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Eliot Lacroix

THREADS OF VENGEANCE

Betrayed by her husband, Lily Ashton is left humiliated and alone, her reputation shattered after his affair with her glamorous step sister. On the brink of losing everything, even her life, Lily finds an unexpected lifeline in the form of Damien Hawke, a powerful and enigmatic billionaire with a dangerous secret — he is a vampire lord. In exchange for marriage, Damien offers her protection, financial security, and a chance to rebuild her life. But their marriage is a façade, a dark contract binding them together in a world of power and secrets. As Lily begins to regain her confidence and career, her world is turned upside down by Eliot Ashton, her estranged husband, and his manipulative sister Veronica, who will stop at nothing to destroy her. But the stakes rise even higher when she discovers that her marriage to Elliot is tied to an ancient vampire prophecy — one that could change both the human and vampire worlds forever. As their forced proximity sparks a slow-burn romance, Lily and Damien must confront their darkest fears and deepest desires. In a world where trust is fragile and loyalty is fleeting, Lily’s journey is one of survival, revenge, and an unbreakable will to protect her family. But as the final battle looms, a shocking betrayal threatens everything she’s fought for and she — and Damien - may be the key to saving them all… or condemning them to ruin. A story of a love that could either destroy or save them. Will Lily and Damien’s marriage survive the darkness? Or will the forces against them tear everything apart?
richmenphilipa · 1.8K Views

Diabolic Occult Of The Forsaken

[Previous Title: Travesty of 1959 (TO1959)] Ines Lacroix, the Lady of the Witching Hour who was hunted worldwide for decades. Someone like her… No one would believe that she had settled down, and grown into an old wrinkly woman who sold books for a living. From being a low-ranked member in an occult, a personnel under the Archduke, then a Saintess belonging to the Church of the Sun God, to finally having her face plastered everywhere and deemed a sinner. At first, Ines was flabbergasted at the accusations that flew her way one after another. Worst of all, all those whom she once knew believed the damned rumors and the papers—even her closest allies, and her lover, Regis Beaumont. During the pinnacle of her horrid reputation, horrified, Ines watched as the rumors came to life. Starting from mass genocide, arson, crimes against humanity, and dozens more—crimes and actions she had never committed were now tied with her name. But as time flew by, Ines had unknowingly accepted the rumors, and she became the person they made her out to be. “Ines,” Regis mumbled, a distraught look in his eyes, “You’ve changed.” Gently embracing the deformed spirit in her arms, she patted their little heads and smiled at him. “Have I?” — Excerpt: Ines watched as her sweet, beloved lover, Regis, held a blade to her neck. The poor man trembled like a feeble branch, unable to go through with his actions. “Do you hate me?” She softly asked, looking him in the eye. When he didn’t reply, she leaned closer to his blade. A thin red line appeared on her neck, and droplets of blood spilled onto the ground. Regis shook, and the corners of his eyes reddened as he helplessly dropped his blade. “No,” He murmured. A smile slowly crept up Ines’ face. Tears streamed down her face like a waterfall, and she threw herself at him. Muttering incoherent words, she wrapped her arms around him and wept. For a moment, Regis stood still. But, in the face of her tears, he crumbled and hugged her back. “I’m sorry, my love. I didn’t mean to hurt you.” “I know.” Ines watched as he defenselessly leaned into her arms, unaware of the looming dangers. Slowly, she raised a small dagger that she had previously hidden in her sleeve and aimed it at his heart. —— [This novel is participating in the 2023 WSA ] Discord: eudine Discord server: https://discord.gg/XKN7tJH88 [ON BREAK TILL OCTOBER 7, 2023!]
eudine · 214K Views

FORBIDDEN CROWN OF A FORGOTTEN PRINCE

A child out of wedlock? Half blood born? Misfortune child? What Am I? He was stripped as a crown Prince of Wisteria Palace after murdering his own mother the beloved queen of that nation and the woman his father loved the most Thalia. A war revoked and his safety was top priority during that time as the only child of the king and the queen. Nevertheless, both was found unconscious at the back gate of the palace among corspes of fallen knights. The queen was beheaded and her corspe was shredded apart by unknown animal while the crown Prince was badly injured to the head. Those two was found by the king's loyal substitute. He was the first to realized it was the crown prince that might gave a fatal blow to the queen as to her heart was missing. Bloodied palm and mouth soaked in blood. Due to that, Eliot abandoned by his majesty and forbid to speak a single word about who he is. Even so, the king did not execute Eliot as he wants due to old tradition that the one who will take the throne, is the one who eliminate the first in line of succession. Neglected and cast aside, he was lonely and could only look at his mother's grave from afar. His place was taken by his step brother. 3 years after the king marries his Mistress. He wishes to live quietly until his step brother turn to adult and kill him so he can atone his sin. After few incidents and bullying from the present crown primce, things made few turn when his step brother come to him and favor him as a friend. "I already have a favorite person, my sister" Carlos gaze made him uncomfortable. So he decided to leave him. But the crown prince understood his behavior and shouted before he could leave him. "An older brother would be nice," He gulped as he tried to hold his tear. Afraid that tear will rolled down his cheek, did not dare to turn his head, he ran away. His father soon witness how they got closer and warned the older brother to distant himself from a predator that will kill him. He doesn't needva forgivefull son as the next king. "aren't I enough? I eliminated the thing that will weakened neither you or me in the future, and yet you blamed me for it?" he had no expression as he spoke in the present of the king. "are you mad? Will you kill me?" The king raised his hand and slapped him. The hit has hard that it echoed within the throne room and his ring bleed his son's mouth. "promised to make my mother happy, and yet you welcome another woman behind her back? Marrying her not long after my mother died?" he didn't respond since what he said is true. "it's not my fault to be here. I'm standing in front of you was a fact of your failure your majesty, the great king of Wisteria, and a lover of my mother." The teenager boy laughed stating the facts with teary eyes. "wanna know the truth?" the king grit his teeth. He don't want to hit his son. That gaze, that eyes, belong to to his lover, that expression bitter expression was the same when he took her away from her lover. "she never loved you" The king hit him again to stop him from talking. "but I did. And you left me. Father"
KIKI_GERALD · 12.7K Views

egg and I .... winning the heart

1946, Betty McDonald’s whimsical autobiography was as popular as baked beans; now it’s almost completely forgotten, but, tellingly, still in print. Alas, after an hour or two with The Egg & I, it was excruciatingly obvious that Betty McDonald’s book is not a classic. On some weeks, there might be as many as five competing challenges for each nonfiction slot, but rarely as straightforward as this. Literary classics cluster on the north face of Parnassus. For this vertiginous terrain there are different sherpas. Italo Calvino says that a classic is “a book that has never finished what it wants to say”. Ezra Pound identifies “a certain eternal and irresponsible freshness”; TS Eliot, much more astringent, observed in The Sacred Wood that “no modern language can hope to produce a classic, in the sense I have called Virgil a classic”. Alan Bennett wryly notes: “Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.” Among nonfiction classics, the most treacherous category is that creature beloved of publishers – “the contemporary classic”. A second cousin to that notorious impostor is the “instant classic”. Such books will have been judged by slippery criteria: popular and literary critical fashion, a changing marketplace and new technology, bestseller lists and hype. In the past 100 years, a familiar palette of blurbish adjectives has given shape and colour to a moving target: provocative, outrageous, prophetic, groundbreaking, funny, disturbing, revolutionary, moving, inspiring, life-changing, subversive… a portrait of sir walter raleigh wearing a brocaded and beaded doublet The 100 best nonfiction books: No 99 – The History of the World by Walter Raleigh (1614) Read more This list raises another troubling question: is nonfiction “the new fiction”? There are some good writers who will argue that this is so, but I believe that nonfiction (which can sometimes successfully bring together many genres) is not, strictly speaking, a genre of its own. Creatively – yes – using narrative techniques borrowed from fiction, it’s possible to give certain kinds of nonfiction the aura of a distinct new genre. Yet, at the end of the day, “nonfiction” fractures into time-hallowed categories such as philosophy, memoir, history, reportage and poetry (see below), etc. This is particularly true of “nonfiction classics” from the 18th and 19th centuries, titles such as A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume or On Liberty by JS Mill. By that yardstick, a recent classic will be quite distinct, chiefly because its literary and cultural milieu is so different
Zabi_Khan_1535 · 2K Views

Nath and Seth

Seth Leone Cempaka dan Nathan Eliot adalah teman dekat dari kecil hingga banyak orang yang mengira mereka adalah anak kembar. Seth adalah lelaki yang tampan, ia merupakan kapten tim basket di sekolahnya, begitu populer dan dicintai, berbeda dengan Nath yang hanya memiliki Seth seorang dengan kepribadiannya yang cenderung tertutup. Seth dan Nath memiliki keistimewaan yang ajaib sekaligus menyakitkan, yaitu kemampuan mentransfer rasa pedih apabila salah satu dari mereka jatuh sakit. Karena keistimewaan itulah hubungan mereka semakin dekat hingga keduanya merasa benih-benih asmara. Walau malu-malu, Nath menerima apa yang ia rasa, ia mengakui rasa sukanya pada Seth. Namun, berbeda dengan Seth yang selalu berkilah, menolak dan membohongi hatinya. Suatu hari Seth dan Nath beradu mulut karena tiba-tiba Nath mengutarakan perasaannya pada Seth. Seth menolak mentah-mentah rasa cinta Nath dan pergi meninggalkan Nath ke acara prom night bersama Thalia. Seth tak sengaja meninggalkan kado untuk Thalia di rumah Nath, karena merasa bersalah, Nath menyusulnya ke acara itu. Namun, kejadian naas menimpa Nath. Ia tertabrak mobil yang membuatnya koma. Semenjak itu, hidup Seth terpukul, tiap detiknya terasa dihantui oleh kenangannya bersama Nath. Lantas, ia berteriak kepada Tuhan, meminta agar diberikan kesempatan kedua. Berjanji akan memberikan kehidupan yang layak untuk Nath. Walaupun mereka tak diizinkan bersama. Do'a Seth terkabulkan, ia kembali ke masa di mana dirinya masih berusia enam tahun, di mana ia harus mengubah masa depan Nath, tetapi itu tidak semudah yang ia bayangkan. Ia baru menyadari bahwa masa sekolah Nath sering dirundung dan dikucilkan, seketika Seth terasa ditampar. Yah, bagaimana bisa ia menyebut dirinya seorang sahabat bagi Nath. Seth membuang kesempatannya untuk bergabung di tim basket dan memilih ikut Nath dalam kelas merajut. Awalnya Seth menikmati kebersamaannya dengan Nath. Namun, ia merasakan tubuhnya kian memudar seiring waktu. Pada suatu hari Seth menemukan catatan harian Nath yang berisikan gambar seorang gadis berkuncir kuda bernama Maudy. Sekarang Seth sadar, kalau Nath mencintai dan bersama Maudy pada akhirnya. Maka dirinya akan menghilang. Namun, bukankah itu adalah kebahagiaan Nath? Seth merasa, jika Nath akan bahagia jika bersama Maudy ketimbang dirinya. Namun, sebelum Seth benar-benar menghilang. Nath mengungkapkan perasaan yang sebenarnya pada Seth. Jika ia tak mencintai Maudy, karena bagi Nath ia menyukai Seth seorang. Entah untuk masa lampau atau masa depan. Nath mengajak Seth untuk menghadiri acara prom night, awalnya Seth ragu. Namun, setelah dibujuk, Seth akhirnya setuju dengan satu syarat, yaitu tidak boleh menyebrang jalan sendirian. Acara prom night berjalan dengan lancar, mereka berdua menghabiskan malam dengan tawa dan kebahagiaan, tetapi tiba-tiba saja Nath terjatuh karena terpeleset di tangga. Tidak ada luka serius, hanya saja luka kecil yang perlu diobati. Seth berlari ke apotek terdekat untuk membeli Betadine dan handyplaster. Namun, dari arah seberang sebuah truk melaju kencang, Nath berlari ke arah Seth sembari berteriak parau. Nath dari arah belakang mencoba mendorong tubuh Seth, tetapi terlambat, mereka berdua tertabrak hingga terlempar sejauh lima meter. Tubuh Seth maupun Nath basah akan darah segar. Saat Seth berkedip ia berpindah ke sebuah tempat yang ia duga rumah sakit dengan Nath yang juga terbaring di sebelahnya. Menatap Seth dengan mata sembab." "Seth, apapun yang terjadi kemarin, besok, lusa dan masa depan. Aku senantiasa mencintaimu." "Terimakasih Seth, telah membuat hidupku dipenuhi pelangi. Namun, Seth, kembalilah ... diriku di dimensi yang berbeda membutuhkanmu. Biarkan Seth di sini beristirahat dalam keabadian."
Addiin · 3.9K Views

S T A R L E Y

Starley Scarletta Autumn biasa dipanggil Scarlet oleh teman-temannya. Ia adalah Si gadis ceria dan penuh semangat, ceroboh. Tapi ada tapinya nih ya, dia memiliki 1 rahasia besar yang bahkan hanya diketahui oleh segelintir orang saja termasuk 2 sahabatnya. Scarlet akan menjadi orang yang sangat berbeda apabila ia melepas kacamata yang tergantung indah di hidung mancungnya. Menjadi... Seseorang yang sangat perfeksionis, disiplin, sangat menghargai waktu, suka dengan keteraturan sehingga ia sangat membenci kesalahan kecil dalam hal apapun. Dengan kata lain kepribadian ganda? Yap! Benar sekali. Seorang Starley Scarletta Autumn itu memiliki kepribadian ganda. Hanya ada 1 kesamaan yang dimiliki oleh 2 kepribadian itu yaitu "Kejeniusan" nya 乁[ ◕ ᴥ ◕ ]ㄏ Eliot Winter Kiyyox biasa dipanggil es karena namanya Mengandung kata "musim dingin" tapi memiliki sifat yang bertolak belakang dengan makna musim dingin. Player? Ya. Duain cewek? Kurang! Tigain? Boleh lah tapi kalau bisa empatin atau lebih! Sebrengsek itulah seorang Eliot Winter Kiyyox. Pintar? Nilai aja jarang melewati angka 10. Tidak suka dengan keteraturan, SANGAT TIDAK PERFEKSIONIS. Tajir? Sudah Pasti! Tapi, entah bagaimana caranya, semesta mempertemukan dua orang yang sangat berbeda ini di tempat yang dinamakan "Sekolah" melalui sebuah insiden saat upacara bendera. Bagaimana cara seorang Eliot Winter Kiyyox menghadapi Starley Scarletta Autumn yang memiliki 2 kepribadian dalam dirinya? Terlebih lagi kepribadian lain yang dimiliki oleh Scarlet sangat bertolak belakang dengan Eliot? Apakah Eliot bisa menaklukkan kepribadian Scarlet yang lain?
SineClaa8 · 4.6K Views
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