Lavanda Riz

One day I said "I love you" to him, and he laughed in my face, throwing a phrase that still sticks in my heart. For seven years I tried to put him out of my mind, and when I almost succeeded, my sister managed to get engaged to him. I thought he wouldn't recognize me as the ugly duckling he had rejected back then. I would never dare to interfere with my sister's happiness. On the contrary, I tried to build a relationship with someone else, but what happened a week before their wedding changed everything. I never thought that a frank conversation with my first love would lead to such unexpected consequences and that his eyes the color of a stormy sea would look at me differently...

– What are you staring at me for? Got nothing else to say? - My audacity is off the charts, today. But what else is a nineteen-year-old girl supposed to do in this middle-of-nowhere? Only to annoy my intellectual neighbor trying to prevent a famous plastic surgeon from getting a post divorce depression. – "I swear to god, I’ve never wanted to strangle a woman, but I’m getting really close here" he says through gritted teeth, "Even my ex-wife didn't drive me to such a frenzy! Mia, I forbid you to come near me, talk to me, or even look in my direction! - Oh, boo-hoo, how scary. What are you gonna do, Mr. Edgar So-and-so, if I do lavish you with my attention? Pout at me, like a noble princess? - "You'll see," he squints his beautiful green eyes angrily. You have to admit, he provoked me...

- "Arrogant bastard! Apollo on steroids! Even if you were the last man on earth, I would never look at you!" I tremble with rage, clutching my broken phone in my hand. It's good that it wasn't my heart. - "It's nice to know that the doll-faced trouble will stay away from me," this idiot, the son of my stepmother's another lover, snarls back. Usually her love affairs don't last long, and I was already glad that I would never see this rude man again. And there you have it! My stepmother, whom I love very much, has suddenly decided to get married, which means that I will see this dumbhead from time to time. And I'm not sure I'll be able to stay sane around him, because after our kiss "on a dare" everything in my life went to hell!

Anne grew up among pirates, under the watchful eye of her foster brothers, a free, proud girl. Space vagabonds are a desperate people and the only thing they despise is the soldiers of the Empire. But how can she tell her brothers that due to a ridiculous mistake she became the wife of an officer of the Empire they hate? How do you deal with a bossy ex-boyfriend and a current boyfriend who doesn't even realize what he's gotten himself into? How to prevent them from finding out about each other's existence and, most importantly, how to force yourself not to think about the prophecy of the creepy monk?

- "You like him. Does he like you?", Jan's hard line of lips curves into a kind of indulgent smile. He's happy that he scares me, that I can't answer him as boldly. "You want to add a broken heart to all your problems? Why are you girls so stupid?" he stands close, enjoying my panic. - "What do you care? You don't know me," I finally exhale. - "But I know my brother very well," the vibration from his low voice causes another wave of trembling, and his commanding touch to my chin with his cold fingers cuts off my oxygen. If only I had known that he would be right and that I would have only one chance to save my ruined life...

- What are you doing in my bedroom? Maxim appeared so unexpectedly, and before I change my mind out of fright, I exhale, full of determination: - I want to be yours tonight! - "Yanina," surprise slid across the handsome man's face in a smeared shadow, leaving a condescending smile on his tender lips, "I don't want to feel like a bastard later, there can't be any relationship between us." - "You said that I could ask you for anything. I want to feel like I'm in the arms of an experienced man, to know what it's like, because you know what can happen tomorrow," I'm nervous, but I don't look away in hope of seeing the ghost of his feelings for me in those eyes. - "Okay, you will spend this night with me. But I will have one condition - don't fall in love with me. Is that a deal?"

Many people think that our story started in college, but in fact it didn't, it started much earlier. A broke honors student in worn-out jeans and a privileged brat, half-brothers related by our parents' marriage. With him, I learned that love and hate are two sides of the same coin, two facets of one passion for two, which we have never been able to curb. Love for him is my most risky test, my torture, my sin. It turns out that he was so afraid of our love that he decided to choose my hatred. He changed me. And now I will never let anyone break my heart again... The first part of the dilogy.

Today my beloved smiles gently at me, but tomorrow he will be a completely different, tough and arrogant guy. Even and odd days have become my nightmare, as well as the fact that my fiance is a witcher and I have to come to terms with this devil. But that was not all. Unwittingly, I started falling in love with this other guy, bossy, impudent, but so smart and sometimes funny. And to break this triangle, I need to go, sacrifice my love and save at least one of them. The first book of the dilogy. "Against All Odds and Forever" is the second part.

It's hard to take your eyes off him. Incredibly smart, strong, fast, dangerous - he looks like an ordinary guy, but there is nothing ordinary about him. It was supposed to be a silly birthday joke, but the parallel of our world turned out to be no joke at all. Water and healthy women are more valuable than life here, and the remnants of humanity are confronted by a new kind of human creature - mutants. Everyone calls him Spider, some people are afraid of him, others hate him, but he did the impossible for me because he is also capable of loving tenderly and selflessly. But I don't agree with his decision...

61. "The Pack" My name is Nicole and I'm a werewolf. And as if that wasn't enough, I was born an alpha. I want to tell you a story about what it's like to be me. We have been living among you for a long time, but we live by different laws. In order to protect those who have become dear to me, I am not afraid to fight a leader who does not accept me into the pack. I'm not even that worried about the alliance of fanatics that has me cornered. But I'm afraid that we choose a mate once and for all, and my inner wolf has suddenly fallen for someone who is dangerous to love. Anyway, make yourself comfortable, I'll show you my world…

Do I believe in love at first sight? No, I don't. Because the first time we met, this man looked at me with cold disdain, as if I were an empty space. I could not even think that one day I would dream of his touch and kisses. I'm not allowed to fall in love with him. After all, I came into Chris Marlowe's life... to destroy him! First book in the series.