enjoying the ride! Note; The Author is a super nice person. If you want to drop reasonable suggestions or advise, they're open. But please note; if you insult, abuse, or accuse them, they will defend themselves. Some folks literally pop up and say horrible stuff because the story was not THEIR story. Please, let us coexist in peace. I love peace. But if it's war, though we'll not like it, yeah; come abuse the Author.
Vine_Sunday · 1m Views

Oops! my baby daddy is now a ruthless Mafia Lord.

For once, in all her twenty-five years of existence, Aria had never imagined she would be imprisoned in a place she once called home. **** Aria's life as a Mafia heiress shattered the moment she discovered she was pregnant. Despite everything, she chose to keep the child....she wanted to give birth, to protect the life growing inside her. But instead of support, she was cast out by her own family. She left her father's house with nothing but determination. And just as she was about to board a plane....her escape to freedom, to a new life for herself and her unborn child..... She was kidnapped. At first, she thought she would die at the hands of her father's enemies. That this was the price of being born into blood and power. But then she realized the truth. She hadn't been taken to be killed. She had been bought and not by just anyone. She was brought before the father of her child....the lowly man she once knew, now became something dangerous. A Mafia Lord. The same position her father once held. The same territory. The same mansion. Only now, everything had changed. Her father...the former Mafia Lord was dead as well as her stepsister. And the man standing before her, Damien, was the one who had taken it all. A revenge. Aria believed she should have been killed along with them but instead of death, Damien granted her life. A life bound within the walls of her former home with a price attached to it. A life where she would remain in her father's mansion, forced to accept Damien as the new Mafia Lord… whether she liked it or not all while discover secrets which had been long buried. ****" This novel contains 18+ scenes and when I say 18+, I mean raw, unfiltered ones. It also includes gore, crime, and references to hard drugs. If this isn't your cup of tea, kindly explore other novels.
BLUE_WAVY_ · 15.6k Views

Let Me Ascend

When the Hierarch of a fractured Pacific Northwest Consilium dies of causes that do not fit his physiology, the Awakened community he governed begins tearing itself apart — three Orders, one power vacuum, and a question nobody wants to ask aloud about what he found in the moments before he died. Into this, almost incidentally, steps Culthul A'scar. He holds no official rank. He attends every meeting. He votes with careful procedural conscientiousness and goes home afterward to make tea and look at the rain. The Silver Ladder lists him as one of their own. Nobody looks at him twice. Nobody knows that Culthul A'scar exists at the level the Watchtowers point toward but cannot name — a being of I source of everything, for whom the Orders are taxonomy, the Lie is a narrative function, and the entire architecture of the World of Darkness is a constructed system he sees completely and has chosen, deliberately and genuinely, to walk inside anyway. He chose humanity. He chose wanting. He chose to care about this city and its petty institutional fractures and its dead Hierarch who was brave enough to look over the edge of everything and write down what he found there. Now someone wants that finding buried. Culthul A'scar has decided it should not be. Let Me Ascend is a political thriller about power, institutional corruption, and the most sovereign act available to an infinite being — the choice to show up, to attend, to care about outcomes that do not require your caring. It is about what a man was before he became what he is, and whether the distance between those two things can ever be crossed in the direction of return.
DownHyperMan · 2.6k Views